Five Minutes With: Simon Schama

25 March 2011 Last updated at 21:19 ET Help

Historian Simon Schama talks to Matthew Stadlen about his "fruity" writing style, his love for cooking, how he wrote his first historical work at the age of seven, and why he dances like a cross between John Travolta and David Brent.

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