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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Gary Powers & the 1960 U2 Incident 2018-08-18
The Trabant car - East German icon (22) 2018-08-11
BRIXMIS, the defence of Cold War Berlin & Rudolf Hess (21) 2018-08-06
Anke - Life as an East German teenager (20) 2018-07-29
19 - Able Archer and the Cold War nuclear war scare of 1983 2018-07-21
RAF Greenham Common - A history of the iconic Cold War British nuclear base.(18) 2018-07-14
Eyewitness to the Prague Spring 2018-07-07
Mark - A US Combat Engineer in Cold War West Germany (16) 2018-06-30
15 - Sabine - An East German Childhood 2018-06-23
14 - The Prague Spring 2018-06-16
A US soldier at Checkpoint Charlie when the Berlin Wall opened (13) 2018-06-09
12 - My Stasi file is as thick as a phone book 2018-06-02
Observing Cold War Armageddon (11) 2018-05-26
1960s Road Trip Across the Soviet Union (10) 2018-05-18
Cloak & Dagger in Cold War Prague (9) 2018-05-12
8 - Warsaw Pact Armoured Fighting Vehicles 2018-05-07
7 - Interview with Stasi Child author - David Young 2018-05-05
The 1953 Cold War East German Uprising with Dr Richard Millington (6) 2018-04-28
5 - Espionage, East Germany and Berlin with Spybrary host Shane Whaley - Part 2 2018-04-20
Espionage, East Germany and Berlin with Spybrary host Shane Whaley - Part 1 (4) 2018-04-18
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