Dr James Fox tells the story of Vienna in 1908, when Klimt painted The Kiss and Freud revealed the Oedipus complex, but also when Adolf Hitler arrived in the city.
Dr James Fox tells the story of Vienna in 1908, a city of amazing creativity and dangerous tension. This was the year Gustav Klimt painted his masterpiece The Kiss, Sigmund Freud revealed the Oedipus complex, Egon Schiele produced startling pictures of humanity stripped to the bare essentials, and both music and architecture took a bold step in a radical new direction. But it was also the year a struggling young artist named Adolf Hitler arrived in the city, a year that would put Vienna and Europe on the road to destruction.
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Freud figures it out
Duration: 01:43
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Caf茅 Central
Duration: 01:16
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Egon Schiele's self-portrait
Duration: 02:06
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Unsquare Dance
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脫lafur Arnalds
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Jon Hopkins
Vessel
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Randy Newman
The Cleaner
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | James Fox |
| Executive Producer | Julian Birkett |
| Series Producer | Helen Shariatmadari |
| Director | Helen Shariatmadari |
Broadcasts
- Wed 20 Aug 2014 21:00
- Thu 21 Aug 2014 03:00
- Mon 25 Aug 2014 23:55
- Sat 24 Jan 2015 20:00
- Sun 25 Jan 2015 02:00
- Wed 28 Jan 2015 01:00
- Tue 22 Dec 2015 01:00
- Tue 11 Apr 2017 02:00
- Sun 10 Sep 2017 01:30
- Tue 29 Jan 2019 23:00
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Dr James Fox tells the story of three cities in three exceptional years.
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