Poster of The Mark Steel Lectures - Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aristotle

The Mark Steel Lectures - Season 1 - Aristotle (Episode 4)

Plot: 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
Episode Aired On:
Tuesday, October 28 2003
20 years ago