Cold War
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
MI6: A Century in the Shadows. Heroes and Villains. Audio, 30 minutes
What went on behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Punt PI. Series 1, Episode 2. Audio, 30 minutes
Steve probes the case of the missing steam trains stashed away in case of nuclear war.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Document. BBC Broadcasts from the Bunker. Audio, 30 minutes
The BBC devised a programme schedule to be transmitted in the event of a nuclear attack.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
This is London. Bridget Kendall. Audio, 13 minutes
The history of the World Service and how the BBC's language services handled the Cold War
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The View From Moscow And Havana. Audio, 29 minutes
Documentary about the Cuban missile crisis and how nuclear war was averted
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Threads. Video, 112 minutes
The story of a nuclear attack on Britain and what remains for the unlucky survivors.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for 10 months
The Thing from Another World. Video, 83 minutes
Scientists at a lonely Arctic outpost dig up an alien from the permafrost.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for over a year
The Third Man. Video, 105 minutes
Classic film noir about a writer visiting postwar Vienna to see a friend.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for 6 days
