Cold War
Witness History. The dirtiest chess match in history. Audio, 9 minutes
How the 1978 World Chess Championship was overshadowed by allegations of dirty tricks
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted17 March 2021
Witness History. Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech. Audio, 9 minutes
How the historic speech in March 1946 came to symbolise the beginnings of the Cold War
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted11 February 2021
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- Posted14 December 2020
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- Posted7 August 2020
Drama on 4. Bird in the Sky. Audio, 44 minutes
The mystery of a homesick US Air Force mechanic who stole a plane and disappeared.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for 7 months
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- Posted27 July 2020
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- Posted26 July 2020
US-China Cold War? Business Daily. Audio, 00:03:22
Why Xi Jinping feels as insecure as Donald Trump
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Posted8 July 2020
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- Posted28 May 2020
Witness History. Sweden's fishy submarine scare. Audio, 9 minutes
Could farting fish have triggered Sweden's Cold War submarine hunts?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Homeschool History. The Space Race. Audio, 15 minutes
Join Greg Jenner for a fun homeschool history lesson on the space race.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Witness History. Red Hollywood. Audio, 9 minutes
Former actress Marsha Hunt remembers the anti-Communist witch-hunt of the late 1940s.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. Battling Soviet psychiatric punishment. Audio, 9 minutes
One man's stand against the psychiatric abuse of political dissidents in the Soviet Union
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted16 February 2020
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- Posted11 February 2020
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- Posted4 February 2020
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- Posted3 February 2020
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- Posted25 January 2020
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- Posted13 January 2020
Sporting Witness. The Cold War's strangest sport. Audio, 9 minutes
How international Morse code competitions became popular behind the Iron Curtain.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted3 December 2019
