Mark Steel Lectures Series Two
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- Episode
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Broadcast Info
- 2004 (29 mins)
- Description
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
Mark Steel turns up the volume on Beethoven with his tribute to a man who was the nearest eighteenth-century Vienna got to not only Jimi Hendrix, but also Captain Sensible. Unflinchingly exposing Ludwig’s anger management issues and his dependence on Ceefax’s 888 subtitle service, Mark Steel sets Beethoven in his revolutionary context and reveals the quirks of his character the history books gloss over.
Taking in the revolutionary nature of the Freemasons, Haydn’s contractual similarity to Prince, Beethoven’s unusual fondness for semi-hemiemisemiquavers and his love-hate relationship with Napoleon, the Mark Steel Lectures once again combines unique reconstructions with inventive graphics to bring Beethoven right up to the minute.
Adapted from the successful Radio 4 series, and filmed on location in Vienna.
Beethoven Vienna 18th Century anger management Ceefax subtitles character quirks Freemasons Haydn Napoleon - Genre
- History; Philosophy; Comedy
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The Open University, "Mark Steel Lectures Series Two". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/6894 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)