

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


Across the Iron Curtain in a yellow MG Midget sports car (317)

1983 - the year the Cold War almost turned hot (316)

Serving in a Cold War Danish Reconnaissance Squadron (315)

The Cold War Atomic Spies (314)

Spying on NATO from a Cold War East German Army radio monitoring base Part 2 (313)

Spying on NATO from a Cold War East German Army radio monitoring base Part 1 (312)

Cold War US Army tank gunner serves with a Bundeswehr Panzer unit (311)

Uncovering Cold War Soviet secrets with the USAF and NSA (310)

REME Keeping the British Army on the road during the Cold War (309)

Gunfire in the Woods: A foiled escape and imprisonment in Cold War East Germany (308)

Growing up in Cold War East Germany's Valley of the Clueless (307)

Flying the Cold War A10 Tankbuster Part 2 (306)

Flying the Cold War A10 Tankbuster Part 1 (305)

A Cold War Polish childhood near Wroclaw (304)

Soviet MIG shoots-down a US RB-47H reconnaissance plane (303)

The rise and fall of East German leader Erich Honecker (302)

US Army tank platoon commander in 1980s Cold War Korea (301)

Assembling and delivering nuclear artillery rounds to the Cold War West German Army (300)

Dickey Chapelle - trailblazing female Cold War journalist (299)
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