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Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Original Series

Episode 3: Two Tribes

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Historian Dominic Sandbrook concludes his lively and surprising history of Britain during the years of the Cold War.

He plunders the archive and music of the late 1970s and the 1980s to bring to life an era in which the end of the world seemed a very real possibility, years in which our leaders crusaded as never before against a struggling Soviet empire and everything from sport to shopping to British pop music became potent weapons in the life and death struggle with communism. Show less

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