A journey along the Iron Curtain

Published: Jan. 24, 2023, midnight

b"In 1946, Churchill declared that \\u201cfrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent\\u201d. But what exactly did this rhetorical border look like during the Cold War, and what\\u2019s happening along it today? Timothy Phillips tells David Musgrove about his experiences travelling the length of the border between east and west, exploring the borderlands where a clash of ideologies was at its most intense. \\n \\n(Ad) Timothy Phillips is the author of The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border (Granta Books, 2022). Buy it now from Waterstones:\\nhttps://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-curtain-and-the-wall%2Ftimothy-phillips%2F9781783785766\\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"