Joan of Arc | The Birth of a Saint | 4

Joan's last-minute change of heart seals her fate. She faces the end with her usual indomitable spirit, while the King a...

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Joan of Arc | The Birth of a Saint | 4

Joan's last-minute change of heart seals her fate. She faces the end with her usual indomitable spirit, while the King and country she’s given her life for, turn their backs. What is the true legacy of this girl who didn’t even make it out of her teens, but whose courage has inspired us for centuries?

Legacy Episodes

86 episodes

Joan of Arc | The Birth of a Saint | 4

00:41:06 Oct 16

Joan's last-minute change of heart seals her fate. She faces...

Joan of Arc | Trial by Fire | 3

00:47:19 Oct 16

The march on Paris ends in failure and Joan’s star is beginn...

Joan of Arc | The Girl Who Made a King | 2

00:46:29 Oct 16

Joan's prophecy seems to be coming true. She's liberated Orl...

Joan of Arc | The Maid of Orleans | 1

00:48:18 Oct 16

Joan of Arc is an ordinary French girl, unbothered by the wa...

Stalin | The Stain of Stalin | 4

00:44:10 Oct 16

Stalin's paranoia and violence knows no bounds - even when i...

Stalin | Fighting Hitler | 3

00:44:06 Oct 16

When Hitler breaks their deal and attacks the Soviet Union,...

Stalin | The Terror | 2

00:42:49 Oct 16

With the Bolsheviks in power, Stalin becomes Lenin's right h...

Stalin | The Georgian Bandit | 1

00:43:00 Oct 16

A violent childhood in Georgia, then part of the vast Russia...

Freud | Goodnight Vienna | 4

00:47:56 Oct 16

After his beloved daughter, Anna, is taken by the Gestapo, F...

Freud | Battle of The Egos | 3

00:47:09 Oct 16

Professor Freud is now famous, his ideas part of the zeitgei...

Freud | A Meeting Of Minds | 2

00:46:20 Oct 16

Freud may have devised a new revolutionary method, ‘psychoan...

Freud | Mommy's Boy | 1

00:49:01 Oct 16

The Oedipus complex, Freudian slip, repression, the ego and...

John Lennon | Imagine | 4

00:44:43 Oct 16

Has Lennon's muse abandoned him? After years of no recording...

John Lennon | All You Need is Love | 3

00:50:45 Oct 16

Lennon meets the woman who will change his life: Yoko Ono. T...

John Lennon | Love Me Do | 2

00:52:40 Oct 16

John Lennon and The Beatles rise from obscurity to success w...

John Lennon | The Boy Everyone Wanted | 1

00:50:56 Oct 16

A tug of love sees the young John Lennon pulled between his...

Genghis Khan | The Final Campaign | 4

00:41:31 Oct 16

The great Genghis Khan is dead, his burial place one of the...

Genghis Khan | Sackings and Slaughter | 3

00:41:38 Oct 16

After victory in China, Genghis Khan goes west and takes on...

Genghis Khan | The Unstoppable Khan | 2

00:46:22 Oct 16

The many Mongolian tribes are now under the control of one m...

Genghis Khan | Survival of the Fittest | 1

00:47:52 Oct 16

As a young boy on the Mongolian steppes, Temujin (not yet Ge...

Marie Antoinette | The Grim Finale | 4

00:38:38 Oct 16

Louis XVI has been executed and now Marie Antoinette herself...

Marie Antoinette | At The Mercy of The Mob | 3

00:45:30 Oct 16

Fresh from storming the Bastille, the revolutionaries are co...

Marie Antoinette | Queen of Scandal | 2

00:43:38 Oct 16

Now 18 and Queen of France, Marie's raison d'être is to prod...

Marie Antoinette | A Princess and a Pawn | 1

00:43:30 Oct 16

Married off at the age of 14 in her mother’s very own Game o...

Charles Dickens | The Final Curtain | 4

00:44:13 Oct 16

At the height of his fame, Dickens falls in love with a youn...

Legacy and British Scandal Special: The Scandalous Life of Charles Dickens | 5

00:47:37 Oct 16

Peter and Afua go on the British Scandal podcast hosted by M...

