Niki Lauda speaks in 2015
Chris Warburton talks to Niki Lauda, 39 years since he crashed his Ferrari at the Nürburgring Grand Prix in Germany. Former F1 drivers Mario...
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I Was There
Historic moments from history told by those who lived through them.
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Listen to I Was There, a Society & Culture podcast by BBC. Stream 42 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 42 episodesMamma Mia: Here We Go Again
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again. Anna speaks to the actor PHILIP MICHAEL, dancer LYDIA LOUISA and Assistant Director CHRIS NEWMAN who all helped...
Sports Report at 70
Chris Warburton is celebrates the 70th Anniversary of the BBC's Sports Report.
Fairytale of New York
Steve Lillywhite, who produced the song, speaks to Adrian.
Cool Runnings
Members of the legendary Jamaican bobsleigh team – whose heroic endeavours at the Calgary Winter Olympics of 1988 became a hit Hollywood fil...
Frestonia
Two squatters from the legendary London 1970s squatting community Frestonia tell Adrian Chiles how it all started, what it was like - and ho...
King’s Cross disaster
Three people who were caught up in the devastating fire on the London Underground – a passenger, a firefighter and a news reporter – tell Ad...
Arsenal-Liverpool 1989
Arsenal’s Lee Dixon, Liverpool’s John Aldridge and TV analyser David Pleat join Adrian Chiles as they remember the famous title-deciding cla...
Ghostwatch
The writer, director and one of the producers join Adrian Chiles to discuss the controversial BBC programme, that aired on Halloween 1992.
Help for Heroes
In 2007, Bryn and Emma Parry visited a military hospital. They saw a need to help British servicemen and woman with their injuries. They tel...
Bali bombing
Polly and Hanabeth both survived the 2002 terror attack on the dream holiday island. They tell Adrian Chiles what happened, and we discover...
Going Live
Stars including Phillip Schofield, Sarah Green, Trev and the man behind Gordon the Gopher tell Adrian Chiles what it was like working on the...
The Siege of Sarajevo
We go back a quarter of a century to the longest siege in modern history
The launch of Google
The BBC's Technology correspondent, Rory Cellan Jones, and Jeff Jarvis, author of 'What Would Google Do?', join Adrian Chiles to talk about...
The death of Diana
Broadcasters and journalists – including Nik Gowing, who was on air on BBC 2 and was the first to break the news – recall how they announced...
Decriminalisation of homosexuality
Three gay men tell Adrian Chiles how the 1967 decriminalisation affected them in different ways – including a 94-year-old man, who hid his d...
Raoul Moat
In 2010, in a small village near Gateshead, Raoul Moat shot & injured his ex-girlfriend & killed her new partner. For a week after the shoot...
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Adrian Chiles speaks to those who were part of the making of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
2012 Olympic Torch Relay
Adrian Chiles talks to those involved with the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay as it traveled round the whole of the United Kingdom.
Brink’s-Mat robbery
We retell the extraordinary events of 1983, and one of Britain’s biggest-ever robberies.
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