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What on earth has happened to Simon Schama: The Romantics and Us reviewed

12 September 2020

9:00 AM

12 September 2020

9:00 AM

The Romantics and Us

BBC2, Friday

‘You may think our modern world was born yesterday,’ said Simon Schama at the beginning of The Romantics and Us. If you do, though, I can only imagine that you’ve never seen any history documentaries on television — where, as a rule, the modern world is born in whatever period the documentary happens to be about, from Ancient Rome to the 1980s.

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