Genius of the Modern World - Season 1

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Marx

1 - Marx

Air Date: June 16, 2016

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

2 - Nietzsche

Air Date: June 23, 2016

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

Freud

3 - Freud

Air Date: June 30, 2016

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