Strange Days: Cold War Britain
BBC Two history series on Britain and the Cold War, looking at the period from the end of the 1950s to the mid-1970s.
Cast
Dominic Sandbrook
Self - Presenter
Seasons
Historian Dominic Sandbrook explores the impact of the Cold War on British politics, culture and everyday society. Rather than focusing on missiles and summits, the series examines how the East-West conflict shaped the national imagination through spy scandals, James Bond films, protest records, consumerism vs communism, and widespread fears of nuclear annihilation—from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.
E1Red Dawn
Nov 12, 2013
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.
E2The Looking Glass War
Nov 19, 2013
Dominic Sandbrook examines the ideological frontline as newly prosperous, consumerist Britain was pitched against the Soviet ideal of communism.
E3Two Tribes
Nov 26, 2013
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.
Storyline
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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