• Air date: 16 Jun '16 3 episodes
      Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
  • List of Episodes (3)
    • 1. Marx

      16 Jun '16
      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. Episode 2

      23 Jun '16
    • 3. Episode 3

      30 Jun '16