THE MARK STEEL LECTURE
Return to BBC4 on Thursday 23rd February for a 6 week run looking at the lives of the likes of Descartes, Chaucer, Guevara and little known activis Hariet Tubman. The series opens with a look at the life of Oliver Cromwell.
Begins Thu 23rd Feb 11pm BBC Four.
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BAFTA 2005 NOMINATED MARK STEEL LECTURES
Hear clips from Mark's 2005 BAFTA nominated lecture series that made the transition from BBC Radio 4 to BBC4 last year.

The Mark Steel Lecture: Ludwig Van Beethoven was nominated for The Comedy Award at the Sony Awards 2003.
"A great show, delivered with passion, very funny and with a bit of history thrown in. What more could you want?" - The judges
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COLUMNIST FOR THE INDEPENDENT
Read Mark's regular column in The Independent
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+ VIVE LA REVOLUTION: a Stand-up History of the French Revolution is out now, published by Scribner UK.

If real life can be funny, history should be doubly so.

Vive le Revolution is an uproariously serious work of history - brilliantly funny and insightful, it puts the peculiarity of individual people back at the centre of the story.
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