Imprisoned in a Soviet Military gaol - a BRIXMIS officer's diary Pt 2 (251)
This is the 2nd part of my interview with Lt Col. Stephen Harrison, MBE who served for two years as a full-time Touring Officer with BRIXMIS. The tours were hazardous three-man, vehicle-borne patrols ...
2 Sep 20221h 1min
Arrested 11 times, plus 3 shooting incidents - a BRIXMIS officer's diary Pt 1 (250)
Lt Col. Stephen Harrison, MBE served for two years as a full-time Touring Officer with BRIXMIS. These Tours were hazardous three man, vehicle-borne patrols collecting intelligence on the Warsaw Pact f...
26 Aug 202252min
Life in the forbidden zone at the East/West German border (249)
A young Claudia Bierschenk lived at the edge of a world called the GDR, in a village surrounded by hills, valleys and thick forests. Her great uncle lives in the Forbidden Zone, the area where the Ea...
19 Aug 202251min
The girl at the edge of the World - an East German childhood at the West German Border (248)
A young Claudia Bierschenk lived in a village surrounded by hills, valleys and thick forests at the edge of a world called the GDR. It could be beautiful, but the Iron Curtain runs through it, like a ...
12 Aug 202256min
A daughter's 18 year search for her Cold War CIA pilot father at the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba (247)
In 1961, members of the Alabama Air National Guard secretly took part in the failed invasion of Cuba by U.S.-backed Cuban exiles known as the Bay of Pigs. This was a covert attempt by the United State...
5 Aug 20221h
British Army Air Corps helicopter co-pilot in Cold War Germany (246)
Paul continues his story with his recruitment into the Army Air Corps. It’s initially delayed with a tour providing airfield repair in West Germany and then the Falklands, but finally, he’s at trainin...
29 Jul 20221h 26min
A boy soldier in the Cold War Royal Engineers (245)
Paul joined the Royal Engineers in 1977, aged 16 as an apprentice. We hear of his experience of joining the army at such a young age and being away from home for the first time. After initial trainin...
22 Jul 202257min
A Mormon missionary in Cold War East Germany (244)
In the early 1980s East Germany had just 5000 members of the Church of Latter-day Saints, many of which had been members since before World War 2. In 1982 East German leader Erich Honecker historical...
14 Jul 20221h 24min
