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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Episodes
Showing 20 of 22- World Cup | The World of Dictators | 47/2/202638 min
- World Cup | The World Cup and the New World Order | 36/30/202635 min
- World Cup | Post Colonial World | 26/25/202641 min
- World Cup | Origins In Empire | 16/23/202645 min
- 1776 | America 250: What the Culture Says | 26/18/202637 min
- 1776 | The Legacy For Our Culture | 16/16/202641 min
- 1776 | The Women Washington Could Never Catch | 26/11/202637 min
- 1776 | The Founding Mothers | 16/9/202634 min
- Declaration of Independence | The Brand | 26/4/202636 min
- Declaration of Independence | Follow The Money | 16/2/202640 min
- Founding Fathers | Saints and Sinners | 45/28/202642 min
- Founding Fathers | The Original Brexit | 35/26/202640 min
- The Founding Fathers | The O.G.'s | 25/21/202635 min
- Founding Fathers | The invention of the United States | 15/19/202635 min
- Rasputin | How Rumour Broke an Empire | Feat. Sir Antony Beevor5/14/202639 min
- Diets | One Stomach Flu Away From My Goal Weight | 25/12/202642 min
- Diets | Three Eggs and a Bottle of Wine | 15/7/202635 min
- Mystics | Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man In The World | 35/5/202651 min
- Mystics | Helena Blavatsky's Karma | 24/30/202654 min
- Mystics | Nostradamus: The Arophecary | 14/28/202648 min