Strange Days: Cold War Britain

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.

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

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.