Cold War
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
- Unavailable
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
- Unavailable
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
