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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Bonus - Soviet Tours (169) 2021-03-24
Commanding a Cold War Royal Navy Polaris Nuclear Missile Submarine (168) 2021-03-20
Cold War Royal Navy Diesel Submarine officer during the 1960s and 70s (167) 2021-03-13
Jan - Greenham Common Peace Protester (166) 2021-03-06
The China civil war and the independence of Taiwan (165) 2021-02-27
The Happy Traitor - The Life of Soviet Spy George Blake (164) 2021-02-20
From Foe to Friend - the British Army in Cold War Germany (163) 2021-02-13
On Her Majesty's Cold War Nuclear Submarine Service (162) 2021-02-06
Advanced English studies in Moscow during the 1970s and 80s (161) 2021-01-30
US Army Intelligence gathering in the unified Germany (160) 2021-01-23
A freedom fighter in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (159) 2021-01-16
Witness to the Eastern Bloc revolutions of the 1980s with Professor Timothy Garton Ash (158) 2021-01-09
Ian Black - Flying the English Electric Lightning (157) 2021-01-02
Sovietisation of Estonia (156) 2020-12-30
Deputy Head of UK Mission in East Berlin - Part 2 (155) 2020-12-26
Deputy Head of UK Mission in East Berlin - Part 1 (154) 2020-12-19
Just another day in Vietnam (153) 2020-12-12
With Solidarity in Gdansk in 1980 (152) 2020-12-05
Sue Boyd - Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in East Berlin (151) 2020-11-28
Cold War Royal Navy submarine missions (150) 2020-11-21
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