The Sunday Debate: Napoleon the Great? With Andrew Roberts, Adam Zamoyski and Jeremy Paxman

The Sunday Debate: Napoleon the Great? With Andrew Roberts, Adam Zamoyski and Jeremy Paxman

How should we remember Napoleon, the man of obscure Corsican birth who rose to become emperor of the French and briefly master of Europe? In 2014, as the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo approached, Intelligence Squared brought together two of Britain’s finest historians to debate how we should assess Napoleon’s life and legacy. Was he a military genius and father of the French state, or a blundering nonentity who created his own enduring myth? Was his goal of uniting the European continent under a common political system the forerunner of the modern ‘European dream’? Or was he an incompetent despot, a warning from history of the dangers of overarching grand plans? Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hotels with History | Raffles Hotel, Singapore, with Richard E. Grant and Jules Perowne

Hotels with History | Raffles Hotel, Singapore, with Richard E. Grant and Jules Perowne

This is an episode of Hotels with History, produced by Intelligence Squared on behalf of ⁠Perowne International⁠⁠. On todays episode, Richard journeys to Singapore to explore the legendary Raffles ...

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What Did Twenty Years of Western Intervention in Afghanistan Achieve? With Jon Lee Anderson

For more than 40 years, world-renowned foreign correspondent Jon Lee Anderson has been reporting on wars, crises and revolutions, from Latin America to the Middle East and Africa.  Throughout his car...

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Who are the Trailblazing Women Hidden From Our History? With Women's Prize Founder Kate Mosse

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Did you know that Mary Shelley was a teenager when she started writing Frankenstein in 1814? Or that England’s most prolific goal scorer - man or woman - was superstar striker Lily Parr, who scored a ...

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Is the Data on Climate Change More Optimistic than We Thought? With Hannah Ritchie

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What if the real story of climate change is far more hopeful than we’ve been led to believe? With so much doomsday reporting and general misinformation on climate change, it can be hard to know what’...

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Ian McEwan on Speculative Fiction, Lost Poems and What We Can Know

Ian McEwan on Speculative Fiction, Lost Poems and What We Can Know

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections.  His novels include Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach, and he is the rec...

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 Sotheby’s Talks | Custodians of Taste: Pauline Karpidas and the Women who Shape the Art World

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On today’s episode, an episode from our friends at Sotheby's exploring the remarkable collecting journey of Pauline Karpidas, one of the most influential art patrons of the past fifty years. Ahead of ...

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Arundhati Roy on Storytelling, Memory and The Human Condition (Part Two)

Arundhati Roy on Storytelling, Memory and The Human Condition (Part Two)

‘It is vanishingly rare for a writer to both confront the ugliness of humanity and still search for its beauty. Roy is that rare writer.’ – Naomi Klein Arundhati Roy is one of today’s most esteemed p...

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Arundhati Roy on Storytelling, Memory and The Human Condition (Part One)

Arundhati Roy on Storytelling, Memory and The Human Condition (Part One)

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