Your History
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 (99)
Umpire Dickie Bird
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Physicist Rainer Weiss
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Robert Redford - actor, director, activist
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Ricky Hatton - champion boxer
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The Duchess of Kent
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Giorgio Armani - fashion revolutionary
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Major General Brian Pennicott - Falklands veteran
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Stuart Prebble - 'Grumpy Old Men'
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Joan Anderson - Hula Hoop Originator
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Terence Stamp - actor
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Biddy Baxter - The brains behind Blue Peter
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Jim Lovell - Apollo 13 commander
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Dame Stella Rimington - first female head of MI5
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Allan Ahlberg - Children's Author
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Margot Friedländer - Holocaust survivor
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Hulk Hogan - WWE Superstar
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Ozzy Osbourne
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Muhammadu Buhari - Former President of Nigeria
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Peter Phillips - pop artist
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Lord Tebbit
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Sandy Gall - foreign correspondent
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Nina Kuscsik - pioneering marathoner
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Madeleine Kasket - classical music publicist
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David "Syd" Lawrence - cricketer
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Piano legend Alfred Brendel
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Gerry Francis - footballer and change maker
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Brian Wilson
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Richard Garwin, creator of the hydrogen bomb
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Michael Tretow - Abba's fifth member
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The world's photographer, Sebastião Salgado
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The Bolshoi's Yuri Grigorovich
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Joseph Nye - The creator of 'soft power'
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Karen Durbin - feminist journalist
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David Thomas - founder of Pere Ubu
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Virginia Giuffre
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Anne Harper - A Political Firebrand
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Pope Francis
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Mario Vargas Llosa - A giant of Latin American literature
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Clem Burke - Blondie’s Beating Heart
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Captain Richard Farnfield - Cold War Submarine Commander
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Val Kilmer - A Hollywood Firecracker
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Constable Trevor Lock - Hero of the Iranian Embassy Siege
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Anne Frank - Her 80th Anniversary
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Primrose Dunlop - Australian Socialite and Countess.
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George Foreman - The Heavyweight Champion
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Eddie Jordan - A Formula 1 Legend
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Andrée Dumon - Comet Line agent who helped Allied airmen
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'Nutella' and Francesco Rivella
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Tuppy Owens - Sex campaigner
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The People's Painter - Jack Vettriano
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