Reporting the 1989 Romanian Revolution (126)
We talk again to Mark Brayne who worked as a Reuters & BBC journalist during the Cold War. This time we are in Romania in December 1989 where riots, street violence and murder in several cities over t...
12 Kesä 202047min
A British Journalist under Stasi Surveillance (125)
We talk to Mark Brayne again in a wide ranging chat about his career as a Reuters & BBC journalist including details of his Stasi file, his time in the Soviet Union, Hungary & Poland as well as the pe...
5 Kesä 202058min
Cold War Britain & The Bomb (124)
In Britain and the Bomb Bill Nuttall considers Britain's national journey from Empire to Europe and the transition of British nuclear weapons from the Royal Air Force to the Royal Navy. If you are enj...
29 Touko 202044min
A UK Journalist in the Soviet Union & GDR (123)
Mark Brayne studied in Moscow 71-72, travelling the country with fellow UK students and spending silly amounts of time in the bathhouses with salted fish and very poor quality beer. He returned in 197...
22 Touko 20201h 4min
A 23 year old Cold War nuclear missile commander (122)
Scott was a Pershing 2 nuclear missile Fire Control Officer which meant he was responsible for the launch of the missile. Aged 23 he was made platoon commander and responsible for 3 of these deadly we...
15 Touko 202050min
The Last Days of Cold War East Germany (121)
Michael Paterson first visited East Germany just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and provides a vivid account of its subsequent decline and fall during the move to reunification with West Germany. M...
8 Touko 202051min
Special Forces Berlin - Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990 (120)
James Stejskal served for 23 years with US Special Forces, including two tours in Berlin. Special Forces Berlin was a small detachment of 100 highly trained soldiers who, should hostilities break out,...
1 Touko 20201h 18min
Alan - Working in the GDR and the Soviet Union (119)
Alan Baker worked and studied in the GDR and the USSR from the 1970s through to the end of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the Russian Federation as we know it today. In Moscow, Alan had the opp...
24 Huhti 20201h 15min
