Legacy
Original Legacy Productions
EN182 episodes
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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 no...
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Episodes (182)
Margaret Thatcher | Strikes, Bombs, & Selling the Silver | 3
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Margaret Thatcher | Cuts, Riots, & War | 2
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Margaret Thatcher | The Making of the Iron Lady | 1
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Cleopatra | The Last Pharaoh of Egypt | 4
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Cleopatra | Bling...and Bloodshed | 3
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Cleopatra | The Courageous Queen | 2
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Cleopatra | A Taste for Betrayal | 1
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Alan Turing | A Forgotten Hero | 4
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Alan Turing | Illegal Love | 3
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Alan Turing | Cracking the Code | 2
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Alan Turing | An Awkward Genius | 1
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Nina Simone | Rebirth | 4
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Nina Simone | Breakdown | 3
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Nina Simone | To Be Young, Gifted and Black | 2
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Nina Simone | The Road to Carnegie Hall | 1
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Gorbachev | The Man Who Lost an Empire | 4
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Gorbachev | Meltdown | 3
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Gorbachev | Shutting Down the Cold War | 2
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Gorbachev | The Boy from Stavropol | 1
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Picasso | Drawing Lessons | 4
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Picasso | The Weeping Woman | 3
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Picasso | The Muse | 2
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Picasso | Bullfights, Brothels & Bohemia | 1
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Cecil Rhodes | Must Rhodes Fall? | 4
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Cecil Rhodes | A Brooding Spirit | 3
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Cecil Rhodes | The Rise of Rhodesia | 2
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Cecil Rhodes | Eureka! | 1
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Napoleon | The Emperor & The Duke | 4
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Napoleon | Clash of Empires | 3
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Napoleon | Charlemagne's Crown | 2
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Napoleon | Vive La Revolution | 1
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Introducing…Legacy
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