Strange Days: Cold War Britain
2013 · BBC Two · 60 min · 1 season
S01E03 · Two Tribes
Wed, 27 Nov, 8:00 am
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.
About
Historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us back to the strange years of the Cold War. For Sandbrook these are the years in which we were both more secure and prosperous that we had ever been - and at the same time, lived everyday with the very real possibility of nuclear annihilation. This is not just a story of the superpower arms race or daring spies, real and fictional, it is a story in which all we played a crucial part.
Episodes
- E01
Red Dawn
Wed, 13 Nov· 60 minHistorian Dominic Sandbrook examines the Cold War. He looks at the first chilling years of the conflict, when the opposing ideologies were identified.
- E02
The Looking Glass War
Wed, 20 Nov· 60 minDominic Sandbrook examines the Cold War years, looking at the frontline of the conflict as consumerism was pitched against the Soviet ideal of communism.
- E03
Two Tribes
Wed, 27 Nov· 60 minDominic 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.
Cast
Dominic Sandbrook
Presenter