Cold War
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
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- Posted3 December 2019
The Compass. The Cold War Legacy, The Cold War Legacy: Angola. Audio, 27 minutes
What will it take for Angola to be truly free of the legacy of Africa’s Cold War?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Between the Ears. Bone Music. Audio, 30 minutes
How hospital x-rays were used to capture forbidden music in the Cold War
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Radio 3 Documentary. Poles Apart. Audio, 44 minutes
The unknown tale of cold war communist Poland’s love affair with electronic music
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Unavailable
The Compass. The Cold War Legacy, The Cold War Legacy: India. Audio, 27 minutes
How is India navigating international relations today?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Documentary Podcast. Comrade Africa. Audio, 52 minutes
How Communist East Germany tried to influence Africa via radio during the Cold War
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Poles Apart. Audio, 44 minutes
The unknown tale of Cold War communist Poland's unlikely love affair with electronic music
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Kapka Kassabova back in her native Bulgaria. Weekend. Audio, 00:04:55
Thirty years later, author Kapka Kassabova, returns to the borders of her native Bulgaria
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Posted9 November 2019
The Compass. The Cold War Legacy, The Cold War Legacy: Indonesia. Audio, 27 minutes
In 1965, some half a million people died in military-led killings of suspected communists
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Moral Maze. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. Audio, 43 minutes
Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
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- Posted5 November 2019
