The Napoleonic Quarterly9 Nov 2024

The NQ masterplan

It was always the plan that we would use this quieter period before the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars to ensure the podcast is firing on all cylinders before we hit 1805. With the help of many listeners supporting the Napoleonic Quarterly with either their money all the time, that is exactly what we are now getting ready to do. So this week Alex and Clemens are revealing what those plans look like, sharing some inside info along the way, in the hope that some more of you might just come forward to offer assistance. Here are the main ways you can help:

-Sign-up on Patreon or, if you already have, consider diverting an even greater proportion of your income to the general betterment of the Napoleonic Quarterly!

-Leave us a five-star review wherever you get your podcasts. Especially if they happen to be Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

-If you would be able to spare some time to help the podcast, there are a myriad of little jobs which could make a big difference. I mention quite a few of these in the episode, but here is a fuller list. You could…

Help us create more social media content…

Run a new You-tube channel for the podcast, potentially chopping episodes up into lots of different segments…

Look after our existing content with some proper admin work - adding chapters to Spotify, improving the SEO of the show notes, that sort of thing…

Give us some advice on how best to use Facebook ads...

Contribute to the fledgling podcast website…

Lend us your video skills by working on a trailer which would be the central intro to the project for new listeners…

Come up with your own ideas for how to help push the podcast along…

-Anybody contributing either financially or with their time is very welcome to get involved on the editorial side too. Would you like to have a go at doing one of our interviews? Is there a particular topic you would like to explore doing something on? Get in touch and we can work something out.

-Failing all the above, it's great to have you listening and engaging with the podcast. Do send any questions or comments through, either via social media or napoleonicquarterly (all one word) at gmail dot com.

Thanks for your support, and here's to the road to Waterloo! Vive le podcast!

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Episoder(183)

Napoleon's dark night of the soul (screenplay plotting, mins 75-90)

In the sixth 15-minute section of our screenplay, Napoleon plunges into his darkest hour. Reeling from betrayal and defeat, he confronts the plague-ridden horrors of his campaign in the Levant and fac...

24 Jun 1h 3min

Waterloo teaser: The myth of Hougoumont

Charles Esdaile has a lot to get off his chest when it comes to the Battle of Waterloo - which is why he surprised me recently by asking to do what turned into a three-hour mythbusting session working...

21 Jun 18min

1798 recap: Egyptian adventure

Our recap episodes, which offer a synthesis of our 1792-1804 coverage one year at a time, have reached 1798 - a year in which Napoleon Bonaparte leads an astonishingly bold expedition to capture Egypt...

11 Jun 51min

Napoleon's pear-shaped ambitions (Screenplay plotting, 60-75mins)

In the fifth 15-minute section of our screenplay, Napoleon’s journey takes a sharp, downward turn. Success is replaced by mounting setbacks as our hero heads to Egypt - an ambiguous mission that isola...

4 Jun 52min

1797 recap: The frenzy of victory

Our recap episodes, which offer a synthesis of our 1792-1804 coverage one year at a time, have reached 1797 - a year in which Napoleon Bonaparte continues to confound western Europe amidst the continu...

28 Mai 48min

Towards the midpoint: Love triangles and military montages (Screenplay plotting, 45-60mins)

In the fourth 15-minute section of our movie screenplay we move towards the midpoint, the critical moment where accumulating consequences for our hero Napoleon Bonaparte make him realise his military ...

21 Mai 39min

1796 recap: The rockstar general

Our recap episodes, which offer a synthesis of our 1792-1804 coverage one year at a time, has reached 1796 - a year in which the rockstar general Napoleon Bonaparte writes his own script. Chris Sloan ...

13 Mai 47min

What every Napoleon movie needs: The promise of the premise (Screenplay plotting, minutes 30-45)

In the first 15 minutes of Act 2 of our putative Napoleon movie, we get into "the promise of the premise"—delivering the kind of content audiences expect from a Napoleon film: military campaigns, poli...

6 Mai 50min