Raúl Castro in fact played a central role in shaping the revolution, making his 2008 election perfectly logical, write Prof Par Kumaraswami and Prof Antoni Kapcia Your review (11 August) of the BBC documentary series Cuba: Castro vs The World rightly applauds its well-researched and detailed approach to a subject that is all too often …

The conclusion of this two-part documentary charted the end of the Soviet Union to the Clinton years and beyond, with the former US president joining a superb cast of talking heads It’s been so long since I experienced it – either personally or simply as a possibility in the wider world – that for a …