Your History

By The Times

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 insight... more

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The podcast currently has 95 episodes available.

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March 24, 2025 George Foreman - The Heavyweight Champion
Two-time heavyweight champion and Olympic gold medalist who lost one of the most famous boxing matches in history on one night in an African jungle clearing. Later in life he became a devout Christian and returned to the ring to become the oldest champion ever at age forty five.

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March 20, 2025 Eddie Jordan - A Formula 1 Legend

Formula 1 legend who built a team from nothing and built it to win races, working with some of the leading drivers of his generation. But he was also a canny businessman with an eye for the deal.

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March 18, 2025 Andrée Dumon - Comet Line agent who helped Allied airmen
The Belgian agent was caught, beaten and sent to a concentration camp but survived to tell her story.
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March 14, 2025 'Nutella' and Francesco Rivella
How Francesco Rivella - a young chemist from Northern Italy - changed breakfast forever after spending ten years refining the recipe for Nutella.
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March 11, 2025 Tuppy Owens - Sex campaigner
The author of saucy sex guides linking fantasy and pornography while championing the right of everyone to have the sex life of their own choosing. The Associate Editor of The Times Magazine. Jane Mulkerrins tells the details - at least those we were able to print - of the life of Tuppy Owens.

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March 06, 2025 The People's Painter - Jack Vettriano
The self-taught 'people's painter' from Scotland who battled rejection from critics and art experts alike only to become one of the most successful artists in Britain.

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March 03, 2025 Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky
Glittering, attacking player who battled his American chess rival Bobby Fischer in a gripping world title match in 1972.

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February 27, 2025 Hollywood legend Gene Hackman
The two-time Oscar-winning actor starred in some of Hollywood’s most iconic films, including ‘The French Connection’ and ‘Unforgiven.

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February 25, 2025 Roberta Flack, legendary singer behind ‘Killing Me Softly’
The R&B singer was the first artist to win consecutive Grammy awards for record of the year, including for her hit The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.

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February 21, 2025 Suzanne Massie - 'the woman who ended the Cold War'
Suzanne Massie, an American scholar of Russian history who played an important role in the thawing of relations between US President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union in the 80s, and who some believe may have ‘helped to end the Cold War’.

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