The Mark Steel Revolution

Mark Steel turns his analytical mind to the theme of revolutions in these six entertaining lectures, examining some of the major historical forces at work and holding up a mirror to our own age.

In these entertaining lectures, he reinterprets the French Revolution, examining everything from the storming of the Bastille to the guillotine; looks at the politics of the sexual revolution (taking in the pill, the women's movement and the Stonewall riots); and assesses the motivating factors and key players in the Russian Revolution - including the Romanovs, Rasputin and the Red Guard.