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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Cold War Conversations highlights of 2018 - a whistle stop tour (43) 2019-01-05
Gillian - A US Student visiting Cold War East Germany (42) 2018-12-29
Defending the Cold War Fulda Gap (41) 2018-12-22
A British Journalist in Cold War East Berlin (40) 2018-12-15
Cold War East German Army Officer Training (39) 2018-12-08
Training to be a Cold War US Army Tank Commander (38) 2018-12-01
Antje - The Girl Behind The Berlin Wall (37) 2018-11-24
Life in Cold War East Germany Photography Exhibition (36) 2018-11-18
The man who owns a Cold War Soviet submarine (35) 2018-11-10
Samy - Life as a West Berliner in Cold War Berlin (34) 2018-11-03
Eileen - A British teacher living & working in Cold War East Berlin 2018-10-26
Eileen - A British student living in Cold War East Germany (32) 2018-10-20
The Korean War in Britain (31) 2018-10-12
Leaving your family to go off to a nuclear war (30) 2018-10-06
Cold War Living History Event - The Soviet Threat (29) 2018-09-29
Cold War USAF pilot Buz Carpenter talks Vietnam recon, Skunkworks and more 2018-09-21
Flying the Cold War Blackbird SR71 Spyplane (27) 2018-09-15
My father was the leader of the Soviet Union - Part 2 (26) 2018-09-07
My father was the leader of the Soviet Union - Part 1 (25) 2018-09-02
Cold War West German Nuclear Monitoring System (24) 2018-08-25
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