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 shooting down of KAL007, the Able Archer exercise and the nuclear war scare of 1983 (229) 2022-04-01
Charlotte Philby talks about her grandfather Soviet spy Kim Philby & her book "Edith & Kim" (228) 2022-03-26
The first woman to graduate from French Commando school (227) 2022-03-19
Betrayed by comrades (226) 2022-03-12
My father, the KGB spy (225) 2022-03-05
"Three, Two, one, detonation..." a Royal Navy nuclear test veteran remembers (224) 2022-02-26
The Stasi Poetry Circle (223) 2022-02-19
The start of the Cuban revolution & the launch of Apollo 8 (222) 2022-02-16
Cold War British Army fighting tactics in West Germany (221) 2022-02-12
The West Berlin village surrounded by the Berlin Wall (220) 2022-02-05
Tales of a West German football fan in the Soviet bloc (219) 2022-01-29
Serving on the West German destroyer "Hamburg" (218) 2022-01-22
The CIA director responsible for creating spy devices (217) 2022-01-15
Vietnam War draftee to US Army Rangers (216) 2022-01-08
Helping the Refuseniks (215) 2022-01-01
Eyewitness to the 1991 Soviet Coup with Brett Elliott (214) 2021-12-25
Working in the nuclear missile compartment of a Cold War Royal Navy Polaris submarine (213) 2021-12-18
British Army "stay behinds" the Special OP Troop (212) 2021-12-11
A Cold War childhood in Albania (211) 2021-12-03
The Cold War handshake in the heavens - the Apollo-Soyuz mission (210) 2021-11-27
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