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The Iron Curtain

The Iron Curtain

FromThe History Hour


The Iron Curtain

FromThe History Hour

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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Mar 6, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Churchill's Iron Curtain speech about the Cold War, the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa which radicalised many anti-apartheid movements and we hear from a man whose relatives were killed when police bombed the home of African-American radicals in the US. Plus how Nauru became a Pacific island limbo for asylum seekers and the first man to dive to the deepest point on the planet - the bottom of the Mariana Trench. We'll also hear from a BBC science correspondent about why we know more about space than the deepest depths of the ocean.

Photo: Winston Churchill at the podium delivering his "Iron Curtain" speech, at Westminster College in Fulton Missouri, 5th March 1946 (PA)
Released:
Mar 6, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.