Experience the Cold War like never before with Cold War Conversations — an award-winning podcast recommended by The New York Times. Each week, host Ian Sanders brings you raw, firsthand accounts from the people who lived through one of history’s most tense and transformative eras — soldiers, spies, civilians, and more. These aren’t stories from textbooks. They’re unfiltered voices from the frontlines of history — emotional, gripping, and deeply human. This is Cold War history, told from the inside out. We cover subjects such as spies, spying, the Iron Curtain, nuclear weapons, warfare, tanks, jet aircraft, fighters, bombers, transport aircraft, aviation, culture, and politics. We also cover personalities such as Fidel Castro, JFK, Ronald Reagan, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Konstantin Chernenko, Margaret Thatcher, John F. Kennedy, Josef Stalin, Richard Nixon, Lech Walesa, General Jaruzelski, Nicolae Ceaușescu. Other subjects include Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, West Berlin, East Berlin, Cuban missile Crisis, Berlin Airlift, Bay of Pigs, SALT, Perestroika, Space Race, superpower, USSR, Soviet Union, DDR, GDR, East Germany, SDI, Vietnam War, Korean War, Solidarność, Fall of the Wall, Berliner Mauer, Trabant, Communist, Capitalist, Able Archer, KGB, Stasi, STB, SB, Securitate, CIA, NSA, MI5, MI6, Berlin Wall, escape, defection, Cuba, Albania, football, sport, Bulgaria, Soviet Union, Poland, China, Taiwan, Austria, West Germany, Solidarity, espionage, HUMINT, SIGINT, OSINT, IMINT, GEOINT, RAF, USAF, British Army, US Army, Red Army, Soviet Army, Afghanistan, NVA, East German Army, KAL007, T-72, T-64, Chieftain, M60 The podcast is for military veterans, school teachers, university lecturers, students and those interested in Cold War history, museums, bunkers, weapons, AFVs, wargamers, planes, A Level, GCSE students studying Superpower Relations and the Cold War.

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The End of East Germany: A Communist Family’s Journey Through Change (409) 2025-06-27
The Spy in the KGB Archive (408) 2025-06-20
Memories of an East German Naval Officer's Family (407) 2025-06-13
Gorbachev - The Man Who Ended An Empire (406) 2025-06-06
Policing the Berlin Wall with the Royal Military Police (405) 2025-05-30
"The aircraft exploded and the cockpit filled with fire" - Korean skies to the brutal Vietnam War (404) 2025-05-23
Childhood Memories of the 1989 Romanian Revolution (403) 2025-05-16
“Sir, I’m not going to start World War Three for you” - The NATO Russian confrontation in 1999 at Pristina Airport (402) 2025-05-09
“Houston, we’ve had a problem” interview with Fred Haise, Apollo 13 astronaut (401) 2025-05-02
Doped, Abused and Abandoned: Growing Up in East Germany’s Sports System (400) 2025-04-25
Whispers of Freedom: Portraying the Story of the last person shot at the Berlin Wall (399) 2025-04-22
Submerged: Life on a Fast Attack Submarine in the Last Days of the Cold War (398) 2025-04-18
Deep Cover Cold War Spies: How Russia’s Illegal Agents Penetrated the West (397) 2025-04-11
A Black US Basketball Virtuoso in Cold War Poland (396) 2025-04-04
Agent Zo - From War Hero to Enemy: When Cold War Poland Turned on Its Own (395) 2025-03-29
In Conversation with Margot Honecker (394) 2025-03-26
The Cuban Missile Crisis Suicide Missions (393) 2025-03-22
Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Chess Grandmaster (392) 2025-03-15
The Keys to Armageddon: A Cold War Nuclear Missile Officer's Story (391) 2025-03-08
The Secret History of Britain's Cold War Nuclear Experiments (390) 2025-03-01
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