

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


Reporting on the 1989 Revolution in Romania and the Czechoslovak Velvet Revolution (357)

Mafia Spies and the CIA Plot to Kill Fidel Castro (356)

Teaching English in East Germany (355)

Cold War Nuclear Bombing Missions and a UFO Encounter (354)

Cheltenham Schoolboy to Cold War Canberra Jet Pilot (353)

A Cold War Hungarian Journey Through War, Revolution, and Emigration (352)

Mutiny in the East German Army (351)

Face to face with the Soviets at the Cold War Reykjavik Summit between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev (350)

The President’s Kill List - Assassination and US Foreign Policy since 1945 (349)

The sinking of the USS Scorpion and the Velvet Revolution (348)

A US Diplomat's Son in Cold War Soviet Union, Nicaragua and Cuba (347)

East German Army Bullying, Serving in a Brigade HQ and Military Exercises (346)

America's Cold War Scottish Bastion (345)

The Challenges of a Christian East German Childhood (344)

Commanding a Cold War US Navy Nuclear Missile Submarine (343)

My friend the Bridge of Spies spy - Part 2 (342)

My friend the Bridge of Spies spy - Part 1 (341)

A Diver Sapper in the Cold War Soviet Navy (340)

Gymnastics and Pills: An East German Childhood (339)
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