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Eric Hobsbawm on jazz and historiography - Hay 09 Speaker Interviews

May 2009

Speakers: Eric Hobsbawm

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Historian Eric Hobsbawm, while sharing his thoughts on Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the future of Jazz and the changing trends in historiography, discusses the importance of the International Communist Movement as as historical phenomenom, his first hand experience of the "period of uncertainty" during his youth, and his view on the ability of the human race to solve the major problems it confronts, in this interview with Lisa Dwan.

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