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HISTORY This Week

HISTORY This Week – Series Trailer

HISTORY This Week

The HISTORY® Channel | Back Pocket Studios

Society & Culture, History

4.54.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

What happened this week 50 years ago? 100 years ago? 1,000?

Listen to HISTORY This Week every Monday to discover for yourself.

To stay updated: historythisweekpodcast.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

History this week.

0:01.8

The year 79.

0:03.5

You're an ancient Roman going about your business in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupts.

0:09.7

Will you have time to escape?

0:13.3

1974.

0:14.5

You are Richard Nixon hunkered down in the Oval Office.

0:17.7

Your allies have called for you to resign.

0:20.4

What do you do next?

0:23.6

1993. You're using a computer the size of an air conditioner. But for the first time, your computer can talk to another computer. How did we get the Internet?

0:35.5

I'm Sally Helm, and this is History This Week, a podcast that serves as your eyes and ears into history's biggest events.

0:42.3

But we also bring you into the smaller behind-the-scenes moments, uncovering the unsung heroes, secret meetings, even personal grudges that change the course of history.

0:52.6

Listen to History This Week, a History Channel podcast from Backpocket Studios,

0:56.3

available now for free on the Odyssey app and wherever you get your podcasts.

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