Eric Hobsbawm: The Consolations of History

Synopsis

In this feature-length documentary, Anthony Wilks traces the connections between the events of Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told, from his teenage years in Germany as Hitler came to power and his communist membership, to the jazz clubs of 1950s Soho and the makings of New Labour, taking in Italian bandits, Peruvian peasant movements and the development of nationalism in the modern world, with help from the assiduous observations of MI5.

Cast

Eric Hobsbawm

Self

Frances Stonor Saunders

Self

Richard J. Evans

Self

John Foot

Self

Stefan Collini

Self

Donald Sassoon

Self

Marlene Hobsbawm

Self

Anthony Wilks

Self - Narrator (voice)