Legacy

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Episodes: 100


 Nov 4, 2025


 Mar 28, 2024

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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 now – and doesn’t always like what it sees.

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Episode Date
The Rise of the Nazis | How Disease and Religion Paved the Way for Evil | 2
Nov 27, 2025
The Rise of the Nazis | How Disaster Lead to Catastrophe | 1
Nov 25, 2025
Greenland | The 51st State? | 2
Nov 20, 2025
Greenland | This Is Greenland | 1
Nov 18, 2025
Kwame Nkrumah | Rise and Fall | 4
Nov 13, 2025
Kwame Nkrumah | Pan Africanist | 3
Nov 11, 2025
Kwame Nkrumah | A Man Who Changed The World | 2
Nov 06, 2025
Kwame Nkrumah | The Good Subject | 1
Nov 03, 2025
St George | This is England and Beyond - St George's Flag Today | 2
Oct 30, 2025
St George | This is England - The Flag Of St George | 1
Oct 28, 2025
Martin Luther | A Man Who Changed The World | 2
Oct 23, 2025
Martin Luther | Revolutionary, Hero and Villain | 1
Oct 21, 2025
The Humble Potato | The Famine and the Frontier | 2
Oct 16, 2025
The Humble Potato | The Root Of Empires | 1
Oct 14, 2025
Joan of Arc | The Birth of a Saint | 4
Jun 18, 2025
Joan of Arc | Trial by Fire | 3
Jun 11, 2025
Joan of Arc | The Girl Who Made a King | 2
Jun 04, 2025
Joan of Arc | The Maid of Orleans | 1
May 28, 2025
Stalin | The Stain of Stalin | 4
May 21, 2025
Stalin | Fighting Hitler | 3
May 14, 2025
Stalin | The Terror | 2
May 07, 2025
Stalin | The Georgian Bandit | 1
Apr 30, 2025
Freud | Goodnight Vienna | 4
Apr 23, 2025
Freud | Battle of The Egos | 3
Apr 16, 2025
Freud | A Meeting Of Minds | 2
Apr 09, 2025
Freud | Mommy's Boy | 1
Apr 02, 2025
John Lennon | Imagine | 4
Mar 26, 2025
John Lennon | All You Need is Love | 3
Mar 19, 2025
John Lennon | Love Me Do | 2
Mar 12, 2025
John Lennon | The Boy Everyone Wanted | 1
Mar 05, 2025
Genghis Khan | The Final Campaign | 4
Feb 26, 2025
Genghis Khan | Sackings and Slaughter | 3
Feb 19, 2025
Genghis Khan | The Unstoppable Khan | 2
Feb 12, 2025
Genghis Khan | Survival of the Fittest | 1
Feb 05, 2025
Marie Antoinette | The Grim Finale | 4
Jan 29, 2025
Marie Antoinette | At The Mercy of The Mob | 3
Jan 22, 2025
Marie Antoinette | Queen of Scandal | 2
Jan 15, 2025
Marie Antoinette | A Princess and a Pawn | 1
Jan 08, 2025
Charles Dickens | The Final Curtain | 4
Jan 01, 2025
Legacy and British Scandal Special: The Scandalous Life of Charles Dickens | 5
Dec 27, 2024
Charles Dickens | A Very Dickens Christmas | 3
Dec 25, 2024
Charles Dickens | Dickensmania | 2
Dec 18, 2024
Charles Dickens | Hard Times | 1
Dec 11, 2024
Winston Churchill | Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat | 4
Dec 04, 2024
Winston Churchill | His Finest Hour | 3
Nov 27, 2024
Winston Churchill | The Unsinkable Politician | 2
