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I Was There

42 Episodes

18 minutes | May 21, 2019
Niki Lauda speaks in 2015
Chris Warburton talks to Niki Lauda, 39 years since he crashed his Ferrari at the Nürburgring Grand Prix in Germany. Former F1 drivers Mario Andretti and John Watson, who both also raced that year, share their memories of the crash and that famous season.
26 minutes | Jul 17, 2018
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again. Anna speaks to the actor PHILIP MICHAEL, dancer LYDIA LOUISA and Assistant Director CHRIS NEWMAN who all helped to make the original Mamma Mia! a success.
20 minutes | Jan 5, 2018
Sports Report at 70
Chris Warburton is celebrates the 70th Anniversary of the BBC's Sports Report.
24 minutes | Dec 19, 2017
Fairytale of New York
Steve Lillywhite, who produced the song, speaks to Adrian.
26 minutes | Dec 5, 2017
Cool Runnings
Members of the legendary Jamaican bobsleigh team – whose heroic endeavours at the Calgary Winter Olympics of 1988 became a hit Hollywood film – join Adrian Chiles to remember how they ended up competing at the games.
20 minutes | Nov 21, 2017
Frestonia
Two squatters from the legendary London 1970s squatting community Frestonia tell Adrian Chiles how it all started, what it was like - and how it ended.
24 minutes | Nov 14, 2017
King’s Cross disaster
Three people who were caught up in the devastating fire on the London Underground – a passenger, a firefighter and a news reporter – tell Adrian Chiles about their memories of the disaster, which killed 31 people.
27 minutes | Nov 7, 2017
Arsenal-Liverpool 1989
Arsenal’s Lee Dixon, Liverpool’s John Aldridge and TV analyser David Pleat join Adrian Chiles as they remember the famous title-deciding clash which saw Arsenal snatch the title from Liverpool with a stunning 2-0 win, including Michael Thomas’s last-minute goal.
26 minutes | Oct 31, 2017
Ghostwatch
The writer, director and one of the producers join Adrian Chiles to discuss the controversial BBC programme, that aired on Halloween 1992.
24 minutes | Oct 17, 2017
Help for Heroes
In 2007, Bryn and Emma Parry visited a military hospital. They saw a need to help British servicemen and woman with their injuries. They tell Adrian Chiles about setting up the charity, and what the early days were like.
24 minutes | Oct 10, 2017
Bali bombing
Polly and Hanabeth both survived the 2002 terror attack on the dream holiday island. They tell Adrian Chiles what happened, and we discover how their stories overlap.
46 minutes | Sep 26, 2017
Going Live
Stars including Phillip Schofield, Sarah Green, Trev and the man behind Gordon the Gopher tell Adrian Chiles what it was like working on the legendary Saturday morning TV show, 30 years after it first launched.
22 minutes | Sep 19, 2017
The Siege of Sarajevo
We go back a quarter of a century to the longest siege in modern history
25 minutes | Sep 5, 2017
The launch of Google
The BBC's Technology correspondent, Rory Cellan Jones, and Jeff Jarvis, author of 'What Would Google Do?', join Adrian Chiles to talk about the foundation of tech giant Google.
38 minutes | Aug 29, 2017
The death of Diana
Broadcasters and journalists – including Nik Gowing, who was on air on BBC 2 and was the first to break the news – recall how they announced the news of Diana’s death to the nation on 31 August 1997.
32 minutes | Jul 25, 2017
Decriminalisation of homosexuality
Three gay men tell Adrian Chiles how the 1967 decriminalisation affected them in different ways – including a 94-year-old man, who hid his double life until his 80s.
24 minutes | Jul 18, 2017
Raoul Moat
In 2010, in a small village near Gateshead, Raoul Moat shot & injured his ex-girlfriend & killed her new partner. For a week after the shootings he was on the run from the police.
21 minutes | May 31, 2017
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Adrian Chiles speaks to those who were part of the making of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
22 minutes | May 16, 2017
2012 Olympic Torch Relay
Adrian Chiles talks to those involved with the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay as it traveled round the whole of the United Kingdom.
21 minutes | Apr 21, 2017
Brink’s-Mat robbery
We retell the extraordinary events of 1983, and one of Britain’s biggest-ever robberies.
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