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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Cold War Tank Tales from the Land Down Under (321) 2023-12-02
Jack's dramatic Cold War escape across the fortified Inner German border (320) 2023-11-25
How President Kennedy's assassination almost started World War 3 (319) 2023-11-22
The lazy schoolboy who became a Cold War Vulcan nuclear bomber pilot (318) 2023-11-18
Across the Iron Curtain in a yellow MG Midget sports car (317) 2023-11-11
1983 - the year the Cold War almost turned hot (316) 2023-11-04
Serving in a Cold War Danish Reconnaissance Squadron (315) 2023-10-27
The Cold War Atomic Spies (314) 2023-10-20
Spying on NATO from a Cold War East German Army radio monitoring base Part 2 (313) 2023-10-13
Spying on NATO from a Cold War East German Army radio monitoring base Part 1 (312) 2023-10-06
Cold War US Army tank gunner serves with a Bundeswehr Panzer unit (311) 2023-09-29
Uncovering Cold War Soviet secrets with the USAF and NSA (310) 2023-09-22
REME Keeping the British Army on the road during the Cold War (309) 2023-09-15
Gunfire in the Woods: A foiled escape and imprisonment in Cold War East Germany (308) 2023-09-08
Growing up in Cold War East Germany's Valley of the Clueless (307) 2023-09-01
Flying the Cold War A10 Tankbuster Part 2 (306) 2023-08-25
Flying the Cold War A10 Tankbuster Part 1 (305) 2023-08-18
A Cold War Polish childhood near Wroclaw (304) 2023-08-11
Soviet MIG shoots-down a US RB-47H reconnaissance plane (303) 2023-08-04
The rise and fall of East German leader Erich Honecker (302) 2023-07-28
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