Experience the Cold War like never before with Cold War Conversations — an award-winning podcast recommended by The New York Times. Each week, host Ian Sanders brings you raw, firsthand accounts from the people who lived through one of history’s most tense and transformative eras — soldiers, spies, civilians, and more. These aren’t stories from textbooks. They’re unfiltered voices from the frontlines of history — emotional, gripping, and deeply human. This is Cold War history, told from the inside out. We cover subjects such as spies, spying, the Iron Curtain, nuclear weapons, warfare, tanks, jet aircraft, fighters, bombers, transport aircraft, aviation, culture, and politics. We also cover personalities such as Fidel Castro, JFK, Ronald Reagan, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Konstantin Chernenko, Margaret Thatcher, John F. Kennedy, Josef Stalin, Richard Nixon, Lech Walesa, General Jaruzelski, Nicolae Ceaușescu. Other subjects include Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, West Berlin, East Berlin, Cuban missile Crisis, Berlin Airlift, Bay of Pigs, SALT, Perestroika, Space Race, superpower, USSR, Soviet Union, DDR, GDR, East Germany, SDI, Vietnam War, Korean War, Solidarność, Fall of the Wall, Berliner Mauer, Trabant, Communist, Capitalist, Able Archer, KGB, Stasi, STB, SB, Securitate, CIA, NSA, MI5, MI6, Berlin Wall, escape, defection, Cuba, Albania, football, sport, Bulgaria, Soviet Union, Poland, China, Taiwan, Austria, West Germany, Solidarity, espionage, HUMINT, SIGINT, OSINT, IMINT, GEOINT, RAF, USAF, British Army, US Army, Red Army, Soviet Army, Afghanistan, NVA, East German Army, KAL007, T-72, T-64, Chieftain, M60 The podcast is for military veterans, school teachers, university lecturers, students and those interested in Cold War history, museums, bunkers, weapons, AFVs, wargamers, planes, A Level, GCSE students studying Superpower Relations and the Cold War.

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A Cold War US Soldier defects to East Germany (61) 2019-05-03
Working at the British Embassy in Cold War Bucharest (60) 2019-04-26
A 1980s trip on the Trans Siberian Railway (59) 2019-04-19
58 - Red Reporter - Covert Correspondent for East Germany - Part 2 2019-04-12
A 17 year old in the Cold War US Army (57) 2019-04-05
The Cold War Candy Bomber (56) 2019-03-30
Why Preserve Cold War Communist Architecture? (55) 2019-03-23
Cold War Canadians Hunt For Red October (54) 2019-03-16
Cold War East German Army Officer at the Fall of the Berlin Wall (53) 2019-03-09
László Nagy - A Cold War Hungarian Life (52) 2019-03-02
The Cold War Blood Tattoo (51) 2019-02-27
The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science - Freedom's Laboratory (50) 2019-02-23
An RAF pilot remembers the end of the Cold War (49) 2019-02-16
Gillian - A US Student visits Cold War Poland in 1989 (48) 2019-02-09
Red Reporter - Covert Correspondent for Cold War East Germany - Part 1 (47) 2019-02-02
The Berlin Trilogy - Author Interview (46) 2019-01-26
Cold War East German Army Officer at the 40th Anniversary Parade of East Germany (45) 2019-01-19
Cold War intercepts of Soviet Aircraft with the RAF (44) 2019-01-12
Cold War Conversations highlights of 2018 - a whistle stop tour (43) 2019-01-05
Gillian - A US Student visiting Cold War East Germany (42) 2018-12-29
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