Charles Dickens | A Very Dickens Christmas | 3

00:52:21 Oct 16

“A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, everyone!” A Chr...

Charles Dickens | Dickensmania | 2

00:49:08 Oct 16

Dickens’ star is on the rise. Sketches by Boz is a success a...

Charles Dickens | Hard Times | 1

00:47:25 Oct 16

A young Charles is filled with imagination and ambition, but...

Winston Churchill | Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat | 4

00:36:03 Oct 16

The war is won but the nation seems far from grateful as the...

Winston Churchill | His Finest Hour | 3

00:48:18 Oct 16

It’s 1939 and Churchill has been proved right in his fervent...

Winston Churchill | The Unsinkable Politician | 2

00:47:23 Oct 16

The First World War sees Churchill as confident as ever in h...

Winston Churchill | Born To Rule | 1

00:45:30 Oct 16

One of the most famous leaders of the twentieth century, Win...

John F. Kennedy | Camelot Comes Crashing Down | 4

00:43:32 Oct 16

Arguably the most famous political assassination of the 20th...

John F. Kennedy | Clash of The Cold Warriors | 3

00:52:20 Oct 16

For the White House and the Kremlin, the question of nuclear...

John F. Kennedy | Violence at Home and Abroad | 2

00:53:49 Oct 16

As the Kennedys face tragedy after tragedy, JFK becomes awar...

John F. Kennedy | The Poor Little Rich Boy | 1

00:48:26 Oct 16

The son of a rich and prestigious family, John F. Kennedy’s...

Marilyn Monroe | Who Killed the Movie Star? | 4

00:28:53 Oct 16

Marilyn's death sparks grief, soul-searching and mystery - m...

Marilyn Monroe | Drama, Drink and Drugs | 3

00:47:10 Oct 16

At the peak of her fame, Marilyn takes on the studios in a b...

Marilyn Monroe | Becoming Marilyn | 2

00:46:54 Oct 16

The struggling starlet is exploited by the powerful executiv...

Marilyn Monroe | The Foster Kid Who Loved The Movies | 1

00:40:13 Oct 16

The young Marilyn Monroe has a traumatic childhood in and ou...

Encore: Cecil Rhodes | Must Rhodes Fall? | 4

00:35:05 Oct 16

More than a century after Rhodes' death students in South Af...

Encore: Cecil Rhodes | A Brooding Spirit | 3

00:33:11 Oct 16

Rhodes deals with the fallout from the Jameson Raid as quest...

Encore: Cecil Rhodes | The Rise of Rhodesia | 2

00:41:03 Oct 16

Rhodes dashes back to Kimberley to be with his dying friend....

Encore: Cecil Rhodes | Eureka! | 1

00:45:25 Oct 16

We've delved into the Legacy archives to bring back one of o...

Bob Marley | One Love | 4

00:43:54 Oct 16

Despite an assassination attempt, Bob Marley continues to sp...

Bob Marley | Catching Fire | 3

00:43:20 Oct 16

Songs like 'Get Up Stand Up' and 'No Woman, No Cry' garner i...

Bob Marley | The Rise of the Rasta | 2

00:45:40 Oct 16

Bob Marley, now in his early 20s and part of the newly-named...

Bob Marley | The Captain's Son | 1

00:43:59 Oct 16

Born in colonial-era Jamaica to a black teenage mum and an a...

Hoover | The Deep State Lives On | 4

00:37:02 Oct 16

Hoover wrote the playbook used by many of today's politician...

Hoover | Civil Rights and Dirty Tricks | 3

00:47:49 Oct 16

FBI spying reaches new depths, as Hoover persecutes civil ri...

Hoover | Guns, Gangsters and G-Men | 2

00:48:04 Oct 16

Rumours about Hoover's sexuality threaten to overshadow his...

Hoover | The Library Clerk Who Became All Powerful | 1

00:44:45 Oct 16

As a young boy, J Edgar Hoover strives for perfection and co...

Margaret Thatcher | We’re All Thatcherites Now | 4

00:56:33 Oct 16

Stabbed in the back by her Tory allies, Thatcher is forced t...

Margaret Thatcher | Strikes, Bombs, & Selling the Silver | 3

00:51:07 Oct 16

Conflict is never far from Thatcher's politics - and life. S...

