Archive for October 18th, 2008
The American Future: A History
As part of my ongoing effort to become the world’s most boring person (I’m jesting) I have been watching Simon Schama’s The American Future: A History which has been on BBC2 on Friday’s at 9pm. Happily enough if you prefer to watch Little Britain and Have I Got News For You you can catch up on the first episode now on BBC’s iPlayer (it’ll only be there for another week or so.)
It’s been fascinating so far, to understand a bit more of the history of this relatively young nation and some of the forces within it that have been there from the outset of the founding of the republic through to this very day.
I understand that Schama is a donor to the Democrat party and the Obama campaign, but watching the programme anybody with a bit of thought process in their head would spot the leanings in the programme that seemingly favour the Democrat point of view, opposed to the Republican.
Anyway highly recommended all the same.
I’m off to walk to Chanctonbury Ring now 
