A History of Britain: The Two Winstons (1910 - present)

SYNOPSIS

Simon Schama tackles the 20th century through the lives of two men, Winston Churchill and George Orwell. Both men, so very different in almost every way, lived through and wrote about the key moments of British 20th-century life: the Depression, Empire, two world wars and the Cold War. What unites them, argues Schama, is one shared theme - forget history at your peril.