Comedian and journalist Mark Steel talks about the life and work of Karl Marx in this show based on his Radio 4 lectures, claiming his theories are more relevant now than ever before and citing ...

Series telling the story of some of the world's greatest names, from Byron to Pankhurst, in an accessible, comic manner. Mark Steel proposes a series of wildly absurd solutions to a societal and ...

Taking in the revolutionary nature of the Freemasons, Haydn's contractual similarity to Prince, Beethoven's unusual fondness for semi-hemidemisemiquavers and his love-hate relationship with Napoleon, ...

Join Mark Steel as he charts Cromwell's course through British history; his election and resignation from parliament, the formation of his New Model Army, the overthrow and subsequent execution of the ...

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 ...

He was an obsessive with a secret Swiss boyfriend. And, in the world of The Mark Steel Lectures, he likes Alphabetti Spaghetti and the Communards. He was a scientist who thought he could turn lead ...

In this latest edition of his BAFTA-nominated series of lectures, writer and broadcaster Mark Steel travels to South America and turns his attentions to the life and revolutionary times of Ernesto ...

Mark Steel gets close to some of Leonardo's greatest works, and finds out what The Last Supper has in common with EastEnders. Packing in not just a life of Leonardo but also a brief canter through the ...

Delving further, and more imaginatively, into the evolution of Charles Darwin than ever before, the Mark Steel Lecture takes this modern hero off the ten pound note and into the present day. We follow ...

For Radio 4, he has written and performed four series of both The Mark Steel Solution and The Mark Steel Lecture, which transferred to BBC4, and more than 70 episodes of Mark Steel's In Town, where he ...

This series sees Mark exploring the lives of Lord Byron, Aristotle, Leonardo Da Vinci, Che Guevara, Billie Holliday and Karl Marx. The last series follows Mark looking at the lives of Ludwig van ...