Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
Genius of the Modern World (Season 1)
Marx (Episode 1) 8.5
Air date: 2016-06-16
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Nietzsche (Episode 2) 9.0
Air date: 2016-06-23
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
Freud (Episode 3)
Air date: 2016-06-30
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
