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 kid transferred to a Soviet school (283) 2023-03-25
Cold War US Army tank driver at the Iron Curtain (282) 2023-03-18
Cold War Dutch conscientious objector (281) 2023-03-11
Discovering your Cold War Czechoslovak Secret Police file (280) 2023-03-04
A Cold War escape from Czechoslovakia (279) 2023-02-25
Growing up in the Stasi town (278) 2023-02-18
The most damaging female spy in US history (277) 2023-02-11
The 1989 US Invasion of Panama & the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre (276) 2023-02-08
Missile away, missile away! - A Cold War US Peacekeeper nuclear missile launch officer (275) 2023-02-04
Red Elvis on tour, aka Dean Reed the US Cold War music star (274) 2023-01-28
The Bridge of Spies spy (273) 2023-01-21
Two weddings and a teaching post in Cold War Berlin (272) 2023-01-14
The girl in a Cold War East German coal mine (271) 2023-01-07
In conversation with 7 BRIXMIS veterans - Part 2 (270) 2023-01-04
Able Archer - The military exercise that almost started World War 3 - a look in the archives (269) 2022-12-31
In conversation with 7 BRIXMIS veterans - Part 1 (268) 2022-12-28
Home Bases: Memories & Stories of US Military Bases in the UK (267) 2022-12-24
Cold War Chieftain tank deployment at the East German Border (266) 2022-12-17
Crewing the Cold War Chieftain tank (265) 2022-12-10
How East Germany doped its athletes (264) 2022-12-03
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