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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From the Merchant Navy to Covert Hunter Killer Nuclear Submarine Missions (388) 2025-02-15
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Defending Baltic Skies : A Swedish Air Force Pilot's Cold War (386) 2025-02-01
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From Cold War Berlin to Belfast – A Paratrooper’s Story Pt 2 (384) 2025-01-18
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Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries (382) 2025-01-04
The Truth about the Gulf of Tonkin incident that sparked the Vietnam War (381) 2024-12-28
Under Fire: A Journalist's Story of the 1989 Romanian Revolution (380) 2024-12-21
Foes to Friends: Cold War British and East German Tank crew together in conversation (379) 2024-12-14
From Vulcan Bases to Communist Bucharest: A Tale of Cold War Intrigue (378) 2024-12-07
Surveillance and shortages: A British teacher in 1960s Cold War Communist Romania (377) 2024-11-30
Mission Iran: Special Forces Berlin & Operation Eagle Claw, JTF 1-79 (376) 2024-11-23
Den of Spies: The October Surprise - A Covert Cold War Operation (375) 2024-11-16
Surrounded and captured in the Korean War (374) 2024-11-11
Interview with an East German Border Guard (373) 2024-11-09
From Vulcan to Gannet: A Cold War career in the Royal Air Force 2024-11-02
Doorsteps of Hell - a US Marine platoon commander in the Vietnam War (371) 2024-10-25
How the Cold War almost destroyed European Football (370) 2024-10-18
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