

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


Defending the Cold War Pershing 2 nuclear missile (77)

The early days of the Cold War US Space program and origins of GPS (76)

Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe (75)

A visit to World War 2 and Cold War airbase RAF Burtonwood (74)

Breaking the news of the 1991 Soviet Coup (73)

Chasing the Moon - The Apollo 11 Moon Landing (72)

Stasi Infiltration of the Prenzlauer Berg Underground Literary Scene (71)

Secret Cold War Dutch submarine missions (70)

A US Soldier defects to Cold War East Germany – Part 2 (69)

Nuking the Moon & Other Cold War Intelligence Schemes & Military Plots left on the Drawing Board (68)

Janina - Life in a Cold War East German village near the Polish border (67)

Cold War fiction - Liberation Square (66)

A tour of Cold War airbase RAF Upper Heyford (65)

Arrested by the Stasi on an East Berlin day trip (64)

Flying the Cold War CF-104 Starfighter over Germany (63)

Disarming Doomsday - The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima (62)

A Cold War US Soldier defects to East Germany (61)

Working at the British Embassy in Cold War Bucharest (60)

A 1980s trip on the Trans Siberian Railway (59)
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