Your History

By: The Times
  • Summary

  • 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.

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Episodes
  • 'Nutella' and Francesco Rivella
    Mar 14 2025
    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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    7 mins
  • Tuppy Owens: Sex campaigner
    Mar 11 2025
    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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    8 mins
  • The People's Painter - Jack Vettriano
    Mar 6 2025
    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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    9 mins

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