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Genius of the Modern World
Marx
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world: Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. Born in the C19th, they lived through a time, when...
Genius of the Modern World
Nietzsche
- Broadcast
- 2016 (60 mins)
The 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most brilliant and dangerous minds of the 19th century. His uncompromising and often brutal ideas smashed the comfortable presuppositions and...
Genius of the Modern World
Freud
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world. This time she travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud - the father of psychoanalysis....
Can Britain Have a Pay Rise?
Can Britain Have a Pay Rise?
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
One hundred workers who represent all levels of pay face one another to discuss why Britain has a low pay problem and what needs to be done to give everyone a pay rise. Presented by James O’Brien and Steph...
Exodus Our Journey to Europe
Exodus Our Journey to Europe - Ep1
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
In 2015, we gave cameras to some of the million people who smuggled themselves into Europe, to record the places where no-one else can go. The result is a terrifying, intimate, epic portrait of the migration...
Exodus Our Journey to Europe
Exodus Our Journey to Europe - Ep2
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
In 2015, we gave cameras to some of the million people who smuggled themselves into Europe, to record the places where no-one else can go. The result is a terrifying, intimate, epic portrait of the migration...
Exodus Our Journey to Europe
Exodus Our Journey to Europe - Ep3
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
In 2015, we gave cameras to some of the million people who smuggled themselves into Europe, to record the places where no-one else can go. The result is a terrifying, intimate, epic portrait of the migration...
Genius of the Ancient World
Socrates
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
In this second Episode, Bettany investigates the revolutionary ideas of Socrates. Socarate was born in Athens during a creative, yet extremely tumultuous period of Greek history. Athens had given birth to...
Genius of the Ancient World
Buddha
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
In this first episode Bettany Hughes investigates the revolutionary ideas of the Buddha. In his 20s the Buddha abandoned his family and homeland in the foothils of the Himalayas to embark on an ambitious...
Genius of the Ancient World
Confucius
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
In this 3rd episode, Bettany investigates the game-changing ideas of Confucius. Confucius is considered the first Chinese thinker to take a systematic, philosophical approach to the social, political and...