

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


Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War on Netflix Podcast (337)

Sex, spies and scandal : the John Vassall affair (336)

V-Bombers: Britain's Nuclear Frontline in the Cold War (335)

On the Streets of Cold War Estonia fighting for Independence (334)

Borderlands and Battles: A Finnish Town's Cold War Story (333)

Australian Cold War Maritime Air Patrols (332)

A traumatic childhood journey from Cold War Poland to the United States (331)

Planning for a Hot War in the Cold War (330)

The Picnic That Ripped Open The Iron Curtain (329)

US Army Anti-Aircraft Missile Battery Command in Cold War West Germany (228)

Britain's first Cold War Nuclear Attack Warning Station at Jodrell Bank (327)

The East German Tank Commander (326)

Twilight of the Soviet Union – Memoirs of a British Journalist in Moscow (325)

Further Cold War Tank Tales from the Land Down Under (324)

How To Catch A Cold War Spy (323)

Cold War, Warm Hearts - Hitchhiking behind the 1960s Iron Curtain (322)

Cold War Tank Tales from the Land Down Under (321)

Jack's dramatic Cold War escape across the fortified Inner German border (320)

How President Kennedy's assassination almost started World War 3 (319)
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