Communism
School for Communists. Audio, 28 minutes
Alexei Sayle shares his memories of being a young communist with Michael Rosen and others.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. In Albania, Setting Off. Audio, 14 minutes
It's the mid-1990s and Albania is in turmoil, so Joanna Robertson sets off to live there.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Witness History. China's Democracy Wall. Audio, 9 minutes
How a brick wall in Beijing became a beacon for those calling for change
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs. Audio, 9 minutes
Hear from a Cuban who fought against the US-backed exiles that invaded Cuba in April 1961
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted25 January 2021
World Book Club. Yiyun Li: The Vagrants. Audio, 50 minutes
We talk to acclaimed Chinese author Yiyun Li about her harrowing debut novel The Vagrants
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Essay. New Generation Thinkers 2020, Pogroms and Prejudice. Audio, 14 minutes
Brendan McGeever looks at anti-Semitism, from Russian attacks to the present day.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted20 June 2020
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- Posted28 May 2020
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- Posted21 April 2020
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
- Attribution
- Posted29 December 2019
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- Posted19 December 2019
Witness History. The Romanian revolution. Audio, 9 minutes
In December 1989 a wave of protests finally deposed communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted2 December 2019
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- Posted16 November 2019
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
The Fall of the Berlin Wall - 30 Years On. Newshour. Audio, 00:07:02
German novelist Ingo Schulze on his memories of 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Posted8 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
The Radio 3 Documentary. Power Plays. Audio, 44 minutes
How theatre challenged the East German government - but was swept aside as communism fell
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Compass. The Cold War Legacy, The Cold War Legacy: Brazil. Audio, 27 minutes
Jair Bolsonaro has vowed to wipe the reds off the map. Is Brazil reliving the Cold War?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. The fall of the Berlin Wall. Audio, 9 minutes
The border between communist East Germany and the West opened on November 9th 1989
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. East German refugees in the Prague embassy. Audio, 9 minutes
Thousands of East Germans sought refuge in the West German embassy in Prague in 1989.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. The reburial of a Hungarian hero. Audio, 9 minutes
The body of Imre Nagy who had led the Hungarian Uprising was reburied in 1989
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
