Atomic Hobo
By Julie McDowall
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Episodes: 244
Mar 23, 2022
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A weekly podcast on how we prepared for nuclear war.
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Harold Macmillan, Part 1
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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When The Wind Blows, Part 16
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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When The Wind Blows, Part 15
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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POP! 99 Red Balloons
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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When The Wind Blows, Part 14
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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France - Part Trois
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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France, Part Deux
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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France, Part One
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Germany's Emergency Alert System
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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When The Wind Blows, Part 13
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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The Bell and Light System
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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When The Wind Blows, Part 12
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Interview with Dr Richard Lawson on the "suicide pill" question
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Euthanasia in Nuclear War
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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When The Wind Blows, Part 11
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Fiascos, Mormons and Graves: Nuclear News from 1981 Aldershot
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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When The Wind Blows, Part 10
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Paper Tigers
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May 27, 2025 |
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When The Wind Blows, Part 9
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May 19, 2025 |
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Four Minutes of When The Wind Blows, Part 8
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May 12, 2025 |
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When The Wind Blows, Part 7
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Operation Wake Up!
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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A Silly Name for the H-Bomb
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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When The Wind Blows, Part 6
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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"Killed Twice": Cars in Nuclear Tests
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Annie and Her Flying Toilet
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Four Minutes of When the Wind Blows, Part 5
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Praying for Nuclear War
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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When The Wind Blows, Part 4
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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This Is Only A Jingle
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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CONELRAD
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Santa and the Nuclear Tests
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Artesia's Underground School
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Trekking Out To Chico
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Richland - The Atom-Bustin' Village of the West!
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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It's the Plutonium Pioneers!
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Four Minutes of When The Wind Blows - Part 3
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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The Cobalt Bomb says...Hold My Beer!
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Nuclear News from 1980s Sussex
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Four Minutes of When The Wind Blows, Part 2
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Riddley Walker
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Four Minutes of When The Wind Blows
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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The FINAL Four Minutes of Threads
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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The Doomies Go To Washington
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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The Committee on the Present Danger
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May 28, 2024 |
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Sweden - Part 5
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May 21, 2024 |
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Sweden - Part 4
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May 14, 2024 |
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Sweden - Part 3
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May 07, 2024 |
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Sweden - Part 2
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Sweden - Part 1
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part 28
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Fallout Shelters in US Schools
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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1953: Churchill in Bermuda
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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No Nukes and Kisses
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Hurricane! Britain gets the bomb
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Why Australia?
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part 27
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Canadians Don't Flap!
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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N.E.A.R.
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Atomic Wonderland
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Sorry We Missed You!
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Ted Turner's Doomsday Video
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Four Minutes to Midnight - 1981 BBC lecture
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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The Growling Bombers
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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The Bloody Union Jack on Top of It!
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part 26
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Project Sunshine, Part 2
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Project Sunshine, Part 1
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part 25
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May 29, 2023 |
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The Real Threads: Civil Defence in the US Fabric and Textile Industry
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May 22, 2023 |
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Don't Mention The War!
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May 10, 2023 |
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Free extract from ATTACK WARNING RED audiobook
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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The Trouble With Balloons
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part 24
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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POP! Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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American Industrial Civil Defence
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part 23
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Neither snow nor rain nor nuclear war...
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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One Minute of Threads, Part 22
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Listeners' Letters of Last Resort
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Prime Ministers and the Bomb: LIZ TRUSS
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part 21
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Sheffield Special - Part 3
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Sheffield Special - Part 2
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Sheffield Special - Part 1
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Getting Frustrated In Battle Creek
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part 20
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part 19
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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The Hawaii False Alarm
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Where Have All The Sirens Gone?
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Kaliningrad, Part 2
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Kaliningrad, Part 1
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part 18
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Quick Announcement!
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE - Interview with Nicholas Meyer, director of THE DAY AFTER
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May 26, 2022 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE - Interview with Joshua Pollack
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May 23, 2022 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part 17
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May 16, 2022 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE - Interview with Pavel Podvig about Russia's nuclear forces
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May 12, 2022 |
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Victory Parade - Moscow May 1985
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May 09, 2022 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE - Interview with Richard Spencer about Kharkiv Metro
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May 05, 2022 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE - Interview with Mark Galeotti on Russia and the Nuclear Threat
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May 03, 2022 |
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Azovstal and Soviet Industrial Civil Defence
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Four Minutes of The War Game
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part XVI
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part XV
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Bash the Octopus on the Head! - Massive Retaliation
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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The Norwegian Rocket Incident
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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The Credible Threat of Tactical Nukes
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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The Madman Theory
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Kevin Keegan and Crossbows: SPOTLIGHT, January 1982
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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The Bloody Union Jack On Top Of It!
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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America, Why Won't You Write?
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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John Anderson and the Missed Bus
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part XIV
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Miss Nagasaki
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Xmas Special - NUCLEAR WINTER with Dr Steve Arnold
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part XIII
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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SPOTLIGHT, Part 2
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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SPOTLIGHT, Part 1
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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The Lake of Jade
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Purple Fire
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Kokura's Luck
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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A Vixen on a Feather Bed
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part XII
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Willy Wonka's Nuclear Factories
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Sound An Alarm
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part XI
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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The NHS and Nuclear War
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Royal Observer Corps
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Interview with Rita May (Mrs Kemp in THREADS)
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Short extract from the book...
