In this The Rest is History Podcast, hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella, Heart of Darkness.

Heart of Darkness was the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now (1979) and is, Holland & Sandbrook contend, “one of the most celebrated literary works of all time, though now increasingly contentious”.

The discussion begins with a review of Conrad’s early years including being orphaned by age 11 and subsequently raised by relatives.