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Lord Byron

30 min

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30 min

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Aristotle

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Charles Darwin

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Karl Marx

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The Mark Steel Lectures

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Aristotle

Season 1 · Episode 4 · Oct 28, 2003

Mark Steel traces the history of Greek Philosophy from Pythagoras (“never ate beans”), to Plato (“old and bald”), to Aristotle (“made lists of Olympic champions for fun, and possibly a bugger for the bottle, or possibly not”). The lecture takes in all the important areas of classical philosophy, including ethics, Sue Barker, whether the Four Tops are really the Four Tops at all, incontinence and Jim Davidson, ballooning, and why Aristotle would have disapproved of Orange marches. Filmed at the Parthenon and across Athens, Mark Steel brings you the Aristotle that history has forgotten; the one that liked a pretty girl, a shop full of beds and a KFC, and just maybe a drink as well.

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The Mark Steel Lectures

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200330m7.5

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Aristotle

Season 1 · Episode 4 · Oct 28, 2003

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