Nov 20, 2024
Winston Churchill | Born To Rule | 1
Nov 13, 2024
John F. Kennedy | Camelot Comes Crashing Down | 4
Nov 06, 2024
John F. Kennedy | Clash of The Cold Warriors | 3
Oct 30, 2024
John F. Kennedy | Violence at Home and Abroad | 2
Oct 23, 2024
John F. Kennedy | The Poor Little Rich Boy | 1
Oct 16, 2024
Marilyn Monroe | Who Killed the Movie Star? | 4
Oct 09, 2024
Marilyn Monroe | Drama, Drink and Drugs | 3
Oct 02, 2024
Marilyn Monroe | Becoming Marilyn | 2
Sep 25, 2024
Marilyn Monroe | The Foster Kid Who Loved The Movies | 1
Sep 18, 2024
Encore: Cecil Rhodes | Must Rhodes Fall? | 4
Sep 11, 2024
Encore: Cecil Rhodes | A Brooding Spirit | 3
Sep 04, 2024
Encore: Cecil Rhodes | The Rise of Rhodesia | 2
Aug 28, 2024
Encore: Cecil Rhodes | Eureka! | 1
Aug 21, 2024
Bob Marley | One Love | 4
Aug 14, 2024
Bob Marley | Catching Fire | 3
Aug 07, 2024
Bob Marley | The Rise of the Rasta | 2
Jul 31, 2024
Bob Marley | The Captain's Son | 1
Jul 24, 2024
Hoover | The Deep State Lives On | 4
Jul 17, 2024
Hoover | Civil Rights and Dirty Tricks | 3
Jul 10, 2024
Hoover | Guns, Gangsters and G-Men | 2
Jul 02, 2024
Hoover | The Library Clerk Who Became All Powerful | 1
Jun 25, 2024
Margaret Thatcher | We’re All Thatcherites Now | 4
Jun 18, 2024
Margaret Thatcher | Strikes, Bombs, & Selling the Silver | 3
Jun 11, 2024
Margaret Thatcher | Cuts, Riots, & War | 2
Jun 04, 2024
Margaret Thatcher | The Making of the Iron Lady | 1
May 28, 2024
Cleopatra | The Last Pharaoh of Egypt | 4
May 21, 2024
Cleopatra | Bling...and Bloodshed | 3
May 14, 2024
Cleopatra | The Courageous Queen | 2
May 07, 2024
Cleopatra | A Taste for Betrayal | 1
Apr 30, 2024
Alan Turing | A Forgotten Hero | 4
Apr 23, 2024
Alan Turing | Illegal Love | 3
Apr 16, 2024
Alan Turing | Cracking the Code | 2
Apr 09, 2024
Alan Turing | An Awkward Genius | 1
Apr 02, 2024
Nina Simone | Rebirth | 4
Mar 27, 2024
Nina Simone | Breakdown | 3
Mar 20, 2024
Nina Simone | To Be Young, Gifted and Black | 2
Mar 13, 2024
Nina Simone | The Road to Carnegie Hall | 1
Mar 06, 2024
Gorbachev | The Man Who Lost an Empire | 4
Feb 28, 2024
Gorbachev | Meltdown | 3
Feb 21, 2024
Gorbachev | Shutting Down the Cold War | 2
Feb 14, 2024
Gorbachev | The Boy from Stavropol | 1
Feb 07, 2024
Picasso | Drawing Lessons | 4
Jan 31, 2024
Picasso | The Weeping Woman | 3
Jan 24, 2024
Picasso | The Muse | 2
Jan 17, 2024
Picasso | Bullfights, Brothels & Bohemia | 1
Jan 10, 2024
Cecil Rhodes | Must Rhodes Fall? | 4
Jan 03, 2024
Cecil Rhodes | A Brooding Spirit | 3
Dec 27, 2023
Cecil Rhodes | The Rise of Rhodesia | 2
Dec 20, 2023
Cecil Rhodes | Eureka! | 1
Dec 13, 2023
Napoleon | The Emperor & The Duke | 4
Dec 06, 2023
Napoleon | Clash of Empires | 3
Nov 29, 2023
Napoleon | Charlemagne's Crown | 2
Nov 22, 2023
Napoleon | Vive La Revolution | 1
Nov 15, 2023
Introducing…Legacy
Nov 08, 2023