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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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The Soviet Afghan War (338)

23 Mar 2024
1h 9m
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Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War on Netflix Podcast (337)

20 Mar 2024
55m
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Sex, spies and scandal : the John Vassall affair (336)

16 Mar 2024
1h 30m
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V-Bombers: Britain's Nuclear Frontline in the Cold War (335)

09 Mar 2024
1h 28m
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On the Streets of Cold War Estonia fighting for Independence (334)

02 Mar 2024
52m
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Borderlands and Battles: A Finnish Town's Cold War Story (333)

24 Feb 2024
1h 9m
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Australian Cold War Maritime Air Patrols (332)

17 Feb 2024
1h 26m
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A traumatic childhood journey from Cold War Poland to the United States (331)

10 Feb 2024
1h 24m
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Planning for a Hot War in the Cold War (330)

03 Feb 2024
1h 16m
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The Picnic That Ripped Open The Iron Curtain (329)

27 Jan 2024
1h 17m
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US Army Anti-Aircraft Missile Battery Command in Cold War West Germany (228)

20 Jan 2024
1h 18m
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Britain's first Cold War Nuclear Attack Warning Station at Jodrell Bank (327)

13 Jan 2024
1h 35m
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The East German Tank Commander (326)

06 Jan 2024
1h 38m
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Twilight of the Soviet Union – Memoirs of a British Journalist in Moscow (325)

30 Dec 2023
1h 22m
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Further Cold War Tank Tales from the Land Down Under (324)

23 Dec 2023
1h 0m
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How To Catch A Cold War Spy (323)

16 Dec 2023
1h 12m
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Cold War, Warm Hearts - Hitchhiking behind the 1960s Iron Curtain (322)

09 Dec 2023
59m
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Cold War Tank Tales from the Land Down Under (321)

02 Dec 2023
1h 0m
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Jack's dramatic Cold War escape across the fortified Inner German border (320)

25 Nov 2023
1h 27m
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How President Kennedy's assassination almost started World War 3 (319)

22 Nov 2023
51m
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