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Ian Sanders · History

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

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58 - Red Reporter - Covert Correspondent for East Germany - Part 2

12 Apr 2019
50m
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A 17 year old in the Cold War US Army (57)

05 Apr 2019
36m
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The Cold War Candy Bomber (56)

30 Mar 2019
30m
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Why Preserve Cold War Communist Architecture? (55)

23 Mar 2019
55m
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Cold War Canadians Hunt For Red October (54)

16 Mar 2019
47m
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Cold War East German Army Officer at the Fall of the Berlin Wall (53)

09 Mar 2019
40m
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László Nagy - A Cold War Hungarian Life (52)

02 Mar 2019
1h 0m
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The Cold War Blood Tattoo (51)

27 Feb 2019
44m
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The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science - Freedom's Laboratory (50)

23 Feb 2019
47m
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An RAF pilot remembers the end of the Cold War (49)

16 Feb 2019
38m
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Gillian - A US Student visits Cold War Poland in 1989 (48)

09 Feb 2019
24m
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Red Reporter - Covert Correspondent for Cold War East Germany - Part 1 (47)

02 Feb 2019
47m
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The Berlin Trilogy - Author Interview (46)

26 Jan 2019
57m
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Cold War East German Army Officer at the 40th Anniversary Parade of East Germany (45)

19 Jan 2019
42m
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Cold War intercepts of Soviet Aircraft with the RAF (44)

12 Jan 2019
45m
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Cold War Conversations highlights of 2018 - a whistle stop tour (43)

05 Jan 2019
40m
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Gillian - A US Student visiting Cold War East Germany (42)

29 Dec 2018
51m
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Defending the Cold War Fulda Gap (41)

22 Dec 2018
46m
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A British Journalist in Cold War East Berlin (40)

15 Dec 2018
1h 12m
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Peter Millar, a former foreign correspondent for Reuters and The Sunday Times, recounts his experiences living and reporting in East Berlin throughout the 1980s. Life behind the Iron Curtain offered a complex reality beyond typical Western narratives, characterized by a stable, if limited, social safety net and a vibra...

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Cold War East German Army Officer Training (39)

08 Dec 2018
43m
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