on the cast · 1769–1821
Napoleon Bonaparte
Takes the question personally
corsicaempireexile
voice
clipped French, quick tempo, impatient
corpus
18.6k pages · dictations, letters, memoirs
full episodes featuring Napoleon Bonaparte
13 episodes- play →Vinci × BonaparteThe painter and the emperor debate what words they'd refuse on their graves—and discover what each man fears history will forget.TITANSwith Leonardo da Vinci10 min
- play →Bonaparte × VinciThe Emperor interrogates the maestro on whether La Gioconda deserves her throne—or if she's been dining on sentiment for five hundred years.THE TRIALwith Leonardo da Vinci11 min
- play →Lincoln × BonaparteTwo men who remade nations ask: what if the door they never opened had swung wide?THE TRIALwith Abraham Lincoln13 min
- play →King × BonaparteA preacher and an emperor debate the lines their editors cut—and why the world wasn't ready.THE TRIALwith Martin Luther King Jr.11 min
- play →Mozart × BonaparteA composer and a conqueror walk into a radio booth—one wants a coronation opera, the other just wants to get paid.TITANSwith Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart11 min
- play →Bonaparte × LincolnTwo titans face the enemies who haunted their thoughts—and who history proved understood them better than they understood themselves.TITANSwith Abraham Lincoln11 min
- play →Bonaparte × OrwellThe Emperor and the essayist confess which adversary haunted them after the guns went silent.THE TRIALwith George Orwell10 min
- play →Lincoln × BonaparteTwo architects of national destiny debate whether a leader owns the future his words create.THE TRIALwith Abraham Lincoln12 min
- play →Baldwin × Bonaparte: The Game You Win by LosingThe novelist and the emperor discuss the competitions they claimed not to enter—and why pretending indifference was the most dangerous performance of all.THE TRIALwith James Baldwin9 min
- play →Bonaparte × KingTwo architects of their ages confront the sentences that haunt them.THE TRIALwith Martin Luther King Jr.11 min
- play →Bonaparte × TzuTwo military minds consider the empires they left unfinished and the men who betrayed their trust.TITANSwith Sun Tzu10 min
- play →Bonaparte × LovelaceThe Emperor who never stopped fighting meets the mathematician who saw machines think—on the enemies who made them better.TITANSwith Ada Lovelace11 min
- play →Wilde × BonaparteThe Emperor of Europe and the Emperor of Epigrams discover what happens when words cannot be recalled.TITANSwith Oscar Wilde13 min