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May 31, 2021 |
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Cauliflower and Plym: Britain's First Atomic Bomb
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May 24, 2021 |
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A Saturday Job After Nuclear War
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May 17, 2021 |
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Target North West
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May 10, 2021 |
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Interview with director of THREADS, Mick Jackson
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part X
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Minuteman
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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How To Survive An Atomic Bomb, Part II
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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How To Survive An Atomic Bomb
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Thirteen Days, Part II
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Thirteen Days
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part IX
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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The Surrey Streetwatchers
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Fylingdales and the Four-Minute Warning
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Tracking the Bone Seeker: The Baby Tooth Survey
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Sex Bombs
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Underground Nuclear Testing, Part II
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Underground Nuclear Testing
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part VIII
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Ladybug, Ladybug
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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The Russian Woodpecker
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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The Irish Triangle
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Priscilla and the Pigs
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Pennies and Gravediggers
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part VII
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Fail Safe
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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1983: Cruise Missiles in Britain
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Disaster Syndrome and Project East River
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Sick Presidents and Broken Biscuits
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Panic!
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Soviet Nuclear Testing in Kazakhstan
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Hack Green Nuclear Bunker
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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Tsar Bomba, Part II
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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Tsar Bomba
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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Special Episode: Interview with William Perry and Tom Collina
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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Nuclear War Games, Part II
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Nuclear War Games: Square Leg, Pt 1
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part VI
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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The Creation of the Hydrogen Bomb
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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Spies for Peace
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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On The Beach
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part V
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May 31, 2020 |
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The Green Goddess
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May 24, 2020 |
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Yikes! It's the Strath Report!
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May 17, 2020 |
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The Waking Point
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May 11, 2020 |
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Civil Defence Corps Can Put On A Show!
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May 05, 2020 |
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Kicking the Air Raid Warden
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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PYTHON
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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STORYTIME: Second-Hand Time
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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The Scourge of the Lefties!
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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STORYTIME: Shadows on the Tundra
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Stay At Home!
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part IV
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Special episode - The Knowledge with Lewis Dartnell
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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The Neutron Bomb
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Tidy Up for Nuclear War!
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Enola Gay
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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Atomic Pop Music of the 1950s
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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Firestorm - Dresden, Hamburg, Hiroshima
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Feb 16, 2020 |
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Windscale and Atomic Milk
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Feb 09, 2020 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part 3
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Feb 02, 2020 |
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Mocking Protect and Survive
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Jan 26, 2020 |
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Operation RYAN
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Jan 12, 2020 |
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The Great Cat and Dog Massacre
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Four Minutes of Threads, Part 2
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Dec 22, 2019 |
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Kitchen Patriots
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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The Nuclear NHS
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Dec 08, 2019 |
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Four Minutes of Threads
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Nov 17, 2019 |
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Dr Strangelove and the Dead Hand
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Nov 10, 2019 |
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A British Guide To The End Of The World
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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Brother In The Land
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Oct 13, 2019 |
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Special episode: Interview with Taras Young
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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Greenham Common: "Dirty" Women and Angry Locals
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Sep 22, 2019 |
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"Excruciating pain!": When the BBC Offended the Civil Defence Corps
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Sep 15, 2019 |
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1980s Nuclear Pop Music
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Sep 08, 2019 |
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The Road
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Sep 01, 2019 |
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It's Crackers!
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Aug 25, 2019 |
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Gold Phones and Red Phones: Telephones in Nuclear War
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Aug 18, 2019 |
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Nuclear Kids
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Aug 11, 2019 |
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False Alarm!
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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Protect and Survive Monthly
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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Inside the Soviet Union (Part 2)
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Jul 14, 2019 |
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Inside the Soviet Union with Kristaps Andrejsons
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Jul 07, 2019 |
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Atomic Dog Tags
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Jun 30, 2019 |
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Australia
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Operation Alert and the Angry Mothers
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Jun 16, 2019 |
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Kiev and the Soviet metro systems
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Jun 09, 2019 |
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The York Experiment
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Jun 02, 2019 |
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1980s Nuclear TV
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May 19, 2019 |
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Underground Art
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Apr 28, 2019 |
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The Police and Nuclear War
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Apr 14, 2019 |
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West Germany
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Apr 07, 2019 |
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The Bomb Will Drive You Mad
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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The Last Word - The BBC and Nuclear War
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Mar 10, 2019 |
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Trains in Nuclear War
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Mar 03, 2019 |
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Who'll Save The Queen?
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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New Zealand
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Feb 03, 2019 |
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What Would You Do?
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Jan 27, 2019 |
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The Sea
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Jan 20, 2019 |
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Ireland
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Jan 13, 2019 |
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Forced Labour
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Jan 06, 2019 |
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The Bible and the Bomb
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Oct 28, 2018 |
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Some Place Where There Isn't Any Sky
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Oct 21, 2018 |
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How To Run Away!
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Oct 14, 2018 |
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Fallout on the Farm
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Sep 30, 2018 |
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Prague
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Aug 26, 2018 |
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Survive Beside The Seaside
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Aug 19, 2018 |
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Stockpiling food for nuclear war
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Jul 29, 2018 |
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Advising the Householder
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Jul 15, 2018 |
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Chernobyl - Special episode
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Jun 17, 2018 |
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Threads
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Jun 10, 2018 |
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Shoot Thy Neighbour
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May 20, 2018 |
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Letters of Last Resort
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May 06, 2018 |