Cold War Conversations highlights of 2018 - a whistle stop tour (43)
Welcome to the Cold War Conversations History Podcast 2018 roundup and thank you to all our listeners and guests who’ve stuck with us and...
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Gillian - A US Student visiting Cold War East Germany (42)
Gillian Cox visited the GDR as a student in October 1989 just before the Wall came down.In this episode you will hear her eyewitness of...
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Defending the Cold War Fulda Gap (41)
Today we talk again with Neil Gussman who was an M60A1 tank commander in West Germany tasked with defending the Fulda Gap which was a key...
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A British Journalist in Cold War East Berlin (40)
Shane Whaley from the GDR Radio Podcast and Spybrary podcast and I speak with Peter Millar. Peter is an award-winning journalist who was...
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Cold War East German Army Officer Training (39)
We speak with Torsten Belger who trained as an Artillery Officer in the East German Army. Torsten also runs Germandotmilitaria which is a...
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Training to be a Cold War US Army Tank Commander (38)
Today we’re talking to Neil Gussman who trained on the M60A1 tank in the 1970s. This was the standard main battle tank of the US Army from...
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Antje - The Girl Behind The Berlin Wall (37)
Today we're talking to Antje Arnold, author of “The Girl Behind The Wall” which tells the story of a girl growing up in East Germany in the...
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Life in Cold War East Germany Photography Exhibition (36)
Today we visit the Totally East: Life in East Germany Photography Exhibition.Run-down façades, punks and ordinary workers: This exhibition...
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The man who owns a Cold War Soviet submarine (35)
We talk with John Sutton who owns a Foxtrot class Soviet Submarine moored in the middle of the River Medway in Kent.This may seem an...
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Samy - Life as a West Berliner in Cold War Berlin (34)
Today we talk with Samy who as a native West Berliner describes growing up in the city during the 1970s and 80s.He describes in detail the...
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Eileen - A British teacher living & working in Cold War East Berlin
Eileen shares some great information with us of working & living in East Berlin, with some surprising details. She also generously reveals...
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Eileen - A British student living in Cold War East Germany (32)
Today we speak with Eileen Ford-Price who was British student in the GDR in the 1980s in Rostock.Before we start I’d like to thank all our...
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The Korean War in Britain (31)
We speak with Doctor Grace Huxford, author of the Korean War in Britain – Citizenship, Selfhood and Forgetting. The Korean War was known as...
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Leaving your family to go off to a nuclear war (30)
Dave Arnold was the Chief Observer at a Royal Observer Corps nuclear monitoring post.I made a fascinating visit with Dave to the Rushton...
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Cold War Living History Event - The Soviet Threat (29)
This episode takes place at a Living History event in and around the Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker museum in deepest Cheshire in the UK....
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Cold War USAF pilot Buz Carpenter talks Vietnam recon, Skunkworks and more
USAF pilot Buz Carpenter talks about about flying reconnaissance over Vietnam, the Skunkworks where secret USAF projects were developed,...
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Flying the Cold War Blackbird SR71 Spyplane (27)
Today we are talking about the SR71 Blackbird spy plane. Only 32 Blackbirds were ever made, and they were in service from 1964-1998. The...
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My father was the leader of the Soviet Union - Part 2 (26)
This is part 2 of my conversation with Professor Sergei Khrushchev the son of Nikita Khrushchev who led the Soviet Union 1953 to...
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My father was the leader of the Soviet Union - Part 1 (25)
In part 1 of this interview we talk about Professor Khrushchev’s early years, his relationship with his father, his father’s rise to power,...
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Cold War West German Nuclear Monitoring System (24)
West Germany had a number of Nuclear Warning Bunkers dotted around the country similar to the Royal Observer Corps in the UK.Mirko Krumm...
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