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Cuba and the Cold War Collection: From Revolution to Missile Crisis (2009)

Subject

History

At the height of the Cold War, on 1 January 1959, a guerrilla army led by Fidel Castro defeated the US-backed Batista government. Attempts by the US government to undermine Castro’s new administration,...

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Reagan restates foreign policy (1981)

Genre

News report; Press conference

Report on a press conference held by US President Ronald Reagan in which he again predicted the possibility of nuclear war in Europe, and spoke on the Middle East peace process and disagreements between...

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More Rocket Protests

Date released

25 Dec 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1542A

NoS ID

022770

Story no

4 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rocket Protests. DESCRIPTION: Members and supporters of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War were on the march again, foot-slogging with their slogans to the Thor missile...

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GLC civil defence policy defies government (1982)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Simon Turney, GLC’s Public Service Committee Chairman, about ignoring official Government directives on civil defence in case of nuclear war. Female interviewer not identified.

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War (1980)

Genre

Feature; Public information

Feature presented by Gwynne Dyer, a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, about nuclear war. Includes interviews with soldiers, historians and academics: Captain Brian Van Meter;...

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Attack warning red (1980)

Genre

Feature; Vox pop

A feature containing interviews and dramatised events describing the effects of a nuclear war, written and researched by Peter Brooks. Looks at the possibility of a nuclear attack and the reasons why Britain...

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Kissinger wide-ranging interview (1994)

Genre

Interview; Discussion

Peter Deeley interviews Dr Henry Kissinger, US President Richard Nixon’s Secretary of State at Claridges as he visits England to promote his new book, Diplomacy. Kissinger describes what it takes to be a...

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Leon Brittan guests on talk show (1980)

Genre

Advertisement; Phone-in; News bulletin; Interview; Talk show

Vivian White presents a phone-in programme discussing left-handedness; the government proposal to legalise CB radios; letter from David Steel, Liberal Party leader offering a coalition with the Labour Party;...

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Neil Kinnock rallying speech at Labour Party Conference (1986)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on Labour leader Neil Kinnock’s rallying speech at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool. Includes excerpts of the speech in which Kinnock condemns the Thatcher years; on expelling eight...

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Supervolcano (2000 Video)

aka: Supervolcanos

Producer

Mark Hedgecoe

Subject

Geology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £15.99 (retail) £99.99 (BBC Active)

The year is 2020 and the world faces the ultimate threat. Not nuclear war or a terrorist attack, but the eruption of a gigantic ‘supervolcano’ simmering beneath Yellowstone Park. The last eruption of...

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