Podcast Episodes

When The Wind Blows, Part 13

Jim lets the vampire, Fallout, cross the threshold!

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

The Bell and Light System

The Bell and Light alert system, used in America in the early Cold War.

I discuss the booklet A Realistic Approach to Civil Defense, from 1966.

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

When The Wind Blows, Part 12

"All dead..."

Jim tries the TV, the radio, the phone...but there's nothing. "All dead..." he keeps saying.

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10 months, 4 weeks ago

Interview with Dr Richard Lawson on the "suicide pill" question

In 1983, a GP from a village near Bristol was so worried about the prospect of nuclear war, and how it would leave him unable to effectively treat hi…

11 months, 1 week ago

Euthanasia in Nuclear War

A difficult subject this week - but aren't they all? We don't do sunshine and rainbows on this pod.

I look at the topic of "suicide pills" which was …

11 months, 2 weeks ago

When The Wind Blows, Part 11

"I never knew a bomb could give you a headache."

The fallout descends and Jim and Hilda start to feel ill.

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1 year ago

Fiascos, Mormons and Graves: Nuclear News from 1981 Aldershot

I go into the newspaper archives to see what the local papers in Aldershot were saying about nuclear war in the early 80s.

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1 year, 1 month ago

When The Wind Blows, Part 10

Their first hours within the tiny inner refuge.

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1 year, 1 month ago

Paper Tigers

Chairman Mao and his "paper tigers".

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1 year, 1 month ago

When The Wind Blows, Part 9

The first terrible 48 hours after the Bomb drops...

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1 year, 1 month ago