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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A UK Journalist in the Soviet Union & GDR (123) 2020-05-22
A 23 year old Cold War nuclear missile commander (122) 2020-05-15
The Last Days of Cold War East Germany (121) 2020-05-08
Special Forces Berlin - Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990 (120) 2020-05-01
Alan - Working in the GDR and the Soviet Union (119) 2020-04-24
Cold War Warsaw Bureau Chief for Time Magazine 1981-83 (118) 2020-04-17
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War (117) 2020-04-10
Boarding Soviet Ships with the Cold War Danish Navy (116) 2020-04-03
Taking A Holiday in Cold War Albania (115) 2020-03-28
Life as a British Soldier in Cold War West Berlin (114) 2020-03-21
Railway Encounters in Cold War Eastern Europe (113) 2020-03-14
Nuclear War in Cold War Britain (112) 2020-03-07
Serving in the Cold War British Army Intelligence Corps during the 1960s & 70s (111) 2020-02-29
Bonus - Dr Strangelove Film Screening in a Nuclear Bunker (110) 2020-02-26
Stasi Infiltration of the Cold War East German Church (109) 2020-02-22
The Regimes Museum (108) 2020-02-15
Assigned to a Cold War Government Nuclear Bunker (107) 2020-02-08
The First Western Pilot to Fly the Cold War Soviet MIG 29 Fighter (106) 2020-02-01
Children of the Cold War Bulgarian Silent Revolution (105) 2020-01-25
The Cold War Berlin spy tunnel - Operation Gold (103) 2020-01-11
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