Margaret Thatcher | Cuts, Riots, & War | 2

00:52:18 Oct 16

As Britain's first female Prime Minister, Thatcher has made...

Margaret Thatcher | The Making of the Iron Lady | 1

00:57:04 Oct 16

The daughter of a methodist shopkeeper, Margaret Thatcher ha...

Cleopatra | The Last Pharaoh of Egypt | 4

00:45:31 Oct 16

From Shakespeare to Netflix, Cleopatra's life and death has...

Cleopatra | Bling...and Bloodshed | 3

00:50:36 Oct 16

Cleopatra emerges victorious after a series of battles and s...

Cleopatra | The Courageous Queen | 2

00:46:48 Oct 16

Cleopatra's future hangs in the balance, but there is one pe...

Cleopatra | A Taste for Betrayal | 1

00:41:17 Oct 16

Cleopatra is born into a life of luxury - and violence. Beau...

Alan Turing | A Forgotten Hero | 4

00:32:55 Oct 16

Alan Turing’s life is tragically cut short. And his crucial...

Alan Turing | Illegal Love | 3

00:35:55 Oct 16

Turing returns to a normal social life after the war, where...

Alan Turing | Cracking the Code | 2

00:48:13 Oct 16

The stakes are high for Turing and his team of codebreakers...

Alan Turing | An Awkward Genius | 1

00:52:27 Oct 16

A curious bookish boy, Alan Turing is already an outsider at...

Nina Simone | Rebirth | 4

00:37:13 Oct 16

The tide is turning for Nina Simone. A new generation falls...

Nina Simone | Breakdown | 3

00:40:23 Oct 16

Amidst marital and financial problems, Nina escapes the US f...

Nina Simone | To Be Young, Gifted and Black | 2

00:47:36 Oct 16

Nina Simone's star is rising - however cracks in her persona...

Nina Simone | The Road to Carnegie Hall | 1

00:48:44 Oct 16

Born in the Jim Crow South, Nina Simone's talent is obvious...

Gorbachev | The Man Who Lost an Empire | 4

00:38:21 Oct 16

Under Gorbachev's leadership the once sprawling empire that...

Gorbachev | Meltdown | 3

00:40:08 Oct 16

On a spring morning in 1986 one of the most catastrophic eve...

Gorbachev | Shutting Down the Cold War | 2

00:38:41 Oct 16

With the levers of power now in his control, Gorbachev steps...

Gorbachev | The Boy from Stavropol | 1

00:38:45 Oct 16

Shaped by the brutality of the Stalin regime, Gorbachev’s ch...

Picasso | Drawing Lessons | 4

00:40:51 Oct 16

A bombshell memoir by a former lover annoys and embarrasses...

Picasso | The Weeping Woman | 3

00:34:48 Oct 16

Death is ever more present in Picasso’s work, as horrific ev...

Picasso | The Muse | 2

00:45:39 Oct 16

Picasso finds inspiration in an unlikely setting and changes...

Picasso | Bullfights, Brothels & Bohemia | 1

00:43:20 Oct 16

His father wants him to become a great classical painter, bu...

Cecil Rhodes | Must Rhodes Fall? | 4

00:35:08 Oct 16

More than a century after Rhodes' death students in South Af...

Cecil Rhodes | A Brooding Spirit | 3

00:33:11 Oct 16

Rhodes deals with the fallout from the Jameson Raid as quest...

Cecil Rhodes | The Rise of Rhodesia | 2

00:41:03 Oct 16

Rhodes dashes back to Kimberley to be with his dying friend....

Cecil Rhodes | Eureka! | 1

00:43:35 Oct 16

A sickly vicar’s son travels from England to Africa to join...

Napoleon | The Emperor & The Duke | 4

00:34:12 Oct 16

After escaping exile on Elba, Napoleon marches back to power...

Napoleon | Clash of Empires | 3

00:37:07 Oct 16

Napoleon’s military success has cowed a continent but, in Ru...

Napoleon | Charlemagne's Crown | 2

00:42:40 Oct 16

It’s not enough for Napoleon to dominate France. He fights r...

Napoleon | Vive La Revolution | 1

00:41:44 Oct 16

A Corsican boy, an outsider, seizes his chance to make a nam...

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