Genius of the Modern World - Season 1
Episode List
E1 - Marx
Aired: 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.
E2 - Nietzsche
Aired: June 23, 2016
Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.
E3 - Freud
Aired: June 30, 2016
Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.