

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


Antje - The Girl Behind The Berlin Wall (37)

Life in Cold War East Germany Photography Exhibition (36)

The man who owns a Cold War Soviet submarine (35)

Samy - Life as a West Berliner in Cold War Berlin (34)

Eileen - A British teacher living & working in Cold War East Berlin

Eileen - A British student living in Cold War East Germany (32)

The Korean War in Britain (31)

Leaving your family to go off to a nuclear war (30)

Cold War Living History Event - The Soviet Threat (29)

Cold War USAF pilot Buz Carpenter talks Vietnam recon, Skunkworks and more

Flying the Cold War Blackbird SR71 Spyplane (27)

My father was the leader of the Soviet Union - Part 2 (26)

My father was the leader of the Soviet Union - Part 1 (25)

Cold War West German Nuclear Monitoring System (24)

Gary Powers & the 1960 U2 Incident

The Trabant car - East German icon (22)

BRIXMIS, the defence of Cold War Berlin & Rudolf Hess (21)

Anke - Life as an East German teenager (20)

19 - Able Archer and the Cold War nuclear war scare of 1983
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