You Are There! World History Audio Download
In the format of the CBS old time radio shows broadcast in the height of the ‘Radio Years’, You Are There! World History Audio Download provides history lessons in a historical format.
Feel like you are there, experiencing the events of world history afresh! See the Fall of Troy, the Battle of Thermopylae, Charlemagne, the Signing of the Magna Charta, the Storming of the Bastille, the Exile and Reign of Napoleon, and even more events from 1200 B.C. to 1899 A.D.
Each show begins with “live” background coverage of the historical event, and then the “on the scene reporters” take over. For example, everybody knows there were no radio announcers in Ancient Greece, but you will be transported back in time anyway as the show “broadcasts” from inside and outside of Troy during the “Fall of Troy”.
The dialogue is very believable, historically accurate, and very much in character. It is apparent that the producers of this show did their homework! Let’s listen to the announcer now… “CBS takes you back to 1200 B.C. All things are as they were then, except for one thing: when CBS is there, You Are There!”
You Are There! is based on authentic historical fact and quotations. This download contains 31 tracks, with each track being 25-30 minutes long.
Track list:
- Sampler
- 1200 BC – The Fall of Troy
- 480 BC – The Battle of Thermopylae
- 399 BC – The Death of Socrates
- Sep 30, 331 BC – Alexander the Great Part I
- Oct 1, 331 BC – Alexander the Great Part II
- Sep, 326 BC – Alexander the Great Part III
- Aug 26, 79 AD – The Last Day of Pompeii
- Dec 5, 63 BC – The Conspiracy of Cataline
- 44 BC – The Assassination of Julius Caesar
- Dec 25, 800 – Charlemagne
- Oct 14, 1066 – The Battle of Hastings
- Jun 15, 1215 – The Signing of the Magna Charta
- May 30, 1431 – Joan of Arc Burned at the Stake
- Apr 7, 1498 – The Ordeal of Savonarola
- Jun 15, 1520 – The Death of Montezuma
- Oct 3, 1574 – The Siege of Leiden, Holland
- Feb 8, 1587 – Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
- Aug 8, 1588 – Drake Defeats Spanish Armada
- Jan, 1649 – The Trial and Sentencing of Charles I
- Sep 5, 1670 – Trial of William Penn
- May 23, 1701 – The Hanging of Captain Kidd
- Jun 22, 1757 – The Battle of Plassey
- Jul 14, 1789 – The Storming of The Bastille
- Oct 16, 1793 – The Trial of Marie Antoinette
- May 6, 1802 – Toussaint L’ouverture Liberates Haiti
- Mar 7, 1815 – Napoleon Returns from Elba
- Jul 31, 1815 – Napoleon Recaptured and Exiled
- Oct 25, 1854 – The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Jun 19, 1867 – The Execution of Maximilian
- Sep 8, 1899 – The Dreyfus Case
You can listen to a sample track (The Signing of the Magna Charta) here.
