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12/03/2010

Duration:: 10 minutes

First broadcast:: Friday 12 March 2010

Simon Schama reflects that when times are hard people seem to prefer tough leaders who knock heads together to mild-mannered conciliators.

SIMON SCHAMA AND CLIVE JAMES

Simon Schama and his fellow A Point of View presenter Clive James in Cambridge in the early 1970s.
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