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Napoleon Season on Radio 3
The Radio 3 Napoleon Season marks two hundred years since his retreat from Moscow.
Tolstoy and Napoleon—Sunday Feature, On Napoleon
Rosamund Bartlett explores the truth and the fiction of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
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Watch an analysis of Beethoven's 'Eroica'—Discovering Music, Beethoven: Symphony No 3 (Eroica)
Stephen Johnson explores Beethoven's Third Symphony in E flat, the Eroica.
Julia Blackburn—The Essay, Napoleon and Me
Julia Blackburn looks for the ghost of Napoleon on St Helena, where he died in exile.
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Adam Nicolson—The Essay, Napoleon and Me
Writer Adam Nicolson recalls being a teenager as father wrote about Napoleon and 1812.
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Kirsteen McCue—The Essay, Napoleon and Me
Kirsteen McCue discusses singing and interpreting James Hogg's Scottish Napoleonic songs.
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Mark Adkin—The Essay, Napoleon and Me
Mark Adkin discusses being a military historian in the footsteps of Napoleon.
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Stendhal and Napoleon—Sunday Feature, On Napoleon
Andy Martin on how Stendahl followed Napoleon across Europe in 1812 and changed fiction.
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