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 99 episodes available.

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September 18, 2024 James Earl Jones, Alberto Fujimori and Sérgio Mendes
James Earl Jones, the multi-award winning actor best-known as the voice of Darth Vader; Alberto Fujimori, former Peruvian President and one of the most controversial figures in post-war Latin American politics; and pioneering Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes, the master of the bossa nova.
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September 10, 2024 Derek Boshier and Helen Fisher
Derek Boshier, amongst the first artists to propel British pop art, his work supported by the likes of David Bowie and contemporary David Hockney. And the life of Helen Fisher, one of America’s most prominent anthropologists who's studied the science of romantic love, attachment, adultery, divorce, and the evolution and future of family life.
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18min
September 03, 2024 A Prima Ballerina, German Football Manager & a Modern-day Caveman
Three extraordinary lives today: Rowena Jackson, New Zealand’s first prima ballerina; Willi Lemke, the German politician turned football manager; and Michel Siffre, the French geologist who lost track of time after living in a dark cave for 1,500 hours.
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21min
August 27, 2024 England Manager Sven-Göran Eriksson & Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie
Sven-Göran Eriksson managed England's so-called "Golden Generation". And while his success was limited, he brought perspective, respect and a calmness that was before missing. And the life of Virginia Ogilvy, Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II.
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23min
August 23, 2024 Tech Entrepreneur Mike Lynch
A special profile of Mike Lynch, one of Britain's most celebrated tech entrepreneurs, who lived for years under investigation by U.S. prosecutors until his acquittal just months ago.
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10min
August 20, 2024 French Actor Alain Delon & WWII Platoon Commander Brian Wilson
Alain Delon was once dubbed the most beautiful man in the world and modelled himself on being a French James Dean, but his life was full of scandal. He cosied up to criminals in the underworld and the hard right of French politics. Plus, we explore the life of Lieutenant Brian Wilson, who narrowly survived Operation Market Garden - one of the Allied forces worst defeats of WWII.

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23min
August 13, 2024 The Father of Grappa & How to Critique Freud
Italian, Benito Nonino played a key part in elevating what was once seen as an uncouth grappa into a premium beverage. And we look back at Sigmund Freud's life and work through the eyes of one of his greatest critics, Frederick Crews.
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20min
August 06, 2024 A Vietnam War Criminal & The Queen's Private Secretary
Second Lieutenant William Calley was the sole person convicted for the 1968 My Lai massacre: US forces indiscriminately killed as many as 500 unarmed Vietnamese villagers. And we hear about the career of Lord Robert Fellowes, Queen Elizabeth II's private secretary during a tumultuous period of divorces in the Royal Family and Princess Diana's death.
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28min
July 30, 2024 Novelist Edna O'Brien & Designer Sir Kenneth Grange
In 1960, Ireland’s minister for culture pronounced Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, “a smear on Irish womanhood”. Over time she would come to be hailed as one of the country’s most gifted writers. And we celebrate the life and work of Sir Kenneth Grange who, as a designer, created objects that changed the way we live.
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23min
July 23, 2024 Snooker Champion Ray Reardon & Aid Worker Simon Boas
Ray Reardon was one of Britain’s best-known sportsmen, but when he was honoured at Buckingham Palace in 1985 with an MBE for services to snooker, the Queen enquired: “And what do you do?” What he did, was win, triumphing in the World Snooker Championship six times. And we marvel at the life of aid worker Simon Boas, whose candid reflections on his terminal cancer diagnosis moved millions of people around the world.
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21min

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The podcast currently has 99 episodes available.

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