Bridget Kendall talks to Dr Kristina Spohr and Professor David Reynolds FBA about the book they have edited, "Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970-1990" (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Speakers:

Bridget Kendall, former BBC diplomatic correspondent, now Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Dr Kristina Spohr, Associate Professor of International History, London School of Economics
Professor David Reynolds FBA, Professor of International History, University of Cambridge

Recorded 19 July 2016

Transcending the Cold War discussion with Bridget Kendall

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