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The 1948 Election in Italy

Bridget Kendall tells the story of the divisive 1948 general election in Italy.

• 15 mins

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The Berlin Blockade

In 1948 Stalin blockaded Berlin. Bridget Kendall hears from three people who were there.

• 15 mins

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The Fall of Shanghai

Bridget Kendall tells the story of the fall of Shanghai in 1949.

• 15 mins

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The Korean War

The Korean War tore thousands of families apart. Bridget Kendall hears their stories.

• 15 mins

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McCarthyism

Bridget Kendall hears from three people whose parents were targets of the 50s Red Scare.

• 15 mins

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The H-Bomb

Bridget Kendall tells the story of the development of the hydrogen bomb.

• 15 mins

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The East German Uprising

Bridget Kendall tells the forgotten story of the Cold War's first anti-communist revolt.

• 15 mins

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The Iran Coup

Bridget Kendall hears from three people who witnessed the fall of Mossadegh in 1953.

• 15 mins

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Khrushchev's Thaw

Bridget Kendall hears from witnesses to Khrushchev's thaw following the death of Stalin.

• 15 mins

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The Hungarian Revolution

Bridget Kendall follows three young men through the 1956 Hungarian uprising.

• 15 mins

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The Congo Coup

The story of the independence struggle in the Congo in the words of people who were there.

• 15 mins

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The Berlin Wall Crisis

Three stories of escaping from East Berlin, before and after the Berlin Wall went up.

• 15 mins

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The Cuban Missile Crisis

Bridget Kendall hears from witnesses to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• 15 mins

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The Fall of Khrushchev

Bridget Kendall continues her series tracing the crucial moments in the Cold War.

• 15 mins

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The Chinese Cultural Revolution

Bridget Kendall on a UK diplomat and a Chinese teacher caught in the Cultural Revolution.

• 15 mins

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The Prague Spring

Bridget Kendall on the Soviet-led invasion that brought the Prague Spring to an end.

• 15 mins

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America's Vietnam War

Three US veterans recall how the Vietnam War affected their lives.

• 15 mins

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The Coup in Chile

Bridget Kendall on the coup that brought down Allende's government in Chile.

• 15 mins

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The Fall of Saigon

Bridget Kendall hears how a student and a schoolgirl witnessed the end of the Vietnam War.

• 15 mins

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Ostpolitik

How a thaw in relations between West and East Germany shaped five people's lives.

• 15 mins

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The Angolan Civil War

Bridget Kendall hears three veterans of the Cold War proxy conflict in Angola.

• 15 mins

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The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

Bridget Kendall on the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.

• 15 mins

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The Birth of Solidarity in Poland

Bridget Kendall on the strike in Gdansk that began the Solidarity movement in Poland.

• 15 mins

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The New Cold War

Bridget Kendall hears stories of the time US nuclear weapons came to English villages.

• 15 mins

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Gorbachev's Perestroika

Bridget Kendall on Perestroika and Glasnost in the USSR.

• 15 mins

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The Fall of the Berlin Wall and German Reunification

Bridget Kendall hears how East and West Germans experienced their country's reunification.

• 15 mins

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The Baltic Singing Revolution

Bridget Kendall on the Baltic Singing Revolution.

• 15 mins

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The Collapse of the Soviet Union

Bridget Kendall on the final days of the Soviet Union.

• 15 mins