The man who owns a Cold War Soviet submarine (35)
We talk with John Sutton who owns a Foxtrot class Soviet Submarine moored in the middle of the River Medway in Kent. This may seem an unlikely location for a Soviet submarine but John tells an interes...
10 Marras 201842min
Samy - Life as a West Berliner in Cold War Berlin (34)
Today we talk with Samy who as a native West Berliner describes growing up in the city during the 1970s and 80s. He describes in detail the difference between West Berlin and West Germany, including ...
3 Marras 201850min
Eileen - A British teacher living & working in Cold War East Berlin
Eileen shares some great information with us of working & living in East Berlin, with some surprising details. She also generously reveals details about the contents of her Stasi file. It’s a fasci...
26 Loka 201837min
The Korean War in Britain (31)
We speak with Doctor Grace Huxford, author of the Korean War in Britain – Citizenship, Selfhood and Forgetting. The Korean War was known as the “forgotten war”, but it is key in understanding the ear...
12 Loka 201858min
Leaving your family to go off to a nuclear war (30)
Dave Arnold was the Chief Observer at a Royal Observer Corps nuclear monitoring post. I made a fascinating visit with Dave to the Rushton Spencer Royal Observer Corps nuclear monitoring post in Staff...
6 Loka 201858min
Cold War Living History Event - The Soviet Threat (29)
This episode takes place at a Living History event in and around the Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker museum in deepest Cheshire in the UK. I can heartily recommend visiting the Hack Green Bunker and ...
29 Syys 201854min
Cold War USAF pilot Buz Carpenter talks Vietnam recon, Skunkworks and more
USAF pilot Buz Carpenter talks about about flying reconnaissance over Vietnam, the Skunkworks where secret USAF projects were developed, his time commanding Ramstein airbase at the end of the Cold War...
21 Syys 201845min
