Cold War
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
The Radio 3 Documentary. Brainwash Culture. Audio, 44 minutes
If brainwashing is a just a Cold War myth, why does it still trouble us? With Daniel Pick
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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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
Cold War Confidential. Audio, 28 minutes
Fresh revelations about the Cambridge spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Jazz Ambassadors of the Cold War. Audio, 30 minutes
Julian Joseph recounts how jazz diplomacy was used during the Cold War.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
A Cold War Dance. Audio, 30 minutes
The Martha Graham Dance Company's US State Department tour of Southeast Asia, 1974.
- 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
The Hobsbawm File. Audio, 28 minutes
The hidden history of Britain's covert programme against communism during the Cold War.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Moment That Made Putin. Audio, 30 minutes
How Vladimir Putin's experience as KGB agent in Germany shaped his career and behaviour.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- 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
- Available for over a year
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
- Available for over a year
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
The Reunion. The Berlin Airlift. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue MacGregor reunites British military personnel involved in the historic Berlin Airlift.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Open Book. Sally Beauman, Darragh McKeon, Hamid Ismailov and Margie Orford. Audio, 28 minutes
Sally Beauman talks to guest presenter Ellah Allfrey about her latest novel The Visitors.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Document. MI6 and the Media. Audio, 28 minutes
Jeremy Duns examines links between MI6 and the British media during the Cold War.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Pop-Up Economics. War-gaming Armageddon. Audio, 15 minutes
Tim Harford tells the story of Thomas Schelling, who used economics to avert war.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Stasi Jigsaw Puzzle. Audio, 30 minutes
Chris Bowlby tells the story of the attempt to rescue East Germany's Stasi secret files.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
