Filmmaker Ridley Scott’s movie on Napoleon Bonaparte is an ambitious portrayal of a man considered to be one of the greatest military commanders in history. It’s also the worst film that Adam has ever seen. In this episode, Adam and Cameron discuss the movie and the man—including his economic policies.
https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/napoleon-the-movie-and-the-man/
Pretty standard stuff with the usual modern agenda about slavery (N was just trying to appease a key group of supporters as all unstable regimes do). It did however mention that key problem of war not actually paying for war. I was also interested to discover how Jimmy Somerville and (the now Reverend) Richard Coles came up with the name for their duo (Ricky Gervais was in a duo called Seona Dancing, named after a fellow student of mine, who lasted one year).