Double triumph for Simon Schama’s The Story of the Jews

Last night the Sandford St Martin Trust announced that the BBC’s The Story of the Jews scooped two top accolades at its annual broadcast awards. ‘Over the Rainbow’ – episode four of the five-part series – won both the Sandford St Martin Television Award and the Radio Times Readers Award. The series, presented by Simon Schama and produced by Oxford Film and Television for BBC Two, took a personal look at 3,000 years of Jewish history.