Genius of the Modern World

7.6/ 10 11 votes 2016 60m / ep 2 popularity

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

Network: BBC Four

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Bettany Hughes

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