Observing Cold War Armageddon (11)
Today we’re covering a British Cold War civil defence unit called the Royal Observer Corps. We’re talking to Alistair McCann who has preserved a Royal Observer Corps monitoring post as a museum in Nor...
26 Touko 20181h 3min
1960s Road Trip Across the Soviet Union (10)
Jeremy Poynton was a 16 year old school boy in 1968 when he embarked on a memorable trip by road from Leningrad to Odessa. He vividly describes a Soviet Union still struggling with poverty and a diver...
18 Touko 201853min
Cloak & Dagger in Cold War Prague (9)
Mark Baker is an independent journalist and travel writer who’s lived in Central Europe for more than two decades. I heartily recommend his travel website www.markbakerprague.com which is an eclecti...
12 Touko 20181h 17min
Warsaw Pact Armoured Fighting Vehicles (8)
Welcome to Episode 8 of Cold War Conversations where we talk about the armoured fighting vehicles of the Warsaw Pact. Russell Phillips has written several books on Warsaw Pact military equipment and...
7 Touko 20181h 11min
Interview with Stasi Child author - David Young (7)
We speak with David Young who has written the Stasi Child - Karin Müller series of crime thrillers set in East Germany in the mid 1970s. Support the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/ ...
5 Touko 20181h 3min
The 1953 Cold War East German Uprising with Dr Richard Millington (6)
We talk about the relatively little known Uprising of 1953 in East Germany. A lot of focus justifiably is on the fall of the Berlin Wall, but it can be argued that the Uprising of 1953 sowed the seed...
28 Huhti 20181h 35min
Espionage, East Germany and Berlin with Spybrary host Shane Whaley - Part 2 (5)
Welcome to episode 5 which is part 2 of our Cold War Conversation with Shane Whaley of Spybrary . Show notes at coldwarconversations.com/episode5/ We talked for some time ,so I have split this inter...
20 Huhti 201834min
Espionage, East Germany and Berlin with Spybrary host Shane Whaley - Part 1 (4)
Welcome to episode 4 (part 1) of Cold War Conversations. Today we’re talking about Cold War espionage, East Germany and Berlin with Spybrary host, Shane Whaley. Shane runs the Spybrary podcast at spy...
18 Huhti 201856min
