Flying the Cold War CF-104 Starfighter over Germany (63)
Laurie Hawn is a retired Canadian Member of Parliament and former career fighter pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Laurie tells the...
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Disarming Doomsday - The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima (62)
In this episode we speak with Dr Becky-Alexis Martin who is a lecturer in Cultural and Political Geography at Manchester Metropolitan...
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A Cold War US Soldier defects to East Germany (61)
What could make a privileged 24-year-old American serving in the US Army in Germany in 1952 to swim across the Danube River to what was...
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Working at the British Embassy in Cold War Bucharest (60)
In this episode we speak with Colin Munro who has had an extensive career with the British Diplomatic Service. Today we speak about his...
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A 1980s trip on the Trans Siberian Railway (59)
In this episode we speak with Mark Wiegers who travelled on the Trans-Siberian Railway in the late 1980s. His story tells of trouble with...
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58 - Red Reporter - Covert Correspondent for East Germany - Part 2
In this episode, we welcome back John Green to talk further about his covert journalism for East Germany. His story continues with his...
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A 17 year old in the Cold War US Army (57)
Today we speak to Manuel Alzaga who as a 17 year old joined the US Army in 1981.Manuel signed up to the artillery and tells his story from...
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The Cold War Candy Bomber (56)
We speak to 98 year old Gail Halvorsen aka "The Candy Bomber" who flew in the Berlin Airlift in 1948.The Soviets had started a 11-month...
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Why Preserve Cold War Communist Architecture? (55)
We welcome back Mark Baker from episode 9 where we spoke about his time in 1980s Czechoslovakia. Mark is a freelance journalist & travel...
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Cold War Canadians Hunt For Red October (54)
Colonel Terry Chester spent a good portion of his RCAF career hunting for Soviet Submarines in both the Pacific and Atlantic area's of...
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Cold War East German Army Officer at the Fall of the Berlin Wall (53)
In this episode we hear the third and final part of Torsten Belger’s story as he tells us about his first visit to West Berlin, leaving the...
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László Nagy - A Cold War Hungarian Life (52)
László Nagy was one of the early members of the Hungarian Democratic Forum in 1987. The HDF became Hungary’s largest political party...
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The Cold War Blood Tattoo (51)
In 1951, a small pilot program was launched in Indiana and Utah as a civilian defense measure to aid in the aftermath of a nuclear...
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The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science - Freedom's Laboratory (50)
Audra J Wolfe is writer, editor, and historian based in Philadelphia. With a background in both science and history her work specifically...
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An RAF pilot remembers the end of the Cold War (49)
In this episode we welcome back Nick Anderson who told us about his RAF service intercepting TU-95 Soviet Bear bombers over the North Sea....
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Gillian - A US Student visits Cold War Poland in 1989 (48)
In this episode we welcome back Gillian Cox who told us about her student trip to East Germany in 1989. In this episode the story continues...
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Red Reporter - Covert Correspondent for Cold War East Germany - Part 1 (47)
Today we speak to John Green.John Green grew up in Coventry in a communist family. After abandoning a zoology degree course after his...
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The Berlin Trilogy - Author Interview (46)
Today we welcome author Paul Grant whose excellent Berlin trilogy is set in Berlin during World War 2 and the Cold War.Paul and I talk...
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Cold War East German Army Officer at the 40th Anniversary Parade of East Germany (45)
In this episode, we welcome back Torsten Belger a former East German Officer.You can listen to other episodes with Torsten here...
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Cold War intercepts of Soviet Aircraft with the RAF (44)
Nick Anderson is a former RAF Phantom jet fighter pilot. We discuss flying in the Cold War and in detail how the RAF would have responded...
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