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Legacy

Napoleon | Vive La Revolution | 1

Legacy

Original Legacy Productions

News Commentary, News, History, Society & Culture

3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A Corsican boy, an outsider, seizes his chance to make a name for himself when France is turned upside down by a long and bloody revolution. He’s relentless in his pursuit of power, and in the pursuit of one woman.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the first ever episode of Legacy.

0:10.0

I'm Afua Hirsch.

0:11.1

And I'm Peter Franco Pan.

0:12.8

The purpose of this show is to take key characters from history

0:16.2

and drill down into their legacy in a way you might not have heard before,

0:20.3

to ask how their

0:21.3

history informs the present.

0:23.3

We're going to talk about people, their lives, the reputations, and how we should re-evaluate

0:27.0

them, or if we need to re-evaluate them at all.

0:29.3

We're not shy of really going there for the big names, but we're living in an age where

0:34.7

a lot of those received wisdoms or ideas that have been handed down more comfortably for generations are rightly, I think, being debated in a new way and a new light.

0:43.6

And I think that's healthy and that's exactly what we're doing.

0:45.8

I think also we're living in a time of great change in the 21st century.

0:48.8

So picking out the key individuals to think about what they did, why they did it, how we should think about that today,

0:55.3

I think it's going to be a real challenge.

1:02.1

We're going to begin with someone who is seen by some as a brutal dictator and warmonger

1:07.4

and to others as a visionary leader.

1:10.9

Across the first four episodes of Legacy, it's the French Emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte.

1:25.3

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1:28.3

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1:35.3

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1:47.2

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