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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,...