Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Episode 2

The Looking Glass War

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

Episode 3

Two Tribes

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.