Strange Days: Cold War Britain

Two Tribes (1x3)

Air date: Nov 26, 2013

Historian Dominic Sandbrook 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.