“You Are There” is the best radio dramatization I have ever heard. Each show begins with “live” background coverage of the historical event, and then the “on the scene reporters” take over. Everybody knows there were no radio announcers onboard the Nina, Pinta, or Santa Maria, (or from Ancient Greece, Medieval France, or the Battle of Gettysburg either!) but you will be transported back in time anyway as the show “broadcasts” from the ships, the shore, and from Spain. 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 take you back to 1492. 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, and now, on to our story.”
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Sampler |
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1200 BC – The Fall of Troy |
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480 BC – The Battle of Thermopolae |
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399 BC – The Death of Socrates |
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Sep 30, 331 BC – Alexander the Great Part I |
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Oct 1, 331 BC – Alexander the Great Part II |
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Sep, 326 BC – Alexander the Great Part III |
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Aug 26, 79 BC – The Last Day of Pompeii |
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Dec 5, 63 BC – The Conspiracy of Cataline |
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44 BC – The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
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Dec 25, 800 – Charlemagne |
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Oct 14, 1066 – The Battle of Hastings |
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Jun 15, 1215 – The Signing of the Magna Carta |
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May 30, 1431 – Joan of Arc Burned at the Stake |
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Apr 7, 1498 – The Ordeal of Savonarola |
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Jun 15, 1520 – The Death of Montezuma |
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Oct 3, 1574 – The Siege of Leiden, Holland |
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Feb 8, 1587 – Execution of Mary Queen of Scots |
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Aug 8, 1588 – Drake Defeats Spanish Armada |
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Jan, 1649 – The Trial and Sentencing of Charles I |
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Sep 5, 1670 – Trial of William Penn |
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May 23, 1701 – The Hanging of Captain Kidd |
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Jun 22, 1757 – The Battle of Plassey |
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Jul 14, 1789 – The Storming of The Bastille |
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Oct 16, 1793 – The Trial of Marie Antoinette |
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May 6, 1802 – Toussaint L’ouverture Liberates Haiti |
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Mar 7, 1815 – Napoleon Returns from Elba |
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Jul 31, 1815 – Napoleon Recaptured and Exiled |
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Oct 25, 1854 – The Charge of the Light Brigade |
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Jun 19, 1867 – The Execution of Maximilian |
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Sep 8, 1899 – The Dreyfus Case |
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