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Bridget Kendall explores the major turning points in the later decades of the Cold War.

When Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms of the 1980s signalled that Soviet repression was being relaxed, the Baltic countries seized the chance to push for independence.

In the Baltic republics, glasnost was seen most of all as a chance to start talking about national identity and the explosive issue of a nation's right to self-determination.

This campaign for independence was not just political, but born from a desire to protect and promote nationhood through language and culture. And particularly music.

Bridget Kendall hears from three participants in the Singing Revolution in Estonia.

With Marju Lauristin, Andrus Oovel and Artur Talvik.

Producer: Martin Williams.