Cold War
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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
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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
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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.
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Techno: A Social History. Berlin. Audio, 28 minutes
What makes techno the perfect accompaniment to radical ideas?
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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.
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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.
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The Documentary Podcast. Who killed my grandfather? Audio, 62 minutes
The unsolved murder of Yemen’s former foreign minister, Mohamed Noman, in 1974
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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
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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
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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.
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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 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Archive.
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Past Forward: A Century of Sound. 1984 - Comrade Dad. Audio, 14 minutes
Greg Jenner explores fictional dystopias past and present.
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Arts & Ideas. Toys. Audio, 45 minutes
How toys are shaped by politics and why they have a spooky side.
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