It is hard to express in words how much I have enjoyed, learnt from, and been moved emotionally by many of the Revisionist History episodes across all three series. To Malcolm Gladwell and the team of people who bring many talents together with Malcolm to bring us Revisionist history, I send you a heart-felt thank you.
The music is the most obvious delight apart from Malcolm's words, and I am sure that there is a lot of background work that we don't see, so thank you to the unseen/unheard folks too.
Several of the episodes have given me a much more real sense of what racism was like in the 1950's and 1960's in the USA, and have left me speechless and needing to take a long walk along the river to return to a calm centred place.
This morning I listened to another one of them "The Hug Heard Around The World". Amazingly insightful, pulling together a few seemingly unrelated strings of thought until they meet with the punch in the gut of the appalling "roast" of Sammy Davis Junior led by his "friend" Dean Martin. Time for another long walk.
Revisionist History is not easy listening; it tackles some very difficult subjects in a way that I get to understand them viscerally as well as intellectually. That is very rare.
So I say again, to Malcolm and team, Thank You!