Season 2 (2004)

Ludwig van Beethoven
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November 5, 2004 • 30m

Mark Steel turns up the volume on Beethoven with his tribute to a man who was the nearest eighteenth-century Vienna got to not onl...Read more

Leonardo da Vinci
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November 12, 2004 • 30m

Creator of some of the greatest works of art in human history, but at the same time barely able to finish them, Leonardo is possib...Read more

Mary Shelley
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November 19, 2004 • 30m

Like Dr Frankenstein himself, Mark Steel has taken the cold-cuts of the traditional TV lecture and brought it back to life with pa...Read more

Thomas Paine
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November 26, 2004 • 30m

Surely Britain’s greatest unknown international revolutionary, best-selling author and hobbyist bridge builder, Norfolk born corse...Read more

Sylvia Pankhurst
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December 3, 2004 • 30m

Tracing her life from schooldays in radical Manchester to retirement in rural Essex, when Haile Selassie occasionally came to call...Read more

Albert Einstein
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December 10, 2004 • 30m

A great physicist but a lousy father, Einstein played with the nature of space and time as easily as he did his beloved violin. Ma...Read more