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Cold War Conversations

Ian Sanders

"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.

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485 эпизодов

  1. Beyond the “Evil Empire”: Inside the Soviet Union in 1983 (482) 59:13
  2. Suez 1956: The Secret War That Broke British Power (481) 54:35
  3. London In Person Listener Meetup 12th Nov 1:23
  4. Me and Honest John - The Nuclear Secret Rich Kept for 60 Years (480) 1:03:57
  5. Hungary 1956: Twelve Days That Shook the Soviet Empire (479) 1:00:18
  6. What did Jacqueline Kennedy privately believe about the JFK Assassination? (478) 50:31
  7. My Cuban Encounters with Hemingway, Batista, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro (477) 59:32
  8. From Mao's Red Guard to conscription into the Chinese People's Liberation Army (476) 57:28
  9. The Birth of Poland's Free Trade Union Solidarity (475) 1:06:27
  10. Growing Up Under Communism on Cold War Poland’s Baltic Coast (474) 1:08:13
  11. If the Soviets Invaded : Sweden's Secret Underground Resistance Plan (473) 47:01
  12. Bandit Country - The IRA and South Armagh (472) 1:07:59
  13. A Czech Border Guard’s Daring Escape to the West (471) 1:23:34
  14. Twenty-Six Years Apart: A Family Reunited Behind the Iron Curtain (470) 54:33
  15. Announcing Cold War Conversations History Tours 0:51
  16. Between Two Air Forces: From East German Officer to German Captain (469) 50:03
  17. MiGs, Helicopters and Ideology: Life as an East German Air Force Officer (468) 44:38
  18. Growing Up Grey: Childhood in Cold War Romania (467) 42:03
  19. Defection, Spies and the Shadow of Georgi Markov (466) 41:35
  20. My Father - The Enemy of the People: A Bulgarian Family’s Cold War Story (465) 59:01
  21. Face to Face with the Srebrenica War Criminals (464) 1:12:42
  22. Inside a Cold War USAF Fighter Squadron (463) 1:09:57
  23. The Cambridge Five - new files reveal untold stories (462) 1:05:31
  24. Malta & West Germany - Memories of an RAF Childhood Abroad (461) 1:05:40
  25. Cold War Football: A History in Ten Matches (460) 52:51
  26. CIA and MI6 Covert Action in Communist Albania at the Dawn of the Cold War (459) 1:06:53
  27. On the edge of war: A V-Force pilot during the Cuban Missile Crisis (458) 1:18:06
  28. Conscripted to a West German Nuclear Missile Unit (457) 1:13:24
  29. Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Cold War Disinformation Front Line (456) 53:33
  30. 30 Miles from the North Korean Border - A US Military Childhood (455) 47:00
  31. The JFK Assassination: The human narratives behind one of history's most scrutinised events (454) 1:24:31
  32. Chornobyl: Anatomy of a Catastrophe (453) 1:13:32
  33. From East Berlin to West Ireland (452) 1:34:09
  34. Guarding the Wire at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (451) 1:08:57
  35. Soviet - Afghan War, Mujahideen Resistance: The Brutal Fight for Zhawar (450) 1:00:36
  36. Former MI5 & MI6 Legal Director Looks Back at His Time in Cold War Berlin (449) 1:17:47
  37. An officer in The Internal Troops of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs (448) 48:51
  38. Growing up in Soviet Ukraine in the 1960s and 70s (447) 49:16
  39. Secret Warriors - British Submarines during the Cold War (446) 1:15:25
  40. American MiG Pilot: Inside the Top Secret USAF "Red Eagles" MiG Squadron Part 2 (445) 48:20
  41. High School Student to the Top Secret USAF Red Eagles Soviet MIG Squadron Part 1 (444) 50:11
  42. The Moscow Playbook: How Russia Used, Abused, and Transformed Sports in the Hunt for Power (443) 1:01:34
  43. Chasing Rogue Nukes after the Fall of the Soviet Union (442) 52:09
  44. Dead Drops and Disguises - A Female CIA Officer in 1980s Moscow (441) 49:20
  45. Cold War British Army "stay behinds" - Live at the Imperial War Museum London (440) 54:23
  46. Planning an Escape for 13 Years: How One Family Outsmarted the Iron Curtain (439) 1:23:11
  47. Why did the USA invade Grenada in 1983? (438) 50:22
  48. When Terrorism Went Global: Plane Hijackings and Violence in the 1970s (437) 1:00:51
  49. When East German Soldiers Dreamed of Flying Over the Wall (436) 1:14:59
  50. Cold War Kid to Space Age Engineer via President Kennedy's last flight alive & RAF Upper Heyford (435) 1:27:11