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BBC2’s Napoleon reviewed: does Andrew Roberts’s pet Frog need rehabilitating?

Doesn’t everyone know that Napoleon was the most brilliant and inspirational generals ever?

13 June 2015

9:00 AM

13 June 2015

9:00 AM

I adore Andrew Roberts. We go back a long way. Once, on a boating expedition gone wrong in the south of France, we had a bonding moment almost Brokeback Mountain-esque in its bromantic intensity.

Roberts had hired an expensive speedboat for the day (as Andrew Roberts would) and we’d left very little time to get it back to harbour and avoid being stung for a massive surcharge.

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