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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The building of the Berlin Wall (263) 2022-11-26
Guarding Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy Führer (262) 2022-11-19
From Cold War military drone development, to the deployment and command of the nuclear armed Ground Launched Cruise Missiles (GLCM) in Europe (261) 2022-11-12
Nuclear missile launch control and Mission Control for the NASA Apollo Moon Missions (260) 2022-11-05
Britain's 1980s Cold War Dads Army/Home Guard - The Home Service Force 2022-10-28
An aircraft hijack to escape from the Soviet Union (258) 2022-10-21
Defending RAF Gatow - Britain's airbase in Cold War Berlin (257) 2022-10-14
Guarding Britain's nuclear weapons and RAF Akrotiri during the Cold War (256) 2022-10-07
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis with Sir Max Hastings (255) 2022-09-30
“Houston, we’ve had a problem” interview with Fred Haise, Apollo 13 astronaut (254) 2022-09-23
An 18 year old US Military Policeman in Cold War West Berlin (253) 2022-09-16
A trip across Central Europe on a East German MZ motorbike (252) 2022-09-09
Imprisoned in a Soviet Military gaol - a BRIXMIS officer's diary Pt 2 (251) 2022-09-02
Arrested 11 times, plus 3 shooting incidents - a BRIXMIS officer's diary Pt 1 (250) 2022-08-26
Life in the forbidden zone at the East/West German border (249) 2022-08-19
The girl at the edge of the World - an East German childhood at the West German Border (248) 2022-08-12
A daughter's 18 year search for her Cold War CIA pilot father at the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba (247) 2022-08-05
British Army Air Corps helicopter co-pilot in Cold War Germany (246) 2022-07-29
A boy soldier in the Cold War Royal Engineers (245) 2022-07-22
A Mormon missionary in Cold War East Germany (244) 2022-07-14
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