

Cold War Conversations
"Listening to even one episode of "Cold War Conversations" will make this sprawling, potentially intimidating period of history feel vivid and compelling." The New York Times Experience the Cold War like never before with Cold War Conversations — an award-winning podcast. 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.
Episodes


The most damaging female spy in US history (277)

The 1989 US Invasion of Panama & the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre (276)

Missile away, missile away! - A Cold War US Peacekeeper nuclear missile launch officer (275)

Red Elvis on tour, aka Dean Reed the US Cold War music star (274)

The Bridge of Spies spy (273)

Two weddings and a teaching post in Cold War Berlin (272)

The girl in a Cold War East German coal mine (271)

In conversation with 7 BRIXMIS veterans - Part 2 (270)

Able Archer - The military exercise that almost started World War 3 - a look in the archives (269)

In conversation with 7 BRIXMIS veterans - Part 1 (268)

Home Bases: Memories & Stories of US Military Bases in the UK (267)

Cold War Chieftain tank deployment at the East German Border (266)

Crewing the Cold War Chieftain tank (265)

How East Germany doped its athletes (264)

The building of the Berlin Wall (263)

Guarding Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy Führer (262)

From Cold War military drone development, to the deployment and command of the nuclear armed Ground Launched Cruise Missiles (GLCM) in Europe (261)

Nuclear missile launch control and Mission Control for the NASA Apollo Moon Missions (260)

Britain's 1980s Cold War Dads Army/Home Guard - The Home Service Force
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