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Mark Steel Lectures - Mary Shelley

Like Dr Frankenstein himself, Mark Steel has taken the cold-cuts of the traditional TV lecture and brought it back to life with passion and electricity. Taking as its subjects both the book for which Mary Shelley is famous and the tragedy-filled life of the woman herself, the programme moves from England to Geneva and back in search of the spark that created the monster.

Almost as if genetically programmed by the pioneering mother she never knew, and on whose grave she consummated her love for the poet Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley created an indestructible legend more relevant today than ever - as Mark Steel discovers with his customary wit and passion. (from open2.net)

Mark Steel Lectures - Mary Shelley


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Lecture 01 - Lord Byron
Lecture 02 - Isaac Newton
Lecture 03 - Sigmund Freud
Lecture 04 - Aristotle
Lecture 05 - Charles Darwin
Lecture 06 - Karl Marx
Lecture 07 - Ludwig van Beethoven
Lecture 08 - Leonardo da Vinci
Lecture 09 - Mary Shelley
Lecture 10 - Thomas Paine
Lecture 11 - Sylvia Pankhurst
Lecture 12 - Albert Einstein
Lecture 13 - Oliver Cromwell
Lecture 14 - Charlie Chaplin
Lecture 15 - Rene Descartes
Lecture 16 - Geoffrey Chaucer
Lecture 17 - Harriet Tubman
Lecture 18 - Che Guevara