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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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
Escaping from Cold War Romania (231) 2022-04-15
A Hungarian childhood in Cold War Romania (230) 2022-04-08
The shooting down of KAL007, the Able Archer exercise and the nuclear war scare of 1983 (229) 2022-04-01
Charlotte Philby talks about her grandfather Soviet spy Kim Philby & her book "Edith & Kim" (228) 2022-03-26
The first woman to graduate from French Commando school (227) 2022-03-19
Betrayed by comrades (226) 2022-03-12
My father, the KGB spy (225) 2022-03-05
"Three, Two, one, detonation..." a Royal Navy nuclear test veteran remembers (224) 2022-02-26
The Stasi Poetry Circle (223) 2022-02-19
The start of the Cuban revolution & the launch of Apollo 8 (222) 2022-02-16
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