Icons of Our Time

This series takes a look at six of the most powerful and enduring iconic figures of the 20th Century. Every Icon has classic images that encapsulate everything about them and their legacy remains enduring. For good or bad, their power has a lasting effect on people today. Each episode features Professor Martin Kemp of Oxford University, author of From Christ To Coke: How Image Becomes Icon along with key people who had direct family or working relationships with these important figures. We illustrate how the combination of events led them to become the Icons we know today.