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He was a scientist who thought he could turn lead into gold. 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.

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The contradictions of this fascinating character, half-scientist, half-magician, take us from Newton's childhood penchant for arson to the Houses of Parliament via Old Compton Street, discovering on the way why God can't draw circles and what Cliff Richard will be doing in the year 3150.

Mark Steel explores the world and the discoveries of Isaac Newton - surely one of Britain's finest scientific alchemical gay fraud-busting genius MPs. (from open2.net)

Course Currilcum

  • Mark Steel Lectures – Isaac Newron Unlimited
  • Mark Steel Lectures – Aristotle Unlimited
  • Mark Steel Lectures – Karl Marx Unlimited
  • Mark Steel Lectures – Ludwig van Beethoven Unlimited
  • Mark Steel Lectures – Mary Shelley Unlimited
  • Mark Steel Lectures – Thomas Paine Unlimited
  • Mark Steel Lectures – Sylvia Pankhurst Unlimited
  • Mark Steel Lectures – Oliver Cromwell Unlimited
  • Mark Steel Lectures – Rene Descartes Unlimited
  • Mark Steel Lectures – Geoffrey Chaucer Unlimited
  • Mark Steel Lectures – Harriet Tubman Unlimited
  • Mark Steel Lectures – Che Guevara Unlimited