← Genius of the Modern World

Season 1

3 episodes · 2016

  1. 1Marx

    16 Jun 2016 · 1 hr 0 min

    8.5 (2)

    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.

  2. 2Nietzsche

    23 Jun 2016 · 1 hr 0 min

    9.0 (2)

    Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.

  3. 3Freudfinale

    30 Jun 2016 · 1 hr 0 min

    Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.