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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Philippe - A French soldier in Cold War Berlin (189) 2021-07-23
A Czechoslovak family's escape to Austria (188) 2021-07-16
Drea - A Cold War Czechoslovak childhood (187) 2021-07-09
An evening with Kim Philby (186) 2021-07-06
Behind enemy lines in East Germany with a US Military Liaison Mission driver Part 2 (185) 2021-07-02
Ethel Rosenberg (184) 2021-06-25
Behind enemy lines in East Germany with a US Military Liaison Mission driver Part 1 (183) 2021-06-18
Ralph - A prisoner in an East German jail (182) 2021-06-11
Ralph - Arrested and interrogated by the Stasi (181) 2021-06-04
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown that Shaped the Modern World (180) 2021-05-28
Bonus - The state funeral of Josef Stalin (179) 2021-05-25
Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski (178) 2021-05-21
Ralph - DJing and Kung Fu in East Germany (177) 2021-05-14
Irish Army peacekeeping in the Lebanon (176) 2021-05-07
Codename Hero - Soviet double agent Oleg Penkovsky (175) 2021-04-30
Korean war veteran & prisoner of war (174) 2021-04-23
A journalist in apartheid South Africa (173) 2021-04-16
Yuri Gagarin - The first human in space (172) 2021-04-09
Confrontation at the Stößensee (171) 2021-04-02
A 22 year old Briton working in East Germany (170) 2021-03-27
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