

BBC Two history series on Britain and the Cold War, looking at the period from the end of the 1950s to the mid-1970s.

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.
Aired: 11/12/2013
Dominic Sandbrook examines the ideological frontline as newly prosperous, consumerist Britain was pitched against the Soviet ideal of communism.