Cold War
The Rest Is History. History's Biggest Questions with Dan Carlin (Part 2) Audio, 60 minutes
Tom and Dominic are joined by Dan Carlin to tackle the biggest questions in history.
- AttributionBBC Sounds
- Available for 10 months
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- Posted7 November 2022
Lives Less Ordinary. The child spy and her secret agent parents. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue-Ellen Doherty was trained by her parents to spy for Australia during the Cold War
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted27 September 2022
Arts & Ideas. Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales. Audio, 45 minutes
Novelist Ian McEwan and researchers into early warning system archives join Anne McElvoy
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
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- Posted31 August 2022
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- Posted15 August 2022
Sideways. 27. A Blip on the Radar. Audio, 30 minutes
Matthew Syed explores how we might deal with the extreme risks that nuclear weapons pose.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Techno: A Social History. Berlin. Audio, 28 minutes
What makes techno the perfect accompaniment to radical ideas?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Witness History. Soviet nuclear missile alert. Audio, 9 minutes
The Soviet colonel who realised that a warning of a US nuclear attack was a false alarm.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. Britain's Soviet spy scandal. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1971 during the Cold War, the UK expelled 90 Soviet diplomats suspected of spying.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Unavailable
The Documentary Podcast. Who killed my grandfather? Audio, 62 minutes
The unsolved murder of Yemen’s former foreign minister, Mohamed Noman, in 1974
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. The Great American Grain Robbery. Audio, 9 minutes
How a catastrophic trade deal between the US and Moscow sparked a global food price shock
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Forum. The Truman Doctrine: Beginnings of the Cold War. Audio, 41 minutes
The speech that committed the USA to a 40-year struggle with the Soviet Union
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted19 March 2022
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- Posted18 March 2022
A Point of View. Return of the Bomb. Audio, 9 minutes
Will Self argues that the threat of a nuclear apocalypse has never really gone away.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
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- Posted14 February 2022
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- Posted13 February 2022
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- Posted3 February 2022
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- Posted3 February 2022
Past Forward: A Century of Sound. Porton Down. Audio, 14 minutes
Public Historian Greg Jenner digs into the BBC Archive.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Past Forward: A Century of Sound. 1984 - Comrade Dad. Audio, 14 minutes
Greg Jenner explores fictional dystopias past and present.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
