3 episodes

Genius of the Modern World - Season 1

First aired Jun 16, 2016Season 1

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Episodes

Episode 1

Marx

8.5

Jun 16, 201660 min2 votes

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.

Episode 2

Nietzsche

9.0

Jun 23, 201660 min2 votes

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

Episode 3

Freud

Jun 30, 201660 min

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