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3
Season 3 Feb 23, 2006
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3 - 1Oliver Cromwell Feb 23, 2006 -
3 - 2Charlie Chaplin Mar 02, 2006
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3 - 3Rene Descartes Mar 09, 2006
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3 - 4Geoffrey Chaucer Mar 16, 2006
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3 - 5Harriet Tubman Mar 23, 2006
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3 - 6Ernesto 'Che' Guevara Mar 30, 2006
2
Season 2 Nov 05, 2004
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2 - 1Ludwig van Beethoven Nov 05, 2004
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2 - 2Leonardo da Vinci Nov 12, 2004
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2 - 3Mary Shelley Nov 19, 2004
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2 - 4Thomas Paine Nov 26, 2004
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2 - 5Sylvia Pankhurst Dec 03, 2004
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2 - 6Albert Einstein Dec 10, 2004
1
Season 1 Oct 07, 2003
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1 - 1Lord Byron Oct 07, 2003
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1 - 2Isaac Newton Oct 14, 2003
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1 - 3Sigmund Freud Oct 21, 2003
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1 - 4Aristotle Oct 28, 2003
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1 - 5Charles Darwin Nov 04, 2003
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1 - 6Karl Marx Nov 11, 2003
Overview
Mark Steel traces the history of Greek Philosophy from Pythagoras (“never ate beans”), to Plato (“old and bald”), to Aristotle (“made lists of Olympic champions for fun, and possibly a bugger for the bottle, or possibly not”). The lecture takes in all the important areas of classical philosophy, including ethics, Sue Barker, whether the Four Tops are really the Four Tops at all, incontinence and Jim Davidson, ballooning, and why Aristotle would have disapproved of Orange marches. Filmed at the Parthenon and across Athens, Mark Steel brings you the Aristotle that history has forgotten; the one that liked a pretty girl, a shop full of beds and a KFC, and just maybe a drink as well.
Year 2006
Studio BBC Four
Director
Popularity 0.3994
Language English
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