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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
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 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
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
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
Karl Marx
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Karl Marx biography
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
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
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
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,...
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