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  • 2016-06-16T20:00:00Z on BBC Four
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  • 3h (3 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.

3 episodes

Series Premiere

2016-06-16T20:00:00Z

1x01 Marx

Series Premiere

1x01 Marx

  • 2016-06-16T20:00:00Z1h

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.

2016-06-23T20:00:00Z

1x02 Nietzsche

1x02 Nietzsche

  • 2016-06-23T20:00:00Z1h

Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science.

2016-06-30T20:00:00Z

1x03 Freud

1x03 Freud

  • 2016-06-30T20:00:00Z1h

Bettany Hughes travels to Vienna on the trail of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.

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