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  • Harold Macmillan, Part 1

    Harold Macmillan, Part 1
    2025/12/08

    A new series on former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, a man born in the Victorian era who led Britain into her thermonuclear age and through the Cuban Missile Crisis.


    This episode starts with his horrible experiences in the trenches and takes us up to his 1954 appointment as Defence Secretary, but we take in Greek tragedy, adultery, plane crashes and a bit of Ronnie Kray on the way.


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    The books I quote from today are:


    • Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan, by D.R. Thorpe
    • Churchill and the Bomb, by Kevin Ruane
    • The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years, by Harold Macmillan

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    34 分
  • When The Wind Blows, Part 16

    When The Wind Blows, Part 16
    2025/12/02

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    This week, Jim retreats into daydreams, and Hilda dishes out hard truths at the kitchen sink. Which one is best equipped to face the coming horror: the dreamer or the realist?


    PS I left one of my puppy's snores in the recording as it was cute. I used to sometimes do this with Bomba's snores, so here is one of Gadget's.

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    33 分
  • When The Wind Blows, Part 15

    When The Wind Blows, Part 15
    2025/11/25
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    31 分
  • POP! 99 Red Balloons

    POP! 99 Red Balloons
    2025/11/18

    The chart-topping 1983 hit about nuclear war - even though the band insisted it was no such thing!


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    33 分
  • When The Wind Blows, Part 14

    When The Wind Blows, Part 14
    2025/11/10

    Lions and tigers and bears? Oh my! We see that everything becomes a threat after nuclear war. And what is that strange scent hanging in the air?


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    31 分
  • France - Part Trois

    France - Part Trois
    2025/11/03
    The final part of our look at Savoir Pour Vivre, the French civil defence booklet.

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    32 分
  • A Canticle for Leibowitz

    A Canticle for Leibowitz
    2025/10/29

    The weird post-nuclear novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz.


    We will continue our series on the French civil defence booklet next week. I just couldn't resist interrupting my own schedule with an episode on this mind-bending novel.

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    42 分
  • France, Part Deux

    France, Part Deux
    2025/10/21
    We look at the French civil defence booklet, Savoir Pour Vivre.

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    38 分