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 British Communist Working in Cold War East Germany (104) 2020-01-11
Working with high security clearance in the Cold War US Navy (102) 2020-01-04
Interview with Ian Sanders the host and producer of Cold War Conversations (101) 2020-01-01
Manuel - Experiences of the Reforger 82 NATO Exercise (100) 2019-12-28
A Cold War Mystery - Death in Ice Valley (99) 2019-12-21
Red Elvis, Dean Reed Cold War cowboy and Eastern Bloc Music Star Episode 2 (98) 2019-12-14
Red Elvis, Dean Reed the US music star behind the Iron Curtain - Episode 1 (97) 2019-12-07
Tales of my Father (96) 2019-12-03
Alexander - A Conscript in the Soviet Navy (95) 2019-11-30
The Strange World of Cold War Romanian Football (94) 2019-11-23
The Berlin Wall - Frederick Taylor (93) 2019-11-16
Gillian - A US Student at the opening of the Berlin Wall (92) 2019-11-11
Alastair Witnesses the Wende (91) 2019-11-10
The Opening of the Berlin Wall (90) 2019-11-09
Checkpoint Charlie: The Berlin Wall and the most dangerous place on Earth (89) 2019-11-07
Life as a Soviet Child Refugee in West Germany (88) 2019-11-02
British Forces in Germany: The Lived Experience 1945-2019 (87) 2019-10-30
Growing up on a Soviet base in East Germany (86) 2019-10-25
Childhood at the Hungarian Border with Austria (85) 2019-10-18
Life on a Cold War Polaris Nuclear Missile Submarine (84) 2019-10-11
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