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Cecil Rhodes | Must Rhodes Fall? | 4
Episode 8
More than a century after Rhodes' death students in South Africa and Britain thrust his name back into the spotlight. Should statues of colonialists …
2 years, 7 months ago
Cecil Rhodes | A Brooding Spirit | 3
Episode 7
Rhodes deals with the fallout from the Jameson Raid as questions about his conduct reach the British parliament. He finds a new cause to further his …
2 years, 7 months ago
Cecil Rhodes | The Rise of Rhodesia | 2
Episode 6
Rhodes dashes back to Kimberley to be with his dying friend. He then redoubles his colonial efforts, using ruthless tactics to trick the indigenous p…
2 years, 7 months ago
Cecil Rhodes | Eureka! | 1
Episode 5
A sickly vicar’s son travels from England to Africa to join the diamond rush. Cecil Rhodes wants to make his fortune. But he also wants to extend the…
2 years, 7 months ago
Napoleon | The Emperor & The Duke | 4
Episode 4
After escaping exile on Elba, Napoleon marches back to power. But the British Duke of Wellington is on his way to Waterloo to end the Napoleonic era.…
2 years, 8 months ago
Napoleon | Clash of Empires | 3
Episode 3
Napoleon’s military success has cowed a continent but, in Russia, he meets almost unimaginable horror. He was defeated, he says, not by the Tsar, but…
2 years, 8 months ago
Napoleon | Charlemagne's Crown | 2
Episode 2
It’s not enough for Napoleon to dominate France. He fights right across Europe before sweeping into Notre Dame, Josephine at his side, to claim an im…
2 years, 8 months ago
Napoleon | Vive La Revolution | 1
Episode 1
A Corsican boy, an outsider, seizes his chance to make a name for himself when France is turned upside down by a long and bloody revolution. He’s rel…
2 years, 8 months ago
Introducing…Legacy
Legacy lands Wednesday 15th November. Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to h…
2 years, 8 months ago