Aristotle The Mark Steel Lectures : Season 1 Episode 4
BBC Four 30m int(0)
Aired: October 28th, 2003 @ 11:00 PM EST on BBC Four
Mark Steel traces the history of Greek Philosophy from Pythagoras (“never ate beansâ€), to Plato (“old and baldâ€), to Aristotle (“made lists of Olympic champions for fun, and possibly a bugger for the bottle, or possibly notâ€). The lecture takes in all the important areas of classical philosophy, including ethics, Sue Barker, whether the Four Tops are really the Four Tops at all, incontinence and Jim Davidson, ballooning, and why Aristotle would have disapproved of Orange marches. Filmed at the Parthenon and across Athens, Mark Steel brings you the Aristotle that history has forgotten; the one that liked a pretty girl, a shop full of beds and a KFC, and just maybe a drink as well.