Meetings With Remarkable Men

First broadcast from 20000214 to 20000218.

In five programmes `Today' reporter Mark Coles goes in search of the vilified - people who at some stage in their careers have been ridiculed, abused or dismissed as mad.

 
 
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Jacques Derrida20000214French avant-garde philosopher Jacques Derrida 
Aleister Crowley20000215Occultist Aleister Crowley, once described as `the wickedest man in the world'.
Karlheinz Stockhausen20000216German electronic composer Karlheinz Stockhausen 
Lou Reed20000217Rock star Lou Reed 
John Wesley Hardin20000218John Wesley Hardin, the infamous 19th-century American outlaw immortalised in a Bob Dylan song.