Station:
BBC Two (GB)

Status:
Ended

Start:
2013-11-12

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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.

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S1E1 - Red Dawn

Historian Dominic Sandbrook examines the Cold War. He looks at the first chilling years of the conflict, when the opposing ideologies were identified.

Air Date: 12 Nov 2013 15:00 (CDT)

S1E2 - The Looking Glass War

Dominic Sandbrook examines the Cold War years, looking at the frontline of the conflict as consumerism was pitched against the Soviet ideal of communism.

Air Date: 19 Nov 2013 15:00 (CDT)

S1E3 - 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.

Air Date: 26 Nov 2013 15:00 (CDT)

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