The Face Of Britain: The Nation Through Its PortraitsSimon Schama brings Britain to life through its portraits, as seen in the five part BBC series The Face of Britain and the major National Portrait Gallery exhibition Churchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough watching his daughters run after a butterfly; a black Othello in the nineteenth century; the poet artist Rossetti trying to capture on canvas what he couldn't possess in life; a surgeon artist making studies