

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


Red Elvis, Dean Reed the US music star behind the Iron Curtain - Episode 1 (97)

Tales of my Father (96)

Alexander - A Conscript in the Soviet Navy (95)

The Strange World of Cold War Romanian Football (94)

The Berlin Wall - Frederick Taylor (93)

Gillian - A US Student at the opening of the Berlin Wall (92)

Alastair Witnesses the Wende (91)

The Opening of the Berlin Wall (90)

Checkpoint Charlie: The Berlin Wall and the most dangerous place on Earth (89)

Life as a Soviet Child Refugee in West Germany (88)

British Forces in Germany: The Lived Experience 1945-2019 (87)

Growing up on a Soviet base in East Germany (86)

Childhood at the Hungarian Border with Austria (85)

Life on a Cold War Polaris Nuclear Missile Submarine (84)

Mark - Eyewitness to the events of 1989 (83)

A Cold War Romance (82)

Eyewitness to the 1991 Soviet Coup (81)

Cuban Missile Crisis U2 Squadron Commander (80)

Bridget Kendall - BBC Moscow Correspondent 1989 - 1995 (79)
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