{"id":40536,"date":"2019-11-11T08:07:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=40536"},"modified":"2019-11-11T08:07:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:07:18","slug":"the-bbc-and-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-bbc-and-the-cold-war\/","title":{"rendered":"“The BBC and the Cold War”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A vintage radio from Kim Andre Elliott’s collection.<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Kris Partridge, who writes:<\/p>\n

With Saturday being the 30th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, BBC OnLine has posted this to commemorate the anniversary:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/historyofthebbc\/100-voices\/coldwar<\/a><\/p>\n

The Cold War was the defining global conflict of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Fought across multiple terrains, the \u201csoft power\u201d of international broadcasting placed the BBC on the frontline of the information war.To commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we explore the role the BBC played in communicating our understanding and experience of the Cold War, with the help of newly-released oral history interviews with those involved.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click here to view this collection of stories and memories at the BBC.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks so much for sharing this, Kris!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kris Partridge, who writes: With Saturday being the 30th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, BBC OnLine has posted this to commemorate the anniversary: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/historyofthebbc\/100-voices\/coldwar The Cold War was the defining global conflict of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Fought across multiple terrains, the \u201csoft […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288],"tags":[104,752,5584],"class_list":["post-40536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-bbc","tag-cold-war","tag-kris-partridge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-axO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26950,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/bbc-radio-4-bbc-monitorings-move-from-caversham-park\/","url_meta":{"origin":40536,"position":0},"title":"BBC Radio 4: BBC Monitoring’s move from Caversham Park","author":"Thomas","date":"July 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Kris Partridge (G8AUU) who writes: BBC Monitoring is leaving it\u2019s home of over 70 years and moving to Central London. 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