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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Defending the Cold War Fulda Gap (41) 2018-12-22
A British Journalist in Cold War East Berlin (40) 2018-12-15
Cold War East German Army Officer Training (39) 2018-12-08
Training to be a Cold War US Army Tank Commander (38) 2018-12-01
Antje - The Girl Behind The Berlin Wall (37) 2018-11-24
Life in Cold War East Germany Photography Exhibition (36) 2018-11-18
The man who owns a Cold War Soviet submarine (35) 2018-11-10
Samy - Life as a West Berliner in Cold War Berlin (34) 2018-11-03
Eileen - A British teacher living & working in Cold War East Berlin 2018-10-26
Eileen - A British student living in Cold War East Germany (32) 2018-10-20
The Korean War in Britain (31) 2018-10-12
Leaving your family to go off to a nuclear war (30) 2018-10-06
Cold War Living History Event - The Soviet Threat (29) 2018-09-29
Cold War USAF pilot Buz Carpenter talks Vietnam recon, Skunkworks and more 2018-09-21
Flying the Cold War Blackbird SR71 Spyplane (27) 2018-09-15
My father was the leader of the Soviet Union - Part 2 (26) 2018-09-07
My father was the leader of the Soviet Union - Part 1 (25) 2018-09-02
Cold War West German Nuclear Monitoring System (24) 2018-08-25
Gary Powers & the 1960 U2 Incident 2018-08-18
The Trabant car - East German icon (22) 2018-08-11
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