BBC R4 - Britain's Cuban Missile Crisis

BBC R4 Documentary - 'Britain's Cuban Missile Crisis'

Broadcast in the 'Document' series

Presented by Mike Thomson

Produced by Neil George

Broadcast September 25, 2008

Coded from tape at 128/44.1



Britain's preparations for war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.



BBC Blurb

In the last week of October 1962, the world famously held its

breath as two superpowers teetered on the precipice of nuclear

war. The incident has gone down in history as a war of nerves

between the Kremlin and the White House, but what role was

the British Government playing, and what decisions was Prime

Minister Harold Macmillan making on behalf of his people?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis