

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 Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War (117)

Boarding Soviet Ships with the Cold War Danish Navy (116)

Taking A Holiday in Cold War Albania (115)

Life as a British Soldier in Cold War West Berlin (114)

Railway Encounters in Cold War Eastern Europe (113)

Nuclear War in Cold War Britain (112)

Serving in the Cold War British Army Intelligence Corps during the 1960s & 70s (111)

Bonus - Dr Strangelove Film Screening in a Nuclear Bunker (110)

Stasi Infiltration of the Cold War East German Church (109)

The Regimes Museum (108)

Assigned to a Cold War Government Nuclear Bunker (107)

The First Western Pilot to Fly the Cold War Soviet MIG 29 Fighter (106)

Children of the Cold War Bulgarian Silent Revolution (105)

The Cold War Berlin spy tunnel - Operation Gold (103)

A British Communist Working in Cold War East Germany (104)

Working with high security clearance in the Cold War US Navy (102)

Interview with Ian Sanders the host and producer of Cold War Conversations (101)

Manuel - Experiences of the Reforger 82 NATO Exercise (100)

A Cold War Mystery - Death in Ice Valley (99)
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