Award-winning real stories of the Cold War told by those who were there. Every week we interview an eyewitness of the Cold War. Across soldiers, spies, civilians, and others, we aim to cover the whole range of Cold War experiences. Hosts Ian Sanders, James Chilcott, and Peter Ryan bring your ears into the heart of the Cold War. Reading a history book is one thing, but hearing a human voice, with every breath, hesitation and intonation brings a whole new dimension to understanding what it was like to be there. 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, wargaming, planes, A Level, GCSE students

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Don - Vietnam war Armoured Cavalry Platoon Leader (143) 2020-10-09
In Cold War Skies – NATO and Soviet airpower 1949-89 (142) 2020-10-02
I was a deep cover KGB spy Part 2 (141) 2020-09-25
I was a deep cover KGB spy Part 1 (140) 2020-09-18
Portland Spy Ring Part 2 (139) 2020-09-11
Portland Spy Ring Part 1 (138) 2020-09-04
The Last British Commandant in Cold War West Berlin Part 2 (137) 2020-08-28
The Last British Commandant in Cold War West Berlin Part 1 (136) 2020-08-21
Eva - A Cold War Czechoslovak Childhood (135) 2020-08-14
My father was Cold War Stasi spy Werner Stiller (134) 2020-08-07
Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War (133) 2020-07-31
Cold War Czechoslovak hockey star defects to Canada (132) 2020-07-24
Robert - The anti Cold War activist (131) 2020-07-17
Susan - An American teaching English in East Germany (130) 2020-07-11
The KGB tried to recruit me (129) 2020-07-03
Experiencing the Cold War via virtual reality (128) 2020-06-26
Cold War US Army Intelligence Analyst (127) 2020-06-19
Reporting the 1989 Romanian Revolution (126) 2020-06-12
A British Journalist under Stasi Surveillance (125) 2020-06-05
Cold War Britain & The Bomb (124) 2020-05-29
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