{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69206d2c087c4173ab6a8c1f/69a0bdbceebc4a99c61685e2?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Series 4: The Soundbite of the Century Episode 2","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69206d2c087c4173ab6a8c1f/1772142063964-52d5d45f-5b4e-45ac-876e-217720a5e143.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Professor Richard Toye and Dr. Warren Dockter explore the immediate reaction to Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech of March 1946 - and its enduring legacy.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>And they show how Churchill's phrase came to sum up the division of Europe,  with the Soviet Union dominating \"behind the Iron Curtain\".</p>","author_name":"Prof. Richard Toye and Dr. Warren Dockter"}