Napoleon: The Man and the Myths
Historian Andrew Roberts presents a series, recorded partly on location in Paris, which dispels some myths about Napoleon Bonaparte.
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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05zzlb4
- Description
- Historian Andrew Roberts presents a series, recorded partly on location in Paris, which dispels some myths about Napoleon Bonaparte.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2023-12-17 08:29
- last episode published
- 2015-06-19 00:00
- publication frequency
- 1.0 days
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- BBC
- Owner
- BBC Radio 4
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- Number of Episodes
- 5
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| 2015-06-19 | What does history make of Napoleon? Exiled to St Helena, where it was hoped by the British that he would be forgotten, he in fact remained - and remains - a figure of fascination. For Europeans, he is still the author of civil reforms that underpin la... |
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| 2015-06-18 | The battle of Waterloo changed the future of Europe and sealed Napoleon's fate. But why did such a successful and experienced commander as Napoleon lose that battle, 200 years ago today? Historian Andrew Roberts describes Napoleon's uncharacteristic c... |
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| 2015-06-17 | Vaulting ambition, a politically calculating marriage, endless battles across Europe, a Russian campaign that cost the lives of half a million French troops - there is much for which history can criticise Napoleon. But historian Andrew Roberts defends... |
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| 2015-06-16 | It's said that France became a police state under Napoleon. He wanted to know everything about his growing empire and, despite the revolution, crowned himself as Emperor to rule over it. Historian Andrew Roberts challenges this bald account of events.... |
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| 2015-06-15 | Napoleon was savaged by British caricaturists during his lifetime. They loved to portray him as 'little Boney' - a short, uncouth, villainous, Corsican upstart. In this programme, historian Andrew Roberts dispels some of those myths. Recorded partly o... |
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