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 Stasi Poetry Circle (223) 2022-02-19
The start of the Cuban revolution & the launch of Apollo 8 (222) 2022-02-16
Cold War British Army fighting tactics in West Germany (221) 2022-02-12
The West Berlin village surrounded by the Berlin Wall (220) 2022-02-05
Tales of a West German football fan in the Soviet bloc (219) 2022-01-29
Serving on the West German destroyer "Hamburg" (218) 2022-01-22
The CIA director responsible for creating spy devices (217) 2022-01-15
Vietnam War draftee to US Army Rangers (216) 2022-01-08
Helping the Refuseniks (215) 2022-01-01
Eyewitness to the 1991 Soviet Coup with Brett Elliott (214) 2021-12-25
Working in the nuclear missile compartment of a Cold War Royal Navy Polaris submarine (213) 2021-12-18
British Army "stay behinds" the Special OP Troop (212) 2021-12-11
A Cold War childhood in Albania (211) 2021-12-03
The Cold War handshake in the heavens - the Apollo-Soyuz mission (210) 2021-11-27
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev - aspiring actor and poetry fan (209) 2021-11-14
Born into a family of Canadian Communists (208) 2021-11-13
Berlin: Capital of Spies (207) 2021-11-06
How a Soviet conscript became a NATO General (206) 2021-10-29
Terrorism in the Cold War (205) 2021-10-22
Emanuela - a Cold War Romanian Childhood (204) 2021-10-15
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