Genius of the Modern World Season 1

E1: Marx

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

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

E3: Freud

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