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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Pete - a BRIXMIS driver behind enemy lines in East Germany (203) 2021-10-08
MKUltra - the CIA’s mind control project & the mysterious death of Frank Olson (202) 2021-10-01
Flying into nuclear mushroom clouds (201) 2021-09-24
Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 3 (200) 2021-09-17
Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 2 (199) 2021-09-14
Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 1 (198) 2021-09-10
Popular Cold War culture of the 1980s (197) 2021-09-07
Soviet and U.S. Military Liaison Missions & US Counterintelligence SOXMIS & USMLM (196) 2021-09-03
Ron - a veteran of the Korean War & the Malayan Emergency (195) 2021-08-27
The Gouzenko Affair - the start of the Cold War (194) 2021-08-20
Flying the F-111 nuclear bomber (193) 2021-08-13
The forgotten cosmonaut (192) 2021-08-10
A workers view of Poland from Łódź in 1986 (191) 2021-08-06
Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin (190) 2021-07-30
Philippe - A French soldier in Cold War Berlin (189) 2021-07-23
A Czechoslovak family's escape to Austria (188) 2021-07-16
Drea - A Cold War Czechoslovak childhood (187) 2021-07-09
An evening with Kim Philby (186) 2021-07-06
Behind enemy lines in East Germany with a US Military Liaison Mission driver Part 2 (185) 2021-07-02
Ethel Rosenberg (184) 2021-06-25
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