I Was There

I Was There

Historic moments from history told by those who lived through them.

Episodes

May 21, 2019 17 mins

Chris Warburton talks to Niki Lauda, 39 years since he crashed his Ferrari at the Nürburgring Grand Prix in Germany. Former F1 drivers Mario Andretti and John Watson, who both also raced that year, share their memories of the crash and that famous season.

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Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again. Anna speaks to the actor PHILIP MICHAEL, dancer LYDIA LOUISA and Assistant Director CHRIS NEWMAN who all helped to make the original Mamma Mia! a success.

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January 5, 2018 20 mins

Chris Warburton is celebrates the 70th Anniversary of the BBC's Sports Report.

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December 19, 2017 21 mins

Steve Lillywhite, who produced the song, speaks to Adrian.

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December 5, 2017 25 mins

Members of the legendary Jamaican bobsleigh team – whose heroic endeavours at the Calgary Winter Olympics of 1988 became a hit Hollywood film – join Adrian Chiles to remember how they ended up competing at the games.

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November 21, 2017 20 mins

Two squatters from the legendary London 1970s squatting community Frestonia tell Adrian Chiles how it all started, what it was like - and how it ended.

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November 14, 2017 23 mins

Three people who were caught up in the devastating fire on the London Underground – a passenger, a firefighter and a news reporter – tell Adrian Chiles about their memories of the disaster, which killed 31 people.

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November 7, 2017 24 mins

Arsenal’s Lee Dixon, Liverpool’s John Aldridge and TV analyser David Pleat join Adrian Chiles as they remember the famous title-deciding clash which saw Arsenal snatch the title from Liverpool with a stunning 2-0 win, including Michael Thomas’s last-minute goal.

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October 31, 2017 24 mins

The writer, director and one of the producers join Adrian Chiles to discuss the controversial BBC programme, that aired on Halloween 1992.

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October 17, 2017 23 mins

In 2007, Bryn and Emma Parry visited a military hospital. They saw a need to help British servicemen and woman with their injuries. They tell Adrian Chiles about setting up the charity, and what the early days were like.

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October 10, 2017 23 mins

Polly and Hanabeth both survived the 2002 terror attack on the dream holiday island. They tell Adrian Chiles what happened, and we discover how their stories overlap.

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September 26, 2017 43 mins

Stars including Phillip Schofield, Sarah Green, Trev and the man behind Gordon the Gopher tell Adrian Chiles what it was like working on the legendary Saturday morning TV show, 30 years after it first launched.

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September 19, 2017 22 mins

We go back a quarter of a century to the longest siege in modern history

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September 5, 2017 24 mins

The BBC's Technology correspondent, Rory Cellan Jones, and Jeff Jarvis, author of 'What Would Google Do?', join Adrian Chiles to talk about the foundation of tech giant Google.

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August 29, 2017 36 mins

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 the news of Diana’s death to the nation on 31 August 1997.

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July 25, 2017 29 mins

Three gay men tell Adrian Chiles how the 1967 decriminalisation affected them in different ways – including a 94-year-old man, who hid his double life until his 80s.

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July 18, 2017 23 mins

In 2010, in a small village near Gateshead, Raoul Moat shot & injured his ex-girlfriend & killed her new partner. For a week after the shootings he was on the run from the police.

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Adrian Chiles speaks to those who were part of the making of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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May 16, 2017 19 mins

Adrian Chiles talks to those involved with the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay as it traveled round the whole of the United Kingdom.

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April 21, 2017 20 mins

We retell the extraordinary events of 1983, and one of Britain’s biggest-ever robberies.

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