Cold War
- Attribution
- Posted23 March
Witness History. The historic handshake in space. Audio, 9 minutes
In July 1975, Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts met in space and shook hands
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
American History Hit. President Eisenhower: War of Soviets & Segregation. Audio, 48 minutes
President Eisenhower and the Cold War and Civil Rights.
- AttributionBBC Sounds
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Short History Of... The Berlin Wall. Audio, 47 minutes
Starting out as a barbed wire fence, the Berlin Wall became a symbol of the Cold War.
- AttributionBBC Sounds
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- Posted25 February
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- Posted22 February
Witness History. Murder at the Berlin Wall. Audio, 9 minutes
In March 1974, Polish man Czesław Kukuczka was shot by a Stasi officer at the Berlin Wall
- AttributionBBC World Service
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- Attribution
- Posted23 January
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- Posted4 December 2024
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- Posted18 November 2024
Breaking the Rules. The Markov File. Audio, 57 minutes
The story of the dissident assassinated with a poison tip umbrella in London, 1978.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Inquiry. What will happen after the International Space Station? Audio, 23 minutes
What will come after the International Space Station?
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- Attribution
- Posted19 October 2024
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- Posted14 October 2024
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- Posted30 September 2024
Short History Of... The Cuban Missile Crisis, Part 2 of 2. Audio, 45 minutes
With Soviet missiles on Cuban soil, The United States is now in Moscow's crosshairs.
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- Attribution
- Posted21 September 2024
Short History Of... The Cuban Missile Crisis, Part 1 of 2. Audio, 53 minutes
Three men – Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro – hold the fate of the planet in their hands.
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Revisionist History. Saigon, 1965. Audio, 42 minutes
In the 1960s the Pentagon set up a research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon.
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Witness History. The woman who spoke to the space station. Audio, 9 minutes
Maggie Iaquinto was the first amateur radio enthusiast to contact Russian cosmonauts
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- Posted29 August 2024
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- Posted24 August 2024
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- Posted20 August 2024
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- Posted17 August 2024
