BBC Radio Podcasts from Napoleon: The Man and the Myths

Episode 5

Napoleon ended his life on a distant island. Andrew Roberts asks what history made of him.

Andrew Roberts explains why Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo.

Andrew Roberts considers Napoleon's reputation as the principal warmonger of the age.

Did Napoleon turn France into a military dictatorship? Historian Andrew Roberts considers.

Was Napoleon really the short, uncouth, Corsican upstart portrayed by caricaturists?