Series 4: The Soundbite of the Century Episode 2

Professor Richard Toye and Dr. Warren Dockter explore the immediate reaction to Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech of March 1946 - and its enduring legacy.Outlining responses by everyone from members of the British public to Stalin (who denounced the speech in forthright terms), they show how an address made in a small town in Missouri echoed round the world.They ask how a rallying cry for freedom was received by African-Americans, particularly when the speech was delivered to an all-white audience in a segregated state.And they show how Churchill's phrase came to sum up the division of Europe, with the Soviet Union dominating "behind the Iron Curtain". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.