

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


Arrested by the KGB and taken to the Lubyanka prison (237)

The first female CIA officer in Cold War Moscow (236)

The 1989 World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang, North Korea (235)

Britain’s Cold War Human Chemical Warfare Experiments (234)

Flying for the CIA's Air America in South East Asia (233)

A photojournalist in Cold War Eastern Europe (232)

Escaping from Cold War Romania (231)

A Hungarian childhood in Cold War Romania (230)

The shooting down of KAL007, the Able Archer exercise and the nuclear war scare of 1983 (229)

Charlotte Philby talks about her grandfather Soviet spy Kim Philby & her book "Edith & Kim" (228)

The first woman to graduate from French Commando school (227)

Betrayed by comrades (226)

My father, the KGB spy (225)

"Three, Two, one, detonation..." a Royal Navy nuclear test veteran remembers (224)

The Stasi Poetry Circle (223)

The start of the Cuban revolution & the launch of Apollo 8 (222)

Cold War British Army fighting tactics in West Germany (221)

The West Berlin village surrounded by the Berlin Wall (220)

Tales of a West German football fan in the Soviet bloc (219)
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