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David Starkey on historians and film adaptions - Hay 09 Speaker Interviews

May 2009

Speakers: David Starkey

Historian David Starkey talks to Lisa Dwan about the modern historians he admires, and discusses the concept that civilisations in decay produce the best historians. He explains an earlier comment that England was better governed under Henry VIII than under Gordon Brown, and talks briefly about the adaptation of history in films.

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