Mark Steel Lecture

An absolutely brilliant TV show shown on BBC4 and BBC2. Comedian Mark Steel gives wonderful lectures on various historical figures, if i thought history lectures at university were like this i'd have been applying to study history until somewhere accpeted me. He makes the people he lectures about come alive and gives a history of his subject that you'll rarely hear about anywhere else. Not just dry dull facts, this man truly makes history feel significant to the modern world and worth learning about. Did you know Beethoven had a love/hate relationship with Napoelon and was essentialy a revolutionary at heart but felt betrayed by Napoleon when he declared himself Emporer?

The show was the main reason why i listed a link to a website about him, i think i'll change it to the open2.net website in due course.

edit: i cannot believe i used the cliche about making 'history come alive', the shame!