• Air date: 05 Aug '15 3 episodes
      Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy - Buddha, Socrates and Confucius.
  • List of Episodes (3)
    • 1. Buddha

      05 Aug '15
      Bettany Hughes travels to India to investigate the revolutionary ideas of the Buddha.
    • 2. Socrates

      12 Aug '15
      Bettany Hughes is in Greece, on the trail of the influential maverick thinker Socrates.
    • 3. Confucius

      19 Aug '15
      Bettany Hughes visits China on the trail of Confucius, a great sage of Chinese history.