Month / April 2016

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  • The Independent’s Review of Simon Schama: The Obliterators (BBC Radio 4)

    This was Schama at his best: assertive, reflective, utterly righteous, and able to make you look differently, if not sympathetically, at the folly of humankind.   Fiona Sturges reviews Simon Schama: The…

  • Review of Optimism – Our Enemy (BBC Radio 4)

    This is an exceptionally well put together programme – one that should be repeated every few years as a corrective to the prevailing direction of high-five culture David Hepworth previews Optimism –…

  • Press Archive

    The Telegraph 6.5.15 Napoleon: The Man and the Myths. “Extracts from Napoleon’s diaries are read and passages from letters by William Cobbett and Madame de Stael, his disapproving contemporaries, are given careful voice…