Darwin: The Lecture
Freud: the lecture
Pipped to the post by Groucho for the 20th century's most famous cigar smoker, his response to the turmoil of his age was "It's your mother. Try some cocaine." He ejected God from the mind - but what would Freud replace him with?
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The logic of what he was discovering made Darwin incredibly anxious. Discover more about Darwin's evolution revolution.
Find out more about Charles Darwin in this programme from the BBC/OU Mark Steel Lectures.
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 him onto the Beagle and into the bedroom, and worry for his sanity as he fashions a turtle out of mashed potato.
A tortured figure whose distress eventually forced him to take to his bed and watch Animal Hospital and Countdown all day (probably), this is the show that tells you things about Darwin you never knew - including his opinion on the taste of Galapagos tortoise urine.
Featuring Martin Hyder as Charles Darwin and - in one of his final TV appearances - the late Bob Monkhouse as himself.
Content last updated: 11/10/2004
