

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


Ralph - DJing and Kung Fu in East Germany (177)

Irish Army peacekeeping in the Lebanon (176)

Codename Hero - Soviet double agent Oleg Penkovsky (175)

Korean war veteran & prisoner of war (174)

A journalist in apartheid South Africa (173)

Yuri Gagarin - The first human in space (172)

Confrontation at the Stößensee (171)

A 22 year old Briton working in East Germany (170)

Bonus - Soviet Tours (169)

Commanding a Cold War Royal Navy Polaris Nuclear Missile Submarine (168)

Cold War Royal Navy Diesel Submarine officer during the 1960s and 70s (167)

Jan - Greenham Common Peace Protester (166)

The China civil war and the independence of Taiwan (165)

The Happy Traitor - The Life of Soviet Spy George Blake (164)

From Foe to Friend - the British Army in Cold War Germany (163)

On Her Majesty's Cold War Nuclear Submarine Service (162)

Advanced English studies in Moscow during the 1970s and 80s (161)

US Army Intelligence gathering in the unified Germany (160)

A freedom fighter in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (159)
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