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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Behind enemy lines in East Germany with a US Military Liaison Mission driver Part 1 (183) 2021-06-18
Ralph - A prisoner in an East German jail (182) 2021-06-11
Ralph - Arrested and interrogated by the Stasi (181) 2021-06-04
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown that Shaped the Modern World (180) 2021-05-28
Bonus - The state funeral of Josef Stalin (179) 2021-05-25
Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski (178) 2021-05-21
Ralph - DJing and Kung Fu in East Germany (177) 2021-05-14
Irish Army peacekeeping in the Lebanon (176) 2021-05-07
Codename Hero - Soviet double agent Oleg Penkovsky (175) 2021-04-30
Korean war veteran & prisoner of war (174) 2021-04-23
A journalist in apartheid South Africa (173) 2021-04-16
Yuri Gagarin - The first human in space (172) 2021-04-09
Confrontation at the Stößensee (171) 2021-04-02
A 22 year old Briton working in East Germany (170) 2021-03-27
Bonus - Soviet Tours (169) 2021-03-24
Commanding a Cold War Royal Navy Polaris Nuclear Missile Submarine (168) 2021-03-20
Cold War Royal Navy Diesel Submarine officer during the 1960s and 70s (167) 2021-03-13
Jan - Greenham Common Peace Protester (166) 2021-03-06
The China civil war and the independence of Taiwan (165) 2021-02-27
The Happy Traitor - The Life of Soviet Spy George Blake (164) 2021-02-20
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