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Like Dr Frankenstein himself, Mark Steel has taken the cold-cuts of the traditional TV lecture and brought it back to life with passion and electricity. Taking as its subjects both the book for whi...ch Mary Shelley is famous and the tragedy-filled life of the woman herself, the programme moves from England to Geneva and back in search of the spark that created the monster. Almost as if genetically programmed by the pioneering mother she never knew, and on whose grave she consummated her love for the poet Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley created an indestructible legend more relevant today than ever as Mark Steel discovers with his customary wit and passion. Kenneth Branagh does not feature in this programme.
Like Dr Frankenstein himself, Mark Steel has taken the cold-cuts of the traditional TV lecture and brought it back to life with passion and electricity. Taking as its subjects both the book for whi...ch Mary Shelley is famous and the tragedy-filled life of the woman herself, the programme moves from England to Geneva and back in search of the spark that created the monster. Almost as if genetically programmed by the pioneering mother she never knew, and on whose grave she consummated her love for the poet Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley created an indestructible legend more relevant today than ever as Mark Steel discovers with his customary wit and passion. Kenneth Branagh does not feature in this programme.
| Series: | The Mark Steel Lectures 2; Series 2 |
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| Episode | 3 |
| First transmission date: | 2004 |
| Published: | 2004 |
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| Duration: | 00:28:57 |
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| Producer: | Jon Rolph |
| Contributors: | Martin Hyder; Emma Kennedy; Mark Steel |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | : http://www.open2.net/marksteel/shelley_lecture.html |
| Production number: | JOUA340P |
| Videofinder number: | 6896 |
| Available to public: | no |
