Simon Schama

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

Historian, New Yorker contributor and BBC personality Simon Schama, with Volume III of his history of Britain, 1776-2000, "Fate of Empire."

Music: Restoration Soundtrack composer James Newton Howard

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