Strange Days: Cold War Britain

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  1. Red Dawn

  60m

  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.

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  2. The Looking Glass War

  60m

  Dominic Sandbrook examines the ideological frontline as newly prosperous, consumerist Britain was pitched against the Soviet ideal of communism.

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  3. Two Tribes

  60m

  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.

Cast

Dominic Sandbrook

Self - Presenter