Summary
Journalist Robin Aitken comes from a conservative political viewpoint to a man who has inspired mass movements on the left: Karl Marx. Robin who was a BBC reporter for 25 years thinks Marx was always in the background discourse of politics, an influence he partly feared and didn't fully understand. He takes a walk through central London in the footsteps of the great revolutionary. And in conversation with the likes of Paul Mason, Judith Orr, Marc Stears and Peter Hitchens he tries to find out what political and economic influence Marx retains today. Producer: Nina Robinson.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for downloading analysis from the BBC. |
| 0:02.8 | This week we explore the intellectual and emotional appeal |
| 0:06.0 | of the ideas of a radical thinker with a big beard |
| 0:09.0 | and he wasn't an East London hipster. |
| 0:11.0 | Robin Aitkin explains in analysis. |
| 0:15.0 | A sunny Sunday morning in Piccadilly Circus and an unusual group of tourists is gathering. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm from Baltimore. I'm from Hong Kong. |
| 0:26.7 | I'm from Ithaca, New York. From Leicestershire. I'm from Windsor. |
| 0:31.2 | Not for these people, the glitz of the Trocadero or shopping in the gilded |
| 0:36.5 | emporiums of Regent Street. They're here to learn more about an economist and philosopher |
| 0:42.4 | who changed the world. |
| 0:44.0 | My name's Haiko Ku, I'll be your guide today. |
| 0:47.0 | The tour lasts for 9,000 seconds. |
| 0:50.0 | We cover 2,222 meters, that's 2,76 steps based on the average human step. |
| 0:57.0 | We go to the first location, which is probably the most important tourist location of the future for the whole of humanity |
| 1:05.3 | after all it's the beginning the origin of a movement that transformed the world |
| 1:09.5 | about the life and the ideas of Karl Marx. This is |
| 1:29.0 | this is probably the best known Marxist landmark of the mall, his grave in the greenery of Highgate Cemetery. |
| 1:32.0 | The tomb with its commanding bust-a- in the greenery of Highgate Cemetery. |
| 1:33.0 | The tomb, with its commanding bust of the man, |
| 1:36.0 | and its resonant epitaph, workers of all lands unite, |
| 1:40.0 | is a place of pilgrimage. |
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