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The Late Book: The Darkroom at Longwood - a Voyage to St Helena: Part 1

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By Jean-Paul Kauffmann, read by Simon Russell Beale and abridged in five parts by Jill Waters.

Following his surrender after the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to St Helena. Kauffmann spent a week on the remote Atlantic island, absorbing the presence of the general who spent his last days as a prisoner in a house named Longwood.
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Author:
Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Reader:
Simon Russell Beale
Abridged by:
Jill Waters
Producer:
Chris Wallis
Source: Radio Times

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