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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The Specialist | The Untold Story of the Shredded Banksy, with Alex Branczik

The Specialist | The Untold Story of the Shredded Banksy, with Alex Branczik

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The Specialist | The Rediscovery of Rubens’ The Massacre of the Innocents, with George Gordon

The Specialist | The Rediscovery of Rubens’ The Massacre of the Innocents, with George Gordon

This is an episode of The Specialist, produced by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Sotheby's. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes ...

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How Can Football Shirts Explain Money, Power and Politics?

How Can Football Shirts Explain Money, Power and Politics?

In today’s episode, journalist and author Joey D'Urso joins us to discuss the themes of his new book More Than A Shirt: How Football Shirts Explain Global Politics, Money and Power. D'Urso travelled a...

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How Geography Explains Our World, with Tim Marshall

Tim Marshall is one of the world’s most successful authors on foreign affairs. He’s the writer who put the ‘geo’ into geopolitics with his multi-million selling books Prisoners of Geography and The Po...

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How will Trump’s tariff war impact the global economy? With Philip Coggan

What happens when the world’s biggest economy turns its back on global trade? In today's episode, host Adam McCauley is joined by renowned financial journalist and economist Philip Coggan to examine ...

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The Search for a Jewish Homeland in Texas, with Rachel Cockerell and James McAuley

The Search for a Jewish Homeland in Texas, with Rachel Cockerell and James McAuley

On June 7th 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamt, but to Texas. The man who persuades the passengers to go is David Jochelmann, Ra...

15 Jul 202528min

What can Charlottesville teach us about America’s national story? With Deborah Baker

What can Charlottesville teach us about America’s national story? With Deborah Baker

In August 2017, over a thousand neo-Nazis, fascists, Klan members, and neo-Confederates descended on a small southern city to protest the pending removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. What happened i...

13 Jul 202537min

Why does nobody understand quantum physics? With Frank Verstraete and Céline Broeckaert

Why does nobody understand quantum physics? With Frank Verstraete and Céline Broeckaert

Why does the universe behave in ways that defy logic - and can anyone truly understand it? In this episode, we’re joined by physicist Frank Verstraete and writer Céline Broeckaert, the husband-and-wi...

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