The Mark Steel Lectures

Season 2 (6 Episodes)

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Stand-up comedian Mark Steel gives satirical and educational lectures on some of history's greatest thinkers.

Season 2 Episodes:

Episode 1 Ludwig van Beethoven

1. Ludwig van Beethoven

Aired: Nov 5, 2004

Mark Steel turns up the volume on Beethoven with his tribute to a man who was...

Episode 2 Leonardo da Vinci

2. Leonardo da Vinci

Aired: Nov 12, 2004

Creator of some of the greatest works of art in human history, but at the sam...

Episode 3 Mary Shelley

3. Mary Shelley

Aired: Nov 19, 2004

Like Dr Frankenstein himself, Mark Steel has taken the cold-cuts of the tradi...

Episode 4 Thomas Paine

4. Thomas Paine

Aired: Nov 26, 2004

Surely Britain’s greatest unknown international revolutionary, best-selling a...

Episode 5 Sylvia Pankhurst

5. Sylvia Pankhurst

Aired: Dec 3, 2004

Tracing her life from schooldays in radical Manchester to retirement in rural...

Episode 6 Albert Einstein

6. Albert Einstein

Aired: Dec 10, 2004

A great physicist but a lousy father, Einstein played with the nature of spac...


Info about The Mark Steel Lectures

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC Four

Genres:Comedy, Documentary, History, Biography