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![Why the obsession with Napoleon? Why the obsession with Napoleon?](jpg/001e61e8-1200.jpg)
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As Ridley Scott's biopic opens in the cinemas, why is it that people are still so interested in the French leader, two centuries on from his death? Historian Laura O'Brien [Assoc. Prof. of Modern European History at Northumbria University] joined Brendan to answer the question.