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Mark Steel Lectures Series Two
Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Broadcast
- 2004 (29 mins)
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...
Mark Steel Lectures Series One
Leonardo Da Vinci
- Broadcast
- 2004 (29 mins)
Leonardo Da Vinci Creator of some of the greatest works of art in human history, but at the same time barely able to finish them, Leonardo is possibly the most easily distracted genius who ever lived. Mark...
Mark Steel Lectures Series Two
Mary Shelley
- Broadcast
- 2004 (29 mins)
Mary Shelley Like Dr Frankenstein himself, Mark Steel has taken the cold-cuts of the traditional TV lecture and brought it back to life with passion and electricity. Taking as its subjects both the book for...
Mark Steel Lectures Series Two
Thomas Paine
- Broadcast
- 2004 (29 mins)
Thomas Paine Surely Britain’s greatest unknown international revolutionary best-selling author and hobbyist bridge builder, Norfolk born corset-maker’s son Thomas Paine wrote the Rights of Man and helped...
Mark Steel Lectures Series Two
Sylvia Pankhurst
- Broadcast
- 2004 (29 mins)
Sylvia Pankhurst Tracing her life from schooldays in radical Manchester to retirement in rural Essex, when Haile Selassie occasionally came to call, Sylvia Pankhurst the revolutionary and Rastafarian...
Mark Steel Lectures Series Two
Albert Einstein
- Broadcast
- 2004 (29 mins)
Albert Einstein A great physicist but a lousy father, Einstein played with the nature of space and time as easily as he did his beloved violin. Mark Steel grapples with the fundamental nature of the Universe...
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...