Episode 3. Tim Harford tells the story of Thomas Schelling, an economist who helped America and the Soviet Union to avoid nuclear war.
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War Games and Armageddon | Tim Harford Pop-Up Economics (BBC)
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Tracking the Lincolnshire Poacher
Simon Fanshawe embarks on a detective journey into the clandestine world of radio cryptography and attempts to solve one of the most unusual broadcast mysteries of all time.
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Stuff You Should Know
Did Reagan’s Star Wars Program Win the Cold War? — Putting lasers in space to blast Soviet missiles out of the air was a real part of Ronald Reagan’s defense policy. While his "Star Wars" program was derided at home and abroad, historians are beginning to wonder if it didn’t help win the Cold War.
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Caustic Soda: Cold War Part Two
The Cold War part two of two, with guest Allan Newell, includes: the nuclear arms race; Project: Ice Worm, LSD & the CIA; bungled Fidel Castro assassination attempts. Plus news and pop culture including Dr Strangelove, Manchurian Candidate, Thirteen Days, Our Man in Havana, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! and Red Dawn.
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Caustic Soda: Cold War Part One
Allan Newell joins us to talk about as many caustic facets of the cold war that we could fit into a 2 hour mini-series. In part one we talk about the origin and players, then get into Igor Gouzenko and the space race, including top-secret projects to nuke the moon!
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Spam call: John sings about life insurance
A spam phone call from John who I attempt to seduce in a hotel and I persuade to sing to me.
I get one of these every 2 days so have decided to waste their time and record them. More spam answered at http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/spam-letters/
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LAW Radio - 11.03.2011 - Stone Cold Steve Austin
LAW Radio - 11.03.2011 - Stone Cold Steve Austin
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Berlin 1961
In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin "the most dangerous place on earth." American and Soviet fighting men and tanks stood only yards apart. Frederick Kempe talks about what made Berlin so dangerous. His book Berlin 1961 is based on a wealth of new documents and interviews, filled with fresh insights, and is a masterly look at key events of the 20th century, with powerful applications to these early years of the 21st century.
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Nuclear Arms and Human Rights
Public Lectures and Events: podcasts - Podcasts - LSE
Speaker: Professor Niall Ferguson
Chair: Professor Michael Cox
This event was recorded on 1 March 2011 in Old Theatre, Old Building
The decisive breakthroughs in the Cold War occurred in seemingly unrelated fields – nuclear arms control and human rights. But was the collapse of communism a reflection of imperial overstretch or the result of liberal aspirations for freedom?
This event celebrates the publication of Professor Ferguson’s new book Civilization: The West and the Rest. Niall Ferguson is Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at LSE IDEAS for 2010-11.http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm#generated-subheading9
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LSE Literary Festival 2011 - Through the Soviet Looking-Glass
Public Lectures and Events: podcasts - Podcasts - LSE
Speaker: Francis Spufford
Chair: Professor Janet Hartley
This event was recorded on 19 February 2011 in Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
At first sight, the USSR of the 1950s and 1960s is a formidably remote and strange place for an early 21st-century western observer to try to inhabit: ideological, materially alien, suffused with obsolete expectations, and operating in its daily life and economic life according to rules that eerily reverse our own. But the reward for crossing this particular imaginative border, argues Francis Spufford, is the discovery, in the mirrorworld of the Soviet Union, of deeply recognisable human behaviour, and deeply familiar human hopes.
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