Epic space stories. Season 1: the first Moon landing, Apollo 11. Season 2: the near disaster of Apollo 13. Coming soon: Season 3, the space shuttle. Theme music: Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers Music.
These are stories you were never meant to hear. The invisible but vital work of the world’s intelligence services: secret operatives playing to very different rules. The Spy Who, hosted by Indira Varma and Raza Jaffrey, takes you deep inside that shadow world to meet spies who risked everything in the national interest – or, sometimes, their own.
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New on The History Podcast: We may know about Pearl Harbor and how the war against Japan ended with the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But in popular memory, what happened in between is less well-known. Marking the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, we hear of how defeat turned to victory, from epic battles in jungles, to one that played out on a tennis court and saved the British Empire, through remarkable testimonies from British, Indian, and Japanese soldiers who were there, as well as former prisoners of war and civilian internees. Plus we speak to descendants across Britain who are uncovering a family member's story of heroism, imprisonment, and survival.
Rory Stewart with a radical take on the concepts that shape our lives.
Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.
The course of history never follows a straight line. And very often, we can pinpoint a remarkable, thrilling twist, which changes everything that follows. These are the epic stories that have shaped the world we now live in.
From Ballen Studios, join us - for the most heart pounding podcast in history.
New episodes every Wednesday.
"Ono što izučavanje istorije čini zdravim i plodonosnim jeste upravo to što ti dozvoljava da vidiš poučne primere uzidane u spomenik slave; tu je tebi i državi dato da vidiš kakve primere treba podržavati, a šta treba izbegavati jer je sramno i po pobudama i po posledicama", kaže Tit Livije. Međutim, to je samo jedan, minimalni i potrebi razlog, bavljenja istorijom.
No, verujući u Tolkinove reči da "starina sama po sebi poseduje privlačnost", podkast Višak istorije ima za cilj da donese pred publiku "što više istorije", da doprinese nastojanju da se priče "o velikim i divnim delima" (Herodot) prošlosti slavnih naroda i div-heroja sačuvaju od zaborava.
Danas na svetu živi između pet i sedam procenata ljudi koji su ikada živeli na ovoj planeti. U ostalih devedeset i kusur odsto pohranjena su neizmerno bogata iskustva i znanja, koja je nemoguće naukom obuhvatiti. Zato ovde Višak istorije, nije toliko izraz nekog naučnog poduhvata, već pokušaj da se priča o titanima na čijim ramenima stojimo, ponovo ispriča.
Autor podkasta je Tiosav Purić, Podkast se emituje svake nedelje u 19 časova.
