Human Intelligence

Episode
Disruptors: Martin Luther
Broadcast Info
2025 (14 mins)
Description
Luther’s vivid, wild words - powered by new printing technology - set in motion a chain reaction that split the Catholic Church, powered the Reformation and changed the world forever. Naomi Alderman meets this determined thinker. Famously, Luther walked up to a church in a backwater town and nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door. The son of a metal smelter, he knew how rough and dangerous life could be; and he was prepared to question, argue and openly insult powerful authorities in defence of his explosive theology.
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History

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The Open University, "Human Intelligence". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/251785 (Accessed 07 Nov 2025)