Genius of the Modern World

Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world: Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.

Genre: Documentary, Biography, History

Cast:Bettany Hughes , Hannah Dawson , Simon Goldhill , Jonathan Wolff , Michael Molnar , Manuel Dries , Lisa Appignanesi , Ken Gemes , Sam Shuster , Angela Hobbs , Simon May , Dany Nobus , Peter Lamb , Janet Sayers , Rachel Holmes , Simone Faxa , Paul Mason , A.C. Grayling

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Marx

Thu, Jun 16, 2016

Bettany Hughes investigates the revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Nietzsche

Thu, Jun 23, 2016

Bettany Hughes goes in search of the beliefs of a man whose work is amongst the most devastatingly manipulated and misinterpreted in philosophical history.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Freud

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

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