Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History year. Richard Sharp is back.

Loyal subjects of Emperor Bonaparte beware. It's always a great place talking about

the Commonwealth and the spot cast. He's a best-selling author, he's sold millions of books.

He has in thralls generations with his sharp novels and his other historical novels.

And he's written the nonfiction book on Waterloo, so he's become in the course of his

own career, something you have an expert in his own right. It's always lovely to catch

sharp with him, to hang out with him particularly now because he's brought back his most famous

hero, Sharp, after a 15-20 year absence. Richard Sharp and Patrick Harper march again.

In this episode I was able to ask all the questions that I've always wanted to ask about

Richard Sharp, where he came from. Does he actually have a York Trackson? Or is that just

Sean Bean? And what he thought about the TV adaptations. And I remember when I was a kid,

my librarian at school recommended I might like to read this book about Sharp's I liked

history. I sat down and obviously from there age 15, 16 read them all and I never believed

that one day I'd have a job which involves meeting up with Bernard Cornwall, drinking whiskey,

chatting about Sharp, having a laugh and broadcasting that conversation to you listening

to this podcast. As I've said before many times on this podcast, thank you very much indeed.

You'll often say when they bump into industry and they say, I hope you know like you are

and I say, you're damn right I do. I'm very, very lucky indeed. Not day goes by when I don't

give thanks for all the great fun that I'm having. And particularly on days, like I say

when I get to hang out with people like Bernard. Sippin some Jameson's talking about early

90th century infantry tactics. There we go. What a life. If you love Napoleon at History,

then this week obviously is big week. It's Trafalgar week. So go on Trafalgar off a

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