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The Mark Steel LectureSeries 2Episodes

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  1. Karl Marx

    6/6The comedian gives his assessment of the influential revolutionary thinker and philosopher

  2. Billie Holiday

    5/6Initially a hater of jazz music, the radical comedian profiles the singer and songwriter.

  3. Che Guevara

    4/6Profiling the revolutionary leader who became a left-wing hero, despite chronic asthma.

  4. Leonardo da Vinci

    3/6A profile of the Italian artist and scholar - genius or hopeless absent-minded buffoon?

  5. Aristotle

    2/6The radical comedian profiles the Greek philosopher, who he thinks was hard done by.

  6. Lord Byron

    1/6The life and times of the 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' Romantic poet.