

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


A 98 Year Old USAF Veteran Remembers the Berlin AIrlift (417)

The Atomic Bombing of Japan - The First Shots of the Cold War? (416)

Berlin: A Spy’s Guide to its Cold War History (415)

With the US 1st Armored Division in Cold War West Germany (414)

Cold War Short Stories Ep 1 (413)

Korea: War Without End (412)

The Night a Nuclear Missile Accidentally Exploded: A Firsthand Account of Survival (411)

The Cold War Origins of the War in Ukraine (410)

The End of East Germany: A Communist Family’s Journey Through Change (409)

The Spy in the KGB Archive (408)

Memories of an East German Naval Officer's Family (407)

Gorbachev - The Man Who Ended An Empire (406)

Policing the Berlin Wall with the Royal Military Police (405)

"The aircraft exploded and the cockpit filled with fire" - Korean skies to the brutal Vietnam War (404)

Childhood Memories of the 1989 Romanian Revolution (403)

“Sir, I’m not going to start World War Three for you” - The NATO Russian confrontation in 1999 at Pristina Airport (402)

“Houston, we’ve had a problem” interview with Fred Haise, Apollo 13 astronaut (401)

Doped, Abused and Abandoned: Growing Up in East Germany’s Sports System (400)

Whispers of Freedom: Portraying the Story of the last person shot at the Berlin Wall (399)
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