Summary
Historian Alex von Tunzelmann shines a light on remarkable people from across history. Join her for stories of bold voices, with brave ideas and the courage to stand alone.
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| 0:00.0 | Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy. |
| 0:05.1 | My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC. |
| 0:08.7 | It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs, |
| 0:13.5 | moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous. |
| 0:19.1 | And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music |
| 0:21.7 | means we can tell those stories like no one else. |
| 0:24.5 | We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative. |
| 0:28.6 | So whether you want an insightful take on music right now |
| 0:31.3 | or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music, |
| 0:36.1 | check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.8 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. Welcome to History's Heroes. The BBC's breathtaking, |
| 0:49.0 | high-stakes, story-led podcast shining a light on extraordinary people and ordinary people who became |
| 0:57.0 | extraordinary across history. I'm Alex von Tunselman. I'm a historian and you may have heard me |
| 1:03.6 | presenting the Radio 4 series The Lucan Obsession. I'm also the writer behind all the history's |
| 1:09.5 | heroes series. And I'm here to tell you all the History's Heroes series, |
| 1:15.1 | and I'm here to tell you about some astonishing news stories we have coming up. |
| 1:20.3 | If you're joining us for the first time, there's already so much to discover, |
| 1:24.3 | including 30 episodes of History's Secret Heroes, |
| 1:26.5 | narrated by Helena Bonham Carter. |
| 1:30.0 | It's World War II, and the stakes couldn't be higher. |
| 1:35.7 | There was just this piece of her she could never talk about, which was being a spy. |
| 1:39.1 | None of them knew that she'd lived this double life. |
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