Season 1

2016-06-16 · 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.

2016-06-23 · 60m

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

2016-06-30 · 60m

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