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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Imprisoned in a Soviet Military gaol - a BRIXMIS officer's diary Pt 2 (251) 2022-09-02
Arrested 11 times, plus 3 shooting incidents - a BRIXMIS officer's diary Pt 1 (250) 2022-08-26
Life in the forbidden zone at the East/West German border (249) 2022-08-19
The girl at the edge of the World - an East German childhood at the West German Border (248) 2022-08-12
A daughter's 18 year search for her Cold War CIA pilot father at the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba (247) 2022-08-05
British Army Air Corps helicopter co-pilot in Cold War Germany (246) 2022-07-29
A boy soldier in the Cold War Royal Engineers (245) 2022-07-22
A Mormon missionary in Cold War East Germany (244) 2022-07-14
US Navy Cold War airborne electronic reconnaissance (243) 2022-07-08
My life laid bare through secret police files (242) 2022-07-01
Royal Military Police versus the Soviets (SOXMIS) in Cold War West Germany (241) 2022-06-24
The man who built his own nuclear bunker (240) 2022-06-17
Cold War number stations (239) 2022-06-10
Air warfare in the Cold War (238) 2022-06-03
Arrested by the KGB and taken to the Lubyanka prison (237) 2022-05-27
The first female CIA officer in Cold War Moscow (236) 2022-05-20
The 1989 World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang, North Korea (235) 2022-05-13
Britain’s Cold War Human Chemical Warfare Experiments (234) 2022-05-06
Flying for the CIA's Air America in South East Asia (233) 2022-04-29
A photojournalist in Cold War Eastern Europe (232) 2022-04-22
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