What topics does Your History cover?

Your History covers topics including: history, society, culture.

Your History

EN135 episodes

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Your History is a podcast based on the life stories of people who have shaped the times we live in. These are fascinating stories based on the daily obituaries in The Times offering remarkable insights about contemporary history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes (135)

Umpire Dickie Bird

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Physicist Rainer Weiss

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Robert Redford - actor, director, activist

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Your History

Episodes (135)

Umpire Dickie Bird

Physicist Rainer Weiss

Robert Redford - actor, director, activist

Ricky Hatton - champion boxer

The Duchess of Kent

Giorgio Armani - fashion revolutionary

Major General Brian Pennicott - Falklands veteran

Stuart Prebble - 'Grumpy Old Men'

Joan Anderson - Hula Hoop Originator

Terence Stamp - actor

Biddy Baxter - The brains behind Blue Peter

Jim Lovell - Apollo 13 commander

Dame Stella Rimington - first female head of MI5

Allan Ahlberg - Children's Author

Margot Friedländer - Holocaust survivor

Hulk Hogan - WWE Superstar

Ozzy Osbourne

Muhammadu Buhari - Former President of Nigeria

Peter Phillips - pop artist

Lord Tebbit

Sandy Gall - foreign correspondent

Nina Kuscsik - pioneering marathoner

Madeleine Kasket - classical music publicist

David "Syd" Lawrence - cricketer

Piano legend Alfred Brendel

Gerry Francis - footballer and change maker

Brian Wilson

Richard Garwin, creator of the hydrogen bomb

Michael Tretow - Abba's fifth member

The world's photographer, Sebastião Salgado

The Bolshoi's Yuri Grigorovich

Joseph Nye - The creator of 'soft power'

Karen Durbin - feminist journalist

David Thomas - founder of Pere Ubu

Virginia Giuffre

Anne Harper - A Political Firebrand

Pope Francis

Mario Vargas Llosa - A giant of Latin American literature

Clem Burke - Blondie’s Beating Heart

Captain Richard Farnfield - Cold War Submarine Commander

Val Kilmer - A Hollywood Firecracker

Constable Trevor Lock - Hero of the Iranian Embassy Siege

Anne Frank - Her 80th Anniversary

Primrose Dunlop - Australian Socialite and Countess.

George Foreman - The Heavyweight Champion

Eddie Jordan - A Formula 1 Legend

Andrée Dumon - Comet Line agent who helped Allied airmen

'Nutella' and Francesco Rivella

Tuppy Owens - Sex campaigner

The People's Painter - Jack Vettriano