262. Berlin Blockade: Airlift Across The Iron Curtain (Ep 2)

Empire

Jack Davenport

History

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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When was Checkpoint Charlie created in Berlin? What triggered Stalin to enact a blockade on West Berlin? And how did the Western powers airlift over 2.3 million tons of supplies to their occupied zone of the city from 1948 to 1949? William and Anita are joined once again by Giles Milton, author of Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World, to discuss the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, and the way in which the Iron Curtain hardened towards the end of the 1940s. ----------------- Empire Club: Become a member of the Empire Club to receive early access to miniseries, ad-free listening, early access to live show tickets, bonus episodes, book discounts, our exclusive newsletter, and access to our members’ chatroom on Discord! Head to empirepoduk.com to sign up. For more Goalhanger Podcasts, head to www.goalhanger.com. ----------------- Email: [email protected] Instagram: @empirepoduk Blue Sky: @empirepoduk X: @empirepoduk Assistant Producer: Becki Hills Producer: Anouska Lewis Senior Producer: Callum Hill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:03.1	What are you doing?
1:04.0	Is this a clue?
1:06.3	I'm not going on me to go do it.
1:08.0	Of course not.
1:09.3	No, no, I think you should do it now.
1:11.4	That was weird. No, no, no. No. No. not how we normally do it. Hello. And welcome to Empire with me,
1:18.6	Anita Arndt, and apparently an uprising from you, William Dalrymple. I just tried to do the intro,
1:25.5	and I got put firmly back in my place.
1:27.9	So previously on this podcast, we have been in the company of the fabulous,
1:32.3	before the South West London Spring, as we now call it.
1:41.0	Bloody hell.
1:42.3	We were in the company of the very patient, it turns out, and brilliant Giles Milton, author of the,
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