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The Mark Steel Lecture Series 2 Episodes

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  1. Karl Marx

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

  2. Billie Holiday

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

  3. Che Guevara

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

  4. Leonardo da Vinci

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

  5. Aristotle

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

  6. Lord Byron

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