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
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
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
November 26, 2004 • 30m
Surely Britain’s greatest unknown international revolutionary, best-selling author and hobbyist bridge builder, Norfolk born corse...Read more
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
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