Cold War
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
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
- 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
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
Bridge of Spies. Video, 130 minutes
Cold War drama based on a true story.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for 15 days
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
