Documentary
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.
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23 Jun, 2016
S1.E2Nietzsche
Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
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S1.E1Marx
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.
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