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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From Foe to Friend - the British Army in Cold War Germany (163) 2021-02-13
On Her Majesty's Cold War Nuclear Submarine Service (162) 2021-02-06
Advanced English studies in Moscow during the 1970s and 80s (161) 2021-01-30
US Army Intelligence gathering in the unified Germany (160) 2021-01-23
A freedom fighter in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (159) 2021-01-16
Witness to the Eastern Bloc revolutions of the 1980s with Professor Timothy Garton Ash (158) 2021-01-09
Ian Black - Flying the English Electric Lightning (157) 2021-01-02
Sovietisation of Estonia (156) 2020-12-30
Deputy Head of UK Mission in East Berlin - Part 2 (155) 2020-12-26
Deputy Head of UK Mission in East Berlin - Part 1 (154) 2020-12-19
Just another day in Vietnam (153) 2020-12-12
With Solidarity in Gdansk in 1980 (152) 2020-12-05
Sue Boyd - Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in East Berlin (151) 2020-11-28
Cold War Royal Navy submarine missions (150) 2020-11-21
Détente – the chance to end the Cold War (149) 2020-11-14
Guy Burgess and the Cambridge Spy Ring (148) 2020-11-07
A Childhood under the eye of the Secret Police (147) 2020-10-31
Don - Cold War 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fulda (146) 2020-10-23
Navigator aboard the Cold War Vulcan nuclear bomber (145) 2020-10-16
1962 Berlin fiction - author interview (144) 2020-10-13
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