Two Tribes
Dominic Sandbrook examines the Cold War years. In the 1970s and '80s, as the end of the world seemed a real possibility, everything from sport to music became weapons.
Historian Dominic Sandbrook concludes his lively and surprising history of Britain during the years of the Cold War.
He plunders the archive and music of the late 1970s and the 1980s to bring to life an era in which the end of the world seemed a very real possibility, years in which our leaders crusaded as never before against a struggling Soviet empire and everything from sport to shopping to British pop music became potent weapons in the life and death struggle with communism.
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Nuclear war from a schoolboy's perspective
Duration: 03:22
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Berlin rocks
Duration: 03:42
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Introduction to Two Tribes
Duration: 01:45
Music Played
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Timothy Farthing & Rupert Farthing
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The Cure
A Forest
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Roxy Music
Angel Eyes
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Kim Carnes
Bette Davis Eyes
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Timothy Farthing & Rupert Farthing
Checkpoint Charlie
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Jan Hammer
Crockett's Theme
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Tears for Fears
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
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Survivor
Eye Of The Tiger
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George Michael
Freedom! '90
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Genesis
Performance At Concert For Berlin
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Blue Mink
Good Morning Freedom
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David Bowie
'Heroes'
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State Symphony Capella of Russia
Jazz Suite No 2
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Electric Light Orchestra
Mr. Blue Sky
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Timothy Farthing & Rupert Farthing
Nightmares
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Christopher Cross
Ride Like The Wind
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Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Rockin Shopping Center
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U2
Seconds
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Tears for Fears
Sowing The Seeds Of Love
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Pink Floyd
Terminal Frost
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Bernard Herrmann
Thank God For The Rain
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Echo & the Bunnymen
The Back Of Love
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Duran Duran
The Chauffeur
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Jeff Wayne
The Eve Of The War
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Roxette
The Look
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Two Tribes
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Simple Minds
Waterfront
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Pink Floyd
Welcome To The Machine
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U2
With Or Without You
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Paul McCartney
Wonderful Christmastime
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Executive Producer | Steve Condie |
Director | James Giles |
Series Producer | James Giles |
Presenter | Dominic Sandbrook |
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