Poster of The Mark Steel Lectures - Season 2 - Episode 1 - Ludwig van Beethoven

The Mark Steel Lectures - Season 2 - Ludwig van Beethoven (Episode 1)

Plot: Mark Steel turns up the volume on Beethoven with his tribute to a man who was the nearest eighteenth-century Vienna got to not only Jimi Hendrix, but also Captain Sensible. Unflinchingly exposing Ludwig’s anger management issues and his dependence on Ceefax’s 888 subtitle service, Mark Steel sets Beethoven in his revolutionary context and reveals the quirks of his character the history books gloss over
Episode Aired On:
Friday, November 5 2004
19 years ago