Genius of the Modern World

E1. Marx

Jun 16, 2016 · 60m

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

Jun 23, 2016 · 60m

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

E3. Freud

Jun 30, 2016 · 60m

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