The Cold War: Series 1 and 2: Stories from the Big Freeze

Bridget Kendall presents an oral history tracing decisive moments of the Cold War.

The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globeamp;mdash;from Greece to China, Hungary to Cubaamp;mdash;and lasted for almost half a century. It has shaped political relations to this day, drawing new physical and ideological boundaries between East and West.

Bridget Kendall explores the Cold War through the eyes of those who experienced it first-hand. This landmark series draws on exclusive interviews with individuals who lived through the conflict's key events, offering a variety of perspectives that reveal how the Cold War was experienced by ordinary people. From pilots making food drops during the Berlin Blockade and Japanese fishermen affected by H-bomb testing, to families fleeing the Korean War and children whose parents were victims of McCarthy's Red Scare, Cold War covers the full geographical and historical reach of the conflict. This is essential listening for anyone seeking to understand how the tensions of the last century have shaped the modern world, and what it was like to live through them.

The Greek Civil War
The Czech Coup
The 1948 Election in Italy
The Berlin Blockade
The Fall of Shanghai
The Korean War
McCarthyism
The H-Bomb
The East German Uprising
The Iran Coup
Khrushchev's Thaw
The Hungarian Revolution
The Congo Coup
The Berlin Wall Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Fall of Khrushchev
The Chinese Cultural Revolution
The Prague Spring
America's Vietnam War
The Coup in Chile
The Fall of Saigon
Ostpolitik
The Angolan Civil War
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Birth of Solidarity in Poland
The New Cold War
Gorbachev's Perestroika
The Fall of the Berlin Wall and German Reunification
The Baltic Singing Revolution
The Collapse of the Soviet Union