Assembling and delivering nuclear artillery rounds to the Cold War West German Army (300)
In February 1983 US soldier Manuel Alzager was sent to a mysterious posting to the British Zone in the north of West Germany a long way from the main US forces in southern Germany. After a lengthy jou...
14 Heinä 202344min
Dickey Chapelle - trailblazing female Cold War journalist (299)
Now have you ever heard of Dickey Chapelle? No, I hadn’t either, but I’m delighted to bring you the unknown story of this trailblazing female war correspondent. Dickey’s career started in World War 2 ...
7 Heinä 20231h 4min
The Cold war ice hockey team that fought the Soviets for the soul of its nation (298)
I speak with author Ethan Scheiner whose book “Freedom to Win” describes the gripping story of a group of small-town young men who would lead their underdog hockey team from Czechoslovakia against the...
30 Kesä 20231h 24min
The last voice you'd hear in a nuclear war (297)
The BBC Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS) is a little-known piece of Cold War history that would have been for many the last human voice they heard after a nuclear attack on the UK. Iain started wor...
23 Kesä 202349min
The ultimate guide to Cold War locations in Berlin (296)
Jonny Whitlam has been a Berlin tour guide since 2010, and since then he’s been showing travellers from across the world the fascinating history of Berlin. We met via social media after I noticed his ...
20 Kesä 20231h 14min
A KGB trained spy's desperate escape from Cold War South Africa (295)
South Africa in the 1980s is a brutal, racist Apartheid regime. Those who oppose it risk their lives. Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1...
16 Kesä 202354min
A KGB trained spy in Cold War South Africa (294)
South Africa in the 1980s is a brutal, racist regime. Those who oppose it risk their lives. Sue Dobson, was a young white South African woman who was also a spy for the banned African National Congres...
9 Kesä 202350min
The 10 year old girl who tried to stop a nuclear war (293)
In November of 1982, at the height of the Cold War, Samantha Smith, a 10-year-old girl from Manchester, Maine, wrote to the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov and asked him if he was going to wage a nuclear ...
2 Kesä 20231h 12min
