About this season
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
Episodes (3)
E1
1. Marx
8.5Aired 16 June 2016 • 60 min
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.
E2
2. Nietzsche
9.0Aired 23 June 2016 • 60 min
Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
E3
3. Freud
Aired 30 June 2016 • 60 min
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.