Legacy
Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived – and ask whether they have the rep they deserve. Should Nina Simone’s role in the civil rights movement be more celebrated than it is? When you find out what Picasso got up to in his studio, can you still admire his art? Was Napoleon a hero or a tyrant - or both? (And, while we’re at it, was he even short?) Legacy is the show that looks at big lives from the perspective of now – and doesn’t always like what it sees.

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Declaration of Independence | Follow The Money | 1

Declaration of Independence | Follow The Money | 1

What if the Boston Tea Party had less to do with liberty and more to do with a smuggler protecting his profit margins? What if hurricanes tearing through the Caribbean helped light the fuse of revolut...

2 Kesä 40min

Founding Fathers | Saints and Sinners | 4

Founding Fathers | Saints and Sinners | 4

Was Alexander Hamilton the real architect of American capitalism — or just the most self-destructive genius in the room? What does it mean that the man who shaped the nation's finances spent his caree...

28 Touko 42min

Founding Fathers | The Original Brexit | 3

Founding Fathers | The Original Brexit | 3

Who was the boring lawyer who quietly built the machine that made America work? Was John Adams so relentlessly right that even his allies couldn't stand him? And, how did the man who wrote the most be...

26 Touko 40min

The Founding Fathers | The O.G.'s | 2

The Founding Fathers | The O.G.'s | 2

What turned America's most famous British loyalist into its most dangerous revolutionary? What does a public humiliation in a Whitehall chamber have to do with the Declaration of Independence? And, if...

21 Touko 34min

Founding Fathers | The invention of the United States | 1

Founding Fathers | The invention of the United States | 1

How did a collection of desperate survivors, religious outcasts, and petty criminals become the architects of the world's most powerful nation? What does it mean to build a society on the language of ...

19 Touko 34min

Rasputin | How Rumour Broke an Empire | Feat. Sir Antony Beevor

Rasputin | How Rumour Broke an Empire | Feat. Sir Antony Beevor

How does a Siberian peasant mystic end up controlling the most powerful empire in Europe? Could the rumours that destroyed a dynasty have been entirely false — and did they matter anyway? And, without...

14 Touko 39min

Diets | One Stomach Flu Away From My Goal Weight | 2

Diets | One Stomach Flu Away From My Goal Weight | 2

What did it take for human beings to start controlling what they ate — and why did "health" so quickly become a coverstory for something else? How did a Venetian nobleman's wine-heavy calorie restrict...

12 Touko 42min

Diets | Three Eggs and a Bottle of Wine | 1

Diets | Three Eggs and a Bottle of Wine | 1

What did Vogue actually recommend women eat in 1977 — and why did it make one food writer cry in thebathroom? How did the Greeks turn a six-pack into a moral argument? And, has the human obsession wit...

7 Touko 35min

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