BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking: Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales

Citation

Douthwaite J (2022) BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking: Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales. [Radio programme] 20.09.2022.

Abstract
Ian McEwan's new novel Lessons sets a relationship against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis and the fall of the wall in Berlin. Researcher and artist Michael Mulvihill, from the University of Newcastle, has been recording the sounds of radar interference and uncovering the archives held at RAF Fylingdales in Yorkshire which depict the replacement of the "golf balls" and the technology involved in operating the early warning systems. Jessica Douthwaite, University of Stirling, is looking at how the cold war is collected and represented in museum collections across the UK and is a historian of civilian experiences of the cold war in Britain. Christoph Laucht, from Swansea University, researches responses to the nuclear threat. They join Anne McElvoy to discuss the impact of the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 and public fears about nuclear conflict.

Notes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001c05p

People

Dr Jessica Douthwaite

Post Doctoral Research Fellow, History