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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Checkpoint Charlie: The Berlin Wall and the most dangerous place on Earth (89) 2019-11-07
Life as a Soviet Child Refugee in West Germany (88) 2019-11-02
British Forces in Germany: The Lived Experience 1945-2019 (87) 2019-10-30
Growing up on a Soviet base in East Germany (86) 2019-10-25
Childhood at the Hungarian Border with Austria (85) 2019-10-18
Life on a Cold War Polaris Nuclear Missile Submarine (84) 2019-10-11
Mark - Eyewitness to the events of 1989 (83) 2019-10-04
A Cold War Romance (82) 2019-09-27
Eyewitness to the 1991 Soviet Coup (81) 2019-09-20
Cuban Missile Crisis U2 Squadron Commander (80) 2019-09-13
Bridget Kendall - BBC Moscow Correspondent 1989 - 1995 (79) 2019-09-06
Watching Socialism: The Cold War Television Revolution in Eastern Europe (78) 2019-08-30
Defending the Cold War Pershing 2 nuclear missile (77) 2019-08-23
The early days of the Cold War US Space program and origins of GPS (76) 2019-08-16
Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe (75) 2019-08-09
A visit to World War 2 and Cold War airbase RAF Burtonwood (74) 2019-08-02
Breaking the news of the 1991 Soviet Coup (73) 2019-07-26
Chasing the Moon - The Apollo 11 Moon Landing (72) 2019-07-19
Stasi Infiltration of the Prenzlauer Berg Underground Literary Scene (71) 2019-07-12
Secret Cold War Dutch submarine missions (70) 2019-07-05
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