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  • Mark Steel Lectures Series One

    Charles Darwin

    Broadcast
    2003 (29 mins)

    Delving further, and more imaginatively, into the evolution of Charles Darwin than ever before, the Mark Steel Lecture takes this modern hero off the ten pound note and into the present day. We follow him...

  • Mark Steel Lectures Series One

    Aristotle

    Broadcast
    2003 (29 mins)

    Mark Steel traces the history of Greek Philosophy from Pythagoras ("never ate beans") to Plato ("old and bald") to Aristotle ("made lists of Olympic champions for fun, and possibly a bugger for the bottle,...

  • Mark Steel Lectures Series One

    Sigmund Freud

    Broadcast
    2003 (29 mins)

    A life measured out in cigar-cutters and cocaine wraps, Sigmund Freud was clearly a genius. Here was a man who looked around the word at the start of the twentieth century, saw brutal Empires, millions being...

  • Mark Steel Lectures Series One

    Isaac Newton

    Broadcast
    2003 (29 mins)

    He was a scientist who thought he could turn lead into gold. He was an obsessive with a secret Swiss boyfriend. And, in the world of the Mark Steel Lectures, he likes Alphabetti Spaghetti and the...

  • Mark Steel Lectures Series One

    Lord Byron

    Broadcast
    2003 (29 mins)

    Mark Steel follows the glorious life of Lord Byron from his birth just off Oxford Street in London to his death in Greece thirty-six years later. We see Byron on the beach, Byron and his pet bear and Byron...

  • Mark Steel Lectures Series One

    Karl Marx

    Broadcast
    2003 (29 mins)

    Karl Marx biography

  • Civil War

    The Breakdown

    Broadcast
    2002 (28 mins)

    Dr Tristram HUNT pres 1/4 pt new historical doc series re English-Civil War of 1640s & fraught relations betw England, Scotland & Ireland. The arrogant religious policies of Charles 1 divide England &...

  • Civil War

    Taking Sides

    Broadcast
    2002 (29 mins)

    Series on the English Civil War of the 1640s w Dr Tristram HUNT. How events across the Irish sea accelerated war in England as the relationship between Parliament & king collapsed, dividing the country into...

  • Civil War

    Total War

    Broadcast
    2002 (29 mins)

    History prog. CROMWELL’s victory at Marston Moor secured his rise to power, while, in Scotland, the so-called ‘English-Civil-War’ degenerated into a brutal clan feud between the MacDonalds & Campbells.

  • Civil War

    The Endgame

    Broadcast
    2002 (29 mins)

    While the King is held to ransom by Parliament,CROMWELL’s New Model Army is in Putney debating radical proposls. Charles escapes & reignites war w help of the Scots. A second civil war erupts in England,...