{"podcast":{"title":"Legacy","slug":"legacy-6673187","podcast_index_feed_id":6673187,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/68e4c0be965488b63a6987c5","website_url":"https://wondery.com/shows/legacy/?utm_source=rss","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/68e4c0be965488b63a6987c5/1769609822433-03c5fb3c-c526-4fb3-94af-0f0a1d20a738.jpeg","author":"Original Legacy Productions","episode_count":159,"summary":"Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan tell the wild stories of some of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived – and ask whether they have the rep they deserve. Should Nina Simone’s role in the civil rights movement be more celebrated than it is? When you find out what Picasso got up to in his studio, can you still admire his art? Was Napoleon a hero or a tyrant - or both? (And, while we’re at it, was he even short?) Legacy is the show that looks at big lives from the perspective of now – and doesn’t always like what it sees. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-23T12:18:46.780803+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/legacy-6673187"},"episode":{"title":"The Founding Fathers | The O.G.'s | 2","slug":"the-founding-fathers-the-o-g-s-2","published_at":"2026-05-21T02:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/legacy-6673187/the-founding-fathers-the-o-g-s-2","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/legacy-6673187","url":"https://shows.acast.com/originallegacy/episodes/the-founding-fathers-the-ogs-2","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e4c0be965488b63a6987c5/e/6a0db2ca96570bc138617c88/media.mp3","summary":"What turned America's most famous British loyalist into its most dangerous revolutionary? What does a public humiliation in a Whitehall chamber have to do with the Declaration of Independence? And, if the man who designed the American constitution believed men were angels, would he have bothered? Peter and Afua trace how a candle-maker's son who pulled lightning from the sky and a sickly scholar obsessed with the fall of Rome built the architecture of the most powerful republic in history. 0:00 Franklin: the 18th century's global multimedia superstar 6:10 Poor Richard's Almanac and the art of building a platform from scratch 9:45 From kite and key to the Royal Society — Franklin's lightning moment 13:20 A proud Briton in London: the comfortable life that couldn't last 16:00 The Hutchinson letters, a Whitehall ambush, and an hour of public savaging 18:30 The moment Franklin stopped thinking of himself as British 21:00 Enter James Madison: the smallest man in public life and the biggest thinker 24:30 Two thousand years of history as a laboratory of political failure 28:00 Taxation without representation, the Intolerable Acts, and the radicalisation of Madison 31:30 'If men were angels, no government would be necessary' Join Legacy Plus for bonus episodes, early access, Q&A's, fewer adverts and more. legacy.supportingcast.fm Stay connected with Legacy: Instagram: @originallegacypodcast TikTok: @legacy_productions Explore more from Peter and Afua — essays, sources, and ideas: Substack: peterfrankopan.substack.com | afuahirsch.substack.com Join Legacy+ for bonus episodes, early access, Q&A's, fewer adverts and more. legacy.supportingcast.fm Stay connected with Legacy: Instagram: @originallegacypodcast TikTok: @legacy_productions Explore more from Peter and Afua — es…","meta_description":"What turned America's most famous British loyalist into its most dangerous revolutionary? What does a public humiliation in a Whitehall chamber have to do…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2095,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/legacy-6673187/episodes/the-founding-fathers-the-o-g-s-2/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/legacy-6673187/the-founding-fathers-the-o-g-s-2.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}