Living Through History
by Purple Media Company
Welcome to Living Through History,where we embark on a captivating journey through the events, people, and stories that have shaped the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Join us as we unravel the intricate tapestry of modern history, exploring pivotal moments, cultural shifts, political revolutions, and technological breakthroughs that have defined our contemporary world. With expert interviews, firsthand accounts, and deep dives into archives, Living Through History offers a fresh perspective on the recent past, revealing the fascinating and sometimes surprising connections between yesterday and today. Whether you're a history enthusiast or simply curious about how we got to where we are now, this podcast will inspire your curiosity and deepen your understanding of the modern era. Living Through History Script: Federico Bettuzzi Production: Giovanni Zorzi <a target="_blank" rel="paym
Episodes
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BEIRUT 1983: Marine Barracks Bombing
Almost a quarter of a century after the first intervention, the Marines return to the Lebanese beaches, to Tripoli and above all to Beirut, first to facilitate the exit of the PLO fighters and then to try to reduce friction between the many souls of the civil war Lebanese. Peacekeeping, however…
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The Lebanon War
A paradise on earth, marvelous beaches, breathtaking landscapes, the castles of the Crusaders, multicultural traditions, and banking wealth likened to the "Switzerland of the Middle East." Lebanon in the early 1970s truly had everything to fulfill anyone's dreams, even those of a bankrupt like...
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The Tet Offensive
On January 31, 1968 according to the lunar calendar, the Year of the Monkey begins. And perfectly embodying the cunning and genius attributed in the Far East to this symbolic animal, General Võ Nguyên Giáp prepared a terrible surprise for the American, Australian and South Vietnamese soldiers:...
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Munich 1972
The Munich Massacre was a terrorist event that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics, in Munich, West Germany. A commando from the Palestinian socialist terrorist organization Black September broke into the accommodation intended for Israeli athletes in the Olympic village, immediately killing...
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Albert Speer
Als brillanter Architekt, Schüler großer Designer, zunächst unpolitisch, wurde Albert Speer in den 1930er Jahren Mitglied des engsten Kreises Hitlers. Zunächst als Designer der Bühnenbilder für die Ozeanparaden, dann als Renovierer großer öffentlicher Gebäude wurde Speer mit der Aufgabe betraut,...
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Albert Speer
A brilliant architect, student of great designers, initially apolitical, Albert Speer became a member of Hitler's inner circle in the 1930s. Initially as a designer of the sets for the ocean parades, then as a renovator of large public buildings, Speer was entrusted with the role of…
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Enver Hoxha
Living Through History,where we embark on a captivating journey through the events, people, and stories that have shaped the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Join us as we unravel the intricate tapestry of modern history, exploring pivotal moments, cultural shifts, political revolutions, and...
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Dune & The Mahadist War
Living Through History,where we embark on a captivating journey through the events, people, and stories that have shaped the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Join us as we unravel the intricate tapestry of modern history, exploring pivotal moments, cultural shifts, political revolutions, and...
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Mercenary Stories: CONGO
Mercenaries, fortune soldiers, fighters without a flag—there are different ways to define those who fight for compensation. After the end of the Second World War, the decolonization of Africa increasingly witnesses conflicts, uprisings, and coups. In newly independent Belgian Congo, two men, two...
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El PRONUNCIAMIENTO
A climate of violence, ambushes, and nighttime killings. And a final proclamation that leaves no room for interpretation but decrees only open conflict. On the morning of July 17, 1936, a plane lands in Melilla, on board is a high-ranking Spanish army officer arriving from the Canary Islands. His...
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The Turkish Invasion of Cyprus
In the common understanding, the term "ghost town" refers to abandoned and forgotten urban settlements. These are communities created by humans for specific purposes, often economic, and left by the communities that once inhabited them once their raison d'être was exhausted. Along the old Gold…
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day
79 years have passed since the entry of Red Army soldiers into Auschwitz. Since then, the world's admonition has been unanimous: "never again!". However, over the years, there have been phenomena of minimization, denial, and historical manipulation. In recent times, there have even been attempts…
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The Assassination Of Bashir Gemayel
Friends, a new country will be born in a matter of days. It will be a Lebanon that is strong, secure, and independent. I will be the one to ensure all these promises. As the new president, I assure you that...". The strong voice of the speaker on the stage is overshadowed by a deafening explosion...
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The Mistery Of Gunung Padang
In this episode, we take you to the heart of Gunung Padang to unveil the story of the world's oldest pyramid and the discovery that is revolutionizing everything we thought we knew about the origins of our history. This extraordinary finding has inevitably sparked a lively debate in the…
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Close to the downtrodden, a life dedicated to those who suffer, the Nobel Peace Prize, international recognition, and canonization a few years after her death. However, in the life of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, many questions still linger today, awaiting answers: why was her clinic in Calcutta...
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The Attack on the King David Hotel
From a luxury venue to a golden exile for heads of state, and eventually, the headquarters of a colonial administration. However, in the nearly century-long history of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, what stands out most is the attack on the morning of July 22, 1946, when a powerful explosive...
