2016
1 Season
7.6
Documentary
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
Episodes
E1Jun 16, 20161h
Marx
Bettany begins her journey in the city of Trier on the banks of the Mosel in Germany. It was here on the 5 May 1818 that Karl Marx, one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century was born.
E2Jun 23, 20161h
Nietzsche
Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
E3Jun 30, 20161h
Freud
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
Top Cast
Bettany Hughes
Self - Presenter
