25 episodes
Yesteryear's News Today (CLASSIC) Yesteryears News Today
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- Society & Culture
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4.9 • 39 Ratings
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A weekly podcast where we discuss the weeks news events from years long past Beginning with the week of January 1st 1901 and working our way through the next century one year at a time Each week a new year
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#23 Old Timely Boxing and Making Lovecraft - This Week in 1923
A couple of day's late due to technical difficulties (no fault of our own we swear) we're up and running again. This week we're talking about one of the most dramatic sporting moments of the 20th century, an unrelated double KO in the ring, Destroyer Squadron Eleven (and the biggest peace time Naval disaster) and one of H.P Lovecraft's greatest works of weird fiction "The Rats in the Walls".(Sorry about the lack of abbreviation, our new host does't like punctuation apparently)
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#22 Mary Winchester's Mystery House - This Week in 1922
This week, Mary Winchester dies & with her, the truth behind her mystery house. Another mining disaster rocks England, and a man named Dolittle does quite a bit.
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#21 Another Killer, Another Air Disaster - This Week in 1921
Another year, another serial killer, airship disaster and more strange news from this week in 1921
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#20 A 1920's Serial Killer - This Week in 1920
This week we step into the roaring twenties and take a look at the first commercial radio broadcast, a tragedy in baseball, and ruthless serial killer, Carl Panzram. All making the news, this week in 1920.
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SE: Shoulder Arms Commentary
Originally removed from our feed because we weren't happy with how it turned out, here is our commentary on Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms (as discussed in our episode for "This Week in 1918)
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#19 Airships and Comicstrips - This week in 1919
The latest episode of Yesteryear's News Today (July 12th 2015) in which Shane & Johnny look at some more lighter-than-air advances, a classic comic-strip by Frank King and anything else that was making the news This Week In 1919.For the Free audio-books recommended, check out: audibletrial.com/yesteryearsnewstoday
Customer Reviews
Original
Love this concept. Fun to hear about snippets from the past with humorous commentary.
They're Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!
I enjoy most anything history related, and this definitely satisfied that as well as add a comedic element that make everything enjoyable. I recommend this podcast to anyone!
Style
Great to listen to and very informative.