The Ideas That Make Us - Part 1 Character

Street philosophy with award-winning historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes. She begins each programme with the first, extant evidence of a single word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels both forwards and backwards in time, investigating how these ideas have been moulded by history, and how they've shaped us. A history of ideas described as “a double espresso shot of philosophy, history, science and the arts.”

1. Character
Bettany considers changing ideas about character at an ancient Greek palace, in a library, at a political think-tank, in a centre of neuroscience and in a prison kitchen.