Blast From My Past is a podcast series which tells the true stories of people whose lives were changed by discoveries about their family’s past.
The podcast has been launched by the UK’s Audio Production Company of the Year, Listen and global family history platform MyHeritage.
There’s a growing interest in family history due to the increasing availability of digital resources that make family history research easier than ever. It has led to an increase in discoveries for millions of people around the world. This is the first podcast to capture these stories.
There is no host for Blast From My Past, instead, each story is told by those involved.
The first episode, “The Secret of Erikoussa”, was released on 1 March, featuring the story of bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning producer Yvette Corporan who set out to confirm the extraordinary story her grandmother told her: that the Greek Island community where she grew up conspired to hide a Jewish family right under the noses of their Nazi occupiers.
Future episodes include a journey to the world’s most far-flung locations to preserve the endangered legacies of remote tribes.
A project to reunite adoptees around the world with their birth families through free DNA testing results in a number of touching reunions
The story of a soldier who earned an Iron Cross for his service on the German side in WWI, only to be driven out of Germany by the Nazis and later earned a Silver Star fighting for the Allies in WWII
A pair of sisters, abandoned as babies at the same train station in South Korea and adopted to families on opposite ends of the globe, reunite years later
A pair of Colombian half-brothers, adopted in different countries in Europe, discover each other — but the discoveries don’t stop there.
There are eight episodes in the first season, with one being released every two weeks.
The launch of Blast From My Past will be announced at RootsTech 2022, the world’s largest family history conference, which will take place on 3 – 5 March.
