Season 1 (2003)

Lord Byron
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October 7, 2003 • 30m

Mark Steel follows the glorious life of Lord Byron from his birth just off Oxford Street in London to his death in Greece thirty-s...Read more

Isaac Newton
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October 14, 2003 • 30m

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 ...Read more

Sigmund Freud
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October 21, 2003 • 30m

With a life measured out in cigar-cutters and cocaine wraps, Sigmund Freud was clearly a genius. Here was a man who looked around ...Read more

Aristotle
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October 28, 2003 • 30m

Mark Steel traces the history of Greek Philosophy from Pythagoras (“never ate beans”), to Plato (“old and bald”), to Aristotle (“m...Read more

Charles Darwin
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November 4, 2003 • 30m

Delving further, and more imaginatively, into the evolution of Charles Darwin than ever before, the Mark Steel Lecture takes this ...Read more

Karl Marx
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November 11, 2003 • 30m

As he moved from Paris to London, Marx managed to leave a trail of uncleaned rooms and even more untidy relationships in his wake....Read more