Cold War
Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 1, The H-Bomb. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall tells the story of the development of the hydrogen bomb.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 1, McCarthyism. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall hears from three people whose parents were targets of the 50s Red Scare.
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 1, The Korean War. Audio, 15 minutes
The Korean War tore thousands of families apart. Bridget Kendall hears their stories.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 1, The Fall of Shanghai. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall tells the story of the fall of Shanghai in 1949.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 1, The Berlin Blockade. Audio, 15 minutes
In 1948 Stalin blockaded Berlin. Bridget Kendall hears from three people who were there.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 1, The 1948 Election in Italy. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall tells the story of the divisive 1948 general election in Italy.
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 1, The Czech Coup. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall tells the story of the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Document. The Albania Operation. Audio, 28 minutes
For Radio 4's Cold War season, Gordon Corera examines CIA attempts to subvert Albania.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 1, The Greek Civil War. Audio, 15 minutes
The story of the Greek Civil War in the words of some of those who were there.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Philby Tape. Audio, 28 minutes
Notorious Soviet spy Kim Philby as he's never been heard before.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives. Krishna Menon: Sombre Porcupine. Audio, 14 minutes
A profile of the abrasive Indian diplomat and statesman Krishna Menon
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Brainwash Culture. Audio, 45 minutes
Professor Daniel Pick explores the enduring cultural obsession with brainwashing.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. Best of Four Thought: Hinge Moments in History. Audio, 43 minutes
Another chance to hear three of the best recent episodes of Four Thought.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
British Liberalism: The Grand Tour. The Cold War. Audio, 15 minutes
Anne McElvoy explores the distinctively embattled liberalism that emerged in the Cold War.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Document. The Crypto Agreement. Audio, 28 minutes
Gordon Corera reveals evidence of a secret deal between a code-machine company and the NSA
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Assignment. Estonia’s Russian Problem. Audio, 28 minutes
This NATO nation has readied for war – but fears being undermined from within.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. Series 4, The Shadow of the Cold War. Audio, 15 minutes
Jeffrey Sachs argues that many global problems were caused by mistakes at the end of wars.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin. Episode 5. Audio, 15 minutes
Dorothy becomes the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
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Germany: Memories of a Nation. Divided Heaven. Audio, 15 minutes
Neil MacGregor examines the story of the two Germanys, East and West, created in 1949.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Britain at Sea. 13. North Atlantic. Audio, 15 minutes
Lord West tells the story of Britain and the Royal Navy in the late Cold War.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
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Britain at Sea. Britain at Sea: Omnibus, World War to Cold War. Audio, 58 minutes
Admiral Lord West continues his history of the Royal Navy in the 20th century.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Britain at Sea. 10. Early Cold War. Audio, 15 minutes
Lord West describes how the Royal Navy fought a series of conflicts in the early Cold War.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year