Nuclear fall-out shelters

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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How Britain prepared for the advent of nuclear war by not building enough fall-out shelters but having enough tea bags in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, you're listening to the We Are History podcast.
0:10.6	I'm Angela Barnes.
0:11.5	And I'm John O'Farrell.
0:12.6	And we're sitting in my living room today recording this episode, which I'm very excited about John,
0:17.0	because it's my, it's my nerdy area of obsession.
0:20.5	Obsession is the right word the poster on the
0:23.2	wall you've got pictures on your wall on this subject this is how obsessed you are with it I am we are
0:27.7	talking today about sorry I'm going to sort of bloody dog out it's the one you've been lobbying for
0:33.1	since we started doing this podcast it is where how many have have we recorded now? About a dozen, I think.
0:37.8	About a dozen.
0:38.3	You finally let me talk about the thing that I've been dying to talk about.
0:41.8	I am a little bit obsessed.
0:43.5	It's fair to say with.
0:44.2	What we're talking about today is, well, it's Cold War era, which is my favorite time.
0:49.7	She loves a bit of Cold War.
0:50.5	I love it. And we are talking about how the UK was planning for a nuclear attack.
0:58.3	Great.
0:58.8	Right.
0:59.2	And I think we forget sort of sitting here in 2020.
1:02.5	We sort of forget that people really thought it was going to happen.
1:06.1	Right.
1:06.7	Yes.
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