Cold War
Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 2, Gorbachev's Perestroika. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall on Perestroika and Glasnost in the USSR.
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 2, The New Cold War. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall hears stories of the time US nuclear weapons came to English villages.
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 2, The Birth of Solidarity in Poland. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall on the strike in Gdansk that began the Solidarity movement in Poland.
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 2, The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall on the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 2, The Angolan Civil War. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall hears three veterans of the Cold War proxy conflict in Angola.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 2, Ostpolitik. Audio, 15 minutes
How a thaw in relations between West and East Germany shaped five people's lives.
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 2, The Fall of Saigon. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall hears how a student and a schoolgirl witnessed the end of the Vietnam War.
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 2, The Coup in Chile. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall on the coup that brought down Allende's government in Chile.
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 2, America's Vietnam War. Audio, 15 minutes
Three US veterans recall how the Vietnam War affected their lives.
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 2, The Prague Spring. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall on the Soviet-led invasion that brought the Prague Spring to an end.
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 2, The Chinese Cultural Revolution. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall on a UK diplomat and a Chinese teacher caught in the Cultural Revolution.
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 2, The Fall of Khrushchev. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall continues her series tracing the crucial moments in the Cold War.
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Music Extra. Rocking the Stasi. Audio, 53 minutes
Did music help bring down the Berlin Wall? Chris Bowlby reports
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Documentary Podcast. Subversion, Russia and the West. Audio, 50 minutes
How the murky world of subversion still dominates East-West relations
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Analysis. Atom Man. Audio, 30 minutes
The journey of an American 'cold warrior' from nuclear deterrence to nuclear disarmament.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sporting Witness. Love at the Cold War Olympics. Audio, 9 minutes
The Czech discus thrower punished for falling in love with an American at the 1956 games.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 1, The Cuban Missile Crisis. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall hears from witnesses to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 1, The Berlin Wall Crisis. Audio, 15 minutes
Three stories of escaping from East Berlin, before and after the Berlin Wall went up.
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 1, The Congo Coup. Audio, 15 minutes
The story of the independence struggle in the Congo in the words of people who were there.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Document. Fu Bingchang's Diaries. Audio, 28 minutes
The diaries of Fu Bingchang, Chinese Ambassador to the Soviet Union as the Cold War began.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 1, The Hungarian Revolution. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall follows three young men through the 1956 Hungarian uprising.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 1, Khrushchev's Thaw. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall hears from witnesses to Khrushchev's thaw following the death of Stalin.
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 1, The Iran Coup. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall hears from three people who witnessed the fall of Mossadegh in 1953.
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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze. Series 1, The East German Uprising. Audio, 15 minutes
Bridget Kendall tells the forgotten story of the Cold War's first anti-communist revolt.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for 4 months