As the major new BBC arts history series Civilisations is due to air, we speak to Simon Schama, one of its three presenters, to discuss the making of the series and how he was inspired by Kenneth Clark’s original.

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Sir Simon Schama

Simon Schama is a historian, television presenter and professor of art history and history at Columbia University, New York

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