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
Eileen - A British student living in Cold War East Germany (32)
Today we speak with Eileen Ford-Price who was British student in the GDR in the 1980s in Rostock. Before we start I’d like to thank all our Patreon who donate monthly to support the podcast further an...
20 Loka 201840min
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
Flying the Cold War Blackbird SR71 Spyplane (27)
Today we are talking about the SR71 Blackbird spy plane. Only 32 Blackbirds were ever made, and they were in service from 1964-1998. The great defensive ability of the plane was its high speed and alt...
15 Syys 201854min
My father was the leader of the Soviet Union - Part 2 (26)
This is part 2 of my conversation with Professor Sergei Khrushchev the son of Nikita Khrushchev who led the Soviet Union 1953 to 1964. Before we start I would again like to thank all those who are sup...
7 Syys 201832min
