Strange Days: Cold War Britain

2013 - 2013

Red Dawn

12th November 2013

Episode 1

Dominic Sandbrook takes us back to the strange years of the Cold War, a time when Britain was more secure and prosperous than ever, yet lived with the very real possibility of nuclear annihilation.

The Looking Glass War

19th November 2013

Episode 2

Dominic Sandbrook examines the ideological frontline as newly prosperous, consumerist Britain was pitched against the Soviet ideal of communism.

Two Tribes

26th November 2013

Episode 3

Dominic Sandbrook explores the late 1970s and 1980s, an era when the end of the world seemed a very real possibility and leaders crusaded against the threat of nuclear war.

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Dominic Sandbrook

BBC Two history series on Britain and the Cold War, looking at the period from the end of the 1950s to the mid-1970s.

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