I encourage anyone reading this on New Year’s day to watch Simon Schama’s BBC TV series called “History Now”
Schama is always a compelling presenter but in this series, he is more than a messenger, offering something of a call to arms as he emotionally recounted memories of watching Václav Havel address crowds of Czech protestors on television, and considered that today we appear to be at a historical crossroads of our own. He self-identifies as “an old man [ like me ,who doesn’t] want to die with the world selling its soul down that particular crummy river” of political apathy-especially in relation to climate breakdown and loss of biodiversity.
The argument that creatives are at the forefront of revolution is a convincing one that carries as a refrain throughout the series, which later looks at Nina Simone, James Baldwin and nature writer Rachel Carson as well as featuring interviews with Armando Iannucci and Margaret Atwood.
Shades of ILikeTrains and its recourse to history rock(or pop) with songs like “He Who Saw the Deep and The Shallows.
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