The Challenges of a Christian East German Childhood (344)
Tilo offers an engaging and personal account of growing up in East Berlin before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He begins by describing his...
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Commanding a Cold War US Navy Nuclear Missile Submarine (343)
Bill Woodman is a former US Navy nuclear missile submarine commander, who shares his rich experiences from joining the US Naval Academy in...
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My friend the Bridge of Spies spy - Part 2 (342)
Burt recounts the surreal experience of learning about Fisher's true identity from a newspaper headline, the subsequent FBI interrogations,...
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My friend the Bridge of Spies spy - Part 1 (341)
In a riveting episode that peels back the layers of Cold War espionage, we sit down with Burt, an artist who unwittingly befriended a man...
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A Diver Sapper in the Cold War Soviet Navy (340)
Valeriy was a Soviet Navy diver sapper and was born and raised in Kyiv, Ukraine. I have used a human translator for this episode so the...
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Gymnastics and Pills: An East German Childhood (339)
Sirka offers a comprehensive exploration of life in East Germany, detailing the experiences of growing up in Neubrandenburg, the influence...
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The Soviet Afghan War (338)
The Soviet-Afghan War lasted ten years between 1979-1989 and led to the deaths of between 500k and 2m Afghan civilians. I speak with Nick...
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Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War on Netflix Podcast (337)
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War, is a nine-part documentary series from director Brian Knappenberger, that provides a...
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Sex, spies and scandal : the John Vassall affair (336)
Alex Grant’s new book Sex, Spies and Scandal The John Vassall Affair has everything: a honey trap, industrial-scale espionage, journalists...
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V-Bombers: Britain's Nuclear Frontline in the Cold War (335)
V-Bombers: Britain's Nuclear Frontline in the Cold War is a new book by Dr Tony Redding that takes a deep dive into Britain's V-bomber...
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On the Streets of Cold War Estonia fighting for Independence (334)
Timo takes us on a journey through the tumultuous events of the 1991 Soviet coup attempt, as experienced from the streets of the Baltic...
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Borderlands and Battles: A Finnish Town's Cold War Story (333)
Timo takes us to the remote Finnish border town of Kuusamo. He paints a vivid picture of a childhood overshadowed by his grandparent’s...
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Australian Cold War Maritime Air Patrols (332)
Leigh joined the RAAF in 1978 to train as a pilot but was scrubbed after a few months and transitioned to training as an Air Electronics...
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A traumatic childhood journey from Cold War Poland to the United States (331)
In this deeply personal episode, our guest, Norbert, vividly recounts his traumatic childhood journey from Cold War Poland to the United...
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Planning for a Hot War in the Cold War (330)
Dan served in the War Plans office of the US Army VII Corps working on counterattack plans and reorganization of the US Army’s General...
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The Picnic That Ripped Open The Iron Curtain (329)
In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable: they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and...
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US Army Anti-Aircraft Missile Battery Command in Cold War West Germany (228)
Dan served as a lieutenant and captain in a US Army air defence artillery battalion in West Germany from 1980 until 1985. He describes...
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Britain's first Cold War Nuclear Attack Warning Station at Jodrell Bank (327)
The Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire in the UK played a significant secret role during the Cold War. It was established in 1945 by...
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The East German Tank Commander (326)
In the mid-1980s Dag was a T72 tank commander in the NVA, the East German Army and is now a volunteer at the Tank Museum at Bovington inthe...
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Twilight of the Soviet Union – Memoirs of a British Journalist in Moscow (325)
Kate is sent to Moscow in 1985 to write articles for The Morning Star, a left-wing British daily newspaper founded in 1930 as the Daily...
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