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Equality
Episode 2 of 3
Simon Schama explores how artists and writers have led the fight for equality, generating empathy and mobilising resistance against injustice.
Simon Schama explores the artists at the vanguard of the fight for equality in the decades after the Second World War. He revisits his childhood as a Jewish boy in Southend and his memories of seeing James Baldwin debate William Buckley at the Cambridge Union, explores the story behind Nina Simone's classic civil rights song Mississippi Goddam, and meets Coleman Woodson Junior, who was part of the historic Selma to Montgomery march in 1965.
Last on
Christmas Eve 202202:15
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"It’s jaw-droppingly ludicrous"
Duration: 01:41
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Nina Simone
Mississippi Goddam (Album Version)
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Agnes Obel
Riverside
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Agnes Obel
Falling, Catching
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Simon Schama |
| Director | Hugo Macgregor |
| Executive Producer | Nicolas Kent |
| Executive Producer | Charlotte Sacher |
| Production Company | Oxford Film and Television |