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The Safra Massacre
On July 7, 1980, a date that would go down in history as the Day of the Long Knives, soldiers of the Kataeb, led by Bashir Gemayel, had waited for Dany Chamoun, son of Camille and absolute commander of the Tigers, to leave the yacht club in Safra, the Tigers' base. They then launched an attack on...
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Operation THUNDERBOLT
At the origins of Benjamin Netanyahu's political and personal parable there is a historical fact that hit his family hard. At the beginning of the summer of 1976, the hijacking of an Air France flight in Entebbe ended with the spectacular liberation of the hostages at the cost of the death of a...
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The SIEGE Of Tel Al-Zataar
The siege of Tel al-Zaatar , alternatively known as the massacre of Tel al-Zaatar, was an armed siege of Tel al-Zaatar (meaning Hill of Thyme in Arabic), a fortified, UNRWA-administered refugee camp housing Palestinian refugees in northeastern Beirut, that ended on August 12, 1976 with the…
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The SHADOWS on the Pontificate of POPE John Paul II - Part 2
A pontificate lasting 27 years, a period from 1978 to 2005 full of scandals and mysteries that fully involved the Vatican. The Banco Ambrosiano scandal, with the dangerous relationships between Marcinkus' IOR and Calvi's dark finance, the Orlandi case, the murder of Oscar Romero, the Salvadoran...
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The SHADOWS on the Pontificate of POPE John Paul II - Part 1
A pontificate lasting 27 years, a period from 1978 to 2005 full of scandals and mysteries that fully involved the Vatican. The Banco Ambrosiano scandal, with the dangerous relationships between Marcinkus' IOR and Calvi's dark finance, the Orlandi case, the murder of Oscar Romero, the Salvadoran...
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Life Beyond EARTH: A Conversation With AVI LOEB
Abraham "Avi" Loeb is a theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He is the author of the best-selling book, “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth." In this podcast Mr.…
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A LAND FOR JEWS and PALESTINIANS
TWO PEOPLES, WHICH LAND? - There hasn't always been only Palestine. If in the past there have been abortive attempts at Jewish immigration in Uganda and Madagascar, the Palestinians have twice attempted to take control of other states, namely Jordan and Lebanon. All failed experiments, often with...
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ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
Five battleships, one target ship, and two destroyers sunk; three more battleships and three heavily damaged cruisers. Almost a complete strategic victory. This is not the end of a game of Battleship, the classic board game that has entertained generations of kids and adults with pen and paper...
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The 6 Days WAR
THE SIX DAYS: In June 1967, the Israeli General Staff orders a preemptive lightning war as a response to the blockade of the Straits of Tiran. At the peak of a long-standing standoff between the Arab powers and the Jewish state, the IDF's strategy drastically alters the political and military...
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The Night of the Long Knives
The night between 30 June and 1 July 1934 forever marked Hitler's definitive rise to command of Germany. That night a bloody purge occurred which culminated in the killing of ERNST ROHM, head of the SA, the brown shirts loyal to Hitler. From that night, and thanks to subsequent events, darkness...
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The MASSIVE disaster of Operation EAGLE CLAW
The charred skeleton of a C-130 and a Sea Stallion helicopter, blackened by the explosion in the middle of the desert; in the distance, a ruptured tanker truck and on the ground, four other intact helicopters. It's all that remains of a rescue operation as ambitious as it was marred by…
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Born Of a DICTATORSHIP
For the charges of conspiracy and treason, for which she is found guilty, I sentence her to five years of Festungshaft." The judge Georg Neithardt's gavel strike echoes inside the courtroom of the Munich Bavarian court at the conclusion of the trial, where nine individuals are accused of…
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WAR Between ISRAEL and PALESTINE
In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict nouns accompany very complex concepts. Here is a small orientation guide, a compass to avoid getting lost in the sea of sometimes misleading definitions: the various Palestinian acronyms, the differences between Shiites and Sunnis, IDF and non-Tsahal, the...
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The Origins Of The Conflict Between Israel and Palestine
THE ORIGINS: Israel, Palestine, the season of Zionism, migrations, the interests of great nations, the tragedies of two peoples. In this video we analyze the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict starting from the origins of Jewish migration and the British mandate in the area, highlighting...
About this show
Welcome to Living Through History,where we embark on a captivating journey through the events, people, and stories that have shaped the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Join us as we unravel the intricate tapestry of modern history, exploring pivotal moments, cultural shifts, political revolutions, and technological breakthroughs that have defined our contemporary world. With expert interviews, firsthand accounts, and deep dives into archives, Living Through History offers a fresh perspective on the recent past, revealing the fascinating and sometimes surprising connections between yesterday and today. Whether you're a history enthusiast or simply curious about how we got to where we are now, this podcast will inspire your curiosity and deepen your understanding of the modern era.
Living Through History
Script: Federico Bettuzzi Production: Giovanni Zorzi
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