Historiquement Vôtre réunit trois personnages qui ont chanté un hymne : la chanteuse et résistante Germaine Sablon qui, aux côtés de Joseph Kessel et son neveu Maurice Druon qui en ont écrit le texte, a donné de la voix pour faire résonner, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, "Le Chant des Partisans". Puis Rouget de Lisle, un officier au destin peu flamboyan ... Show More
Aug 22
Jules Ferry, l'homme qui a révolutionné l'école
Stéphane Bern raconte Jules Ferry, nommé ministre de l’Instruction publique en février 1879, qui a révolutionné l'école, en la rendant laïque, gratuite et obligatoire, et consolidé la République par ses lois historiques. Dans quel contexte les lois relatives à l’école portées par ... Show More
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Aug 20
Jules César, le grand héros de Rome
Invité : - Yann Le Bohec, historien, professeur émérite à La Sorbonne, spécialiste de l'Antiquité romaine Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
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Feb 2024
The Star Spangled Banger!
Who is the biggest Diva of them all? The U.S. National Anthem, which borrows its melody from a historic British drinking song, has undergone enormous musical change in the hands of pop music vocalists. Famously, José Feliciano, Marvin Gaye and Whitney Houston each changed the mea ... Show More
53m 5s
May 28
This Moment in Music History for 05-28-2025
On May 28th in music history, one significant event took place in 1977 when the iconic British punk rock band Sex Pistols released their highly controversial single "God Save the Queen." The song, which was a scathing critique of the British monarchy and the state of the nation, ... Show More
1m 53s
Oct 2024
The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea
In November 1967, the Maltese diplomat, Arvid Pardo, addressed the United Nations with a remarkable speech that shaped the laws governing the sea.Pardo's message is immortalised in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which was adopted in 1982, and is now the fund ... Show More
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Sep 2022
Emily Bingham, "My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song" (Knopf, 2022)
Any song as old and as familiar as “My Old Kentucky Home” is bound to have accrued many different meanings and an interesting history. Emily Bingham’s book, My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song (Knopf, 2022) delivers on the promise o ... Show More
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