Legacy

By Original Legacy Productions

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 ... more

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January 17, 2024 Picasso | The Muse | 2
Picasso finds inspiration in an unlikely setting and changes art forever. He also finds his first muse, then his second... and then his third - leaving a trail of suffering behind him.
Artwork:
Family of Acrobats with Monkey, Pablo Picasso (1905)
Portrait of Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso (1905-6)
The Young Ladies of Avignon, Pablo Picasso (1906)
Olga in an Armchair, Pablo Picasso (1917)
The Dream, Pablo Picasso (1932)

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46min
January 10, 2024 Picasso | Bullfights, Brothels & Bohemia | 1
His father wants him to become a great classical painter, but teenage Pablo Picasso has other ideas. He joins the heady bohemia of Barcelona and Paris, where tragedy transforms his art and puts him on the road to fame.
Artwork:
The Little Yellow Picador, Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1889)
The First Communion, Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1896)
La Vie, Pablo Picasso (1903)

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44min
January 03, 2024 Cecil Rhodes | Must Rhodes Fall? | 4
More than a century after Rhodes' death students in South Africa and Britain thrust his name back into the spotlight. Should statues of colonialists like him be torn down? And, in Africa, how is Rhodes' legacy felt today?
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36min
December 27, 2023 Cecil Rhodes | A Brooding Spirit | 3
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 ambition but years of ill-health are starting to catch up with him.
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34min
December 20, 2023 Cecil Rhodes | The Rise of Rhodesia | 2
Rhodes dashes back to Kimberley to be with his dying friend. He then redoubles his colonial efforts, using ruthless tactics to trick the indigenous population out of their land. But an ill-fated scheme to take on the Boers is about to hurt him.

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42min
December 13, 2023 Cecil Rhodes | Eureka! | 1
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 British Empire. Drama in his private life threatens to undermine both ambitions.
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44min
December 06, 2023 Napoleon | The Emperor & The Duke | 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. When the battle subsides, what’s left of Napoleon’s legacy? And what is his legacy today?
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35min
November 29, 2023 Napoleon | Clash of Empires | 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 by winter. His subjects aren’t so sure. And his enemies see an opportunity.
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38min
November 22, 2023 Napoleon | Charlemagne's Crown | 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 imperial crown, watched by Europe’s elite.

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43min
November 15, 2023 Napoleon | Vive La Revolution | 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 relentless in his pursuit of power, and in the pursuit of one woman.
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42min

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