Life on a Cold War Polaris Nuclear Missile Submarine (84)
As a restless and adventurous 18-year-old, Richard Humphreys joined the submarine service in 1985 and went on to serve aboard the nuclear...
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Mark - Eyewitness to the events of 1989 (83)
Mark Baker was a journalist in Vienna who covered Czechoslovakia during the 1980s. In a wide ranging conversations we discuss the events of...
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A Cold War Romance (82)
In 1986 GDR student Antje met a British guy who was installing sewing machines in the hosiery companies in East Germany. Unusually he was...
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Eyewitness to the 1991 Soviet Coup (81)
As a 24-year-old Kieran Williams was in Moscow staying with Soviet friends when the 1991 Moscow Coup occurred.He is a Professor at Drake...
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Cuban Missile Crisis U2 Squadron Commander (80)
Col. William "Greg" Gregory served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and saw extensive combat over North Africa and Europe during World War 2.When...
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Bridget Kendall - BBC Moscow Correspondent 1989 - 1995 (79)
Today we have James taking the helm again with a fascinating chat with Bridget Kendall, the BBC's Moscow correspondent from 1989 to 1995...
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Watching Socialism: The Cold War Television Revolution in Eastern Europe (78)
Today we’re at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles at their Watching Socialism exhibition. Organized in collaboration with British-Slovenian...
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Defending the Cold War Pershing 2 nuclear missile (77)
Phil Logan served in the US Army from 1986-1991. He went through infantry school at Fort Benning, Georgia was sent to Germany and assigned...
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The early days of the Cold War US Space program and origins of GPS (76)
Richard Easton is the co-author of GPS Declassified which examines the development of GPS or Sat Nav as some of us call it now, from its...
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Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe (75)
Today we’re talking to Alison Lewis, a professor in German at the University of Melbourne.She is the author of several books, including one...
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A visit to World War 2 and Cold War airbase RAF Burtonwood (74)
I’m here today at the RAF Burtonwood Heritage Centre, near Warrington in the UK. Based on what was once the largest and longest-running...
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Breaking the news of the 1991 Soviet Coup (73)
We speak today with Alistair Coleman who joined BBC Monitoring as a technician in 1989, just in time for the Berlin Wall. He was on a...
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The Race to Land on the Moon (72)
In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the...
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Stasi Infiltration of the Prenzlauer Berg Underground Literary Scene (71)
In this episode we speak with Dr Alison Lewis is Professor of German in the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of...
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Secret Cold War Dutch submarine missions (70)
During the Cold War, six Dutch submarines secretly gathered intelligence about the Soviet Navy. Only a handful of people outside the Royal...
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A US Soldier defects to Cold War East Germany – Part 2 (69)
We continue the story of Victor Grossman the US Army soldier who defected to East Germany. He tells us of his life in the GDR, his close...
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Nuking the Moon & Other Cold War Intelligence Schemes & Military Plots left on the Drawing Board (68)
We talk with Vince Houghton – Curator of the International Spy Museum who has just written a new book called “Nuking the Moon & Other...
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Janina - Life in a Cold War East German village near the Polish border (67)
Todays episode is different, the interviewer is not me, but one of our listeners who contacted me to help produce content for the podcast....
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Cold War fiction - Liberation Square (66)
Gareth Rubin is an author and journalist and today we’re talking to him about his latest novel, Liberation Square set in a Soviet occupied...
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A tour of Cold War airbase RAF Upper Heyford (65)
In this episode we visit RAF Upper Heyford for a photography tour for Cold War enthusiasts …The episode is in three parts, the first is...
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