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I WAS THERE! is a living history series featuring lively conversations with eyewitnesses to significant modern events. Our guests are common individuals who through the hand of fortune or fate found themselves in the uncommon front row seat of witnessing or participating in extraordinary moments in time. Here they share their fascinating, unfiltered accounts on a variety of topics with the rest of us, and whether their historical encounters were brief or lengthy, this humble podcast strives to make them all memorable.

If you're like Matt Gourley (Superego, Drunk History, Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend), then you know all the classic movie and television scenes so well it's like you were in the room when they happened. Well, you weren't. And neither was he. But the people Matt interviews were! Listen in as they tell the inside stories of how cinema and television history was made from a fly-on-the-wall perspective you've never heard. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"I Was There" looks at the creation of Broadway's greatest works -- from the perspective of the original cast who brought it to life. From auditions to previews, rehearsals, and performances, the podcast looks at changes made along the way, the creative and personal challenges faced by the cast and creative team, and what it was like to birth one of Broadway's greatest musicals. Hosted by David Meyers.

Three 'witness' insights into history. In 'That Door' by Elizabeth Kuti (read by Eleanor Bron), it is Wittenberg, 1517 and Brother Martin meets the indomitable Frau Sprenger. In 'Nothing but Blue Skies' by Dominic Power (read by Elizabeth Mastrantonio), Katherine Rudd, now 97, recalls events on...