Cold War Britain & The Bomb (124)
In Britain and the Bomb Bill Nuttall considers Britain's national journey from Empire to Europe and the transition of British nuclear...
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A UK Journalist in the Soviet Union & GDR (123)
Mark Brayne studied in Moscow 71-72, travelling the country with fellow UK students and spending silly amounts of time in the bathhouses...
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A 23 year old Cold War nuclear missile commander (122)
Scott was a Pershing 2 nuclear missile Fire Control Officer which meant he was responsible for the launch of the missile. Aged 23 he was...
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The Last Days of Cold War East Germany (121)
Michael Paterson first visited East Germany just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and provides a vivid account of its subsequent decline...
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Special Forces Berlin - Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990 (120)
James Stejskal served for 23 years with US Special Forces, including two tours in Berlin. Special Forces Berlin was a small detachment of...
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Alan - Working in the GDR and the Soviet Union (119)
Alan Baker worked and studied in the GDR and the USSR from the 1970s through to the end of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the...
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Cold War Warsaw Bureau Chief for Time Magazine 1981-83 (118)
Richard Hornik was the Warsaw Bureau Chief for Time Magazine from 1981-1983. He carried out numerous interviews with Solidarity Free Trade...
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The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War (117)
The Cold War got colder in the early 1980s and the relationship between the two military superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, each of...
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Boarding Soviet Ships with the Cold War Danish Navy (116)
Lieutenant Commander Jørgen Brandsborg joined the Danish Navy in the 1980s. He met the Soviets up close and personal while serving in the...
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Taking A Holiday in Cold War Albania (115)
In early 1989 attention being paid to Albania in England by the English media because the England football team had recently travelled to...
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Life as a British Soldier in Cold War West Berlin (114)
Anthony enlisted in the British Army in 1987 and after 9 months he was posted to West Berlin.He tells the story of life as a Private in...
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Railway Encounters in Cold War Eastern Europe (113)
Charlie Flowers was 18 in 1988. He travelled by train across a divided Eastern Europe that was starting to show signs of the changes that...
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Nuclear War in Cold War Britain (112)
For almost five decades, the United Kingdom made plans for a nuclear attack that never came. To help their citizens, civil servants and...
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Serving in the Cold War British Army Intelligence Corps during the 1960s & 70s (111)
Harry served as a soldier in the Intelligence Corps in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s.His role was that of an Intelligence and Security...
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Bonus - Dr Strangelove Film Screening in a Nuclear Bunker (110)
Today is a short bonus episode I recorded at the weekend while at a film showing of Dr Strangelove in a former UK Regional Seat of...
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Stasi Infiltration of the Cold War East German Church (109)
When the Berlin Wall came down, the files of the East German secret police, the much-dreaded Stasi, were opened and read. And among the...
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The Regimes Museum (108)
Our guest today is Marc Voss the Founder and Executive Director of The Regimes Museum which is the culmination of an effort to collect,...
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Assigned to a Cold War Government Nuclear Bunker (107)
Regional seats of government or RSGs were a UK solution to disperse the machinery of government into the provinces, where there would be a...
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The First Western Pilot to Fly the Cold War Soviet MIG 29 Fighter (106)
What was it like to be the first western pilot to fly the most advanced Soviet fighter aircraft? At the 1989 Abbotsford Air Show, during...
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Children of the Cold War Bulgarian Silent Revolution (105)
What are your dreams at 18 and what happens in the next 20 years? Children of the Silent Revolution is a documentary film following a...
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