During March 2018, British-Nigerian historian and BAFTA award-winning presenter and filmmaker David Olusoga visited the National Museum of Scotland as part of the BBC’s Civilisations Festival.

Inspired by Kenneth Clark’s ground-breaking BBC series Civilisation from 1969, BBC Two’s nine-part series Civilisations introduces a new generation to great masterworks of beauty and ingenuity.

In this talk, David Olusoga, one of the three presenters of the new series, asks ‘can TV still do that magical thing of bringing people to a place where they believe history and art is for them?’