Young Napoleon
You're Dead to Me
BBC
4.7 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Never mind the famous battles, who was the real Napoleon? Where did he come from? What events conspired to turn him from a young Corsican officer to one of history’s greatest figures? How intense was his relationship with his wife Josephine? What part of his body was recreated in plaster, and how much was somebody willing to pay for it?
And just how did one man manufacture his own hype way before the days of social media?
Greg Jenner is joined by comedian Dan Schreiber and historian Dr Laura O’Brien. It’s history for people who don’t like history!
Produced by Dan Morelle Script and research by Emma Nagouse
A Muddy Knees Media production for BBC Radio 4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.4 | Hello and welcome to your dead to me, a history podcast for people who don't like history |
| 0:10.7 | or at least people who forgot to learn any at school. |
| 0:13.1 | My name is Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian, author and I'm the chief nerd on the BBC |
| 0:17.2 | comedy show Horrible Histories. |
| 0:18.2 | Do you fancy some funny funny with your facts? |
| 0:20.8 | Then you have come to the right place. |
| 0:22.2 | Every episode I am joined by an expert historian who is book smart and a comedian who is |
| 0:26.3 | joke smart. |
| 0:27.3 | And today we are dining out by corner hats, having a paddle across the English channel |
| 0:31.2 | and spending some quality time with young Napoleon Bonaparte, looking at how he went from |
| 0:35.4 | random course of the teenager to top dog in Republican France. |
| 0:39.8 | In History Corner, she's a lecturer in Modern European History at Northumbria University, |
| 0:43.7 | she's an expert on Napoleon's reputation and political cartoons. |
| 0:47.8 | It is Dr Laura O'Brien. |
| 0:49.2 | Hi Laura, how are you? |
| 0:51.0 | And in Comedy Corner, he is a Renaissance man. |
| 0:53.7 | He's a stand up comedian, a writer, a radio producer. |
| 0:56.2 | From a QI elf, no pressure. |
| 0:58.4 | And co-host of the International Mega Smash hit podcast, no such thing as a fish, it is |
| 1:03.5 | Dan Schreiber. |
| 1:04.5 | Hey. |
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