Taking A Holiday in Cold War Albania (115)
In early 1989 attention being paid to Albania in England by the English media because the England football team had recently travelled to Tirana for a World Cup qualifying game. Looking for somewhere...
28 Mar 202044min
Life as a British Soldier in Cold War West Berlin (114)
Anthony enlisted in the British Army in 1987 and after 9 months he was posted to West Berlin. He tells the story of life as a Private in Berlin from the drinking (and the fighting) to the urban warfar...
21 Mar 20201h 7min
Railway Encounters in Cold War Eastern Europe (113)
Charlie Flowers was 18 in 1988. He travelled by train across a divided Eastern Europe that was starting to show signs of the changes that manifested themselves in 1989. He shares stories of the intere...
14 Mar 202042min
Nuclear War in Cold War Britain (112)
For almost five decades, the United Kingdom made plans for a nuclear attack that never came. To help their citizens, civil servants and armed forces prepared those in power a variety of booklets, post...
7 Mar 202059min
Serving in the Cold War British Army Intelligence Corps during the 1960s & 70s (111)
Harry served as a soldier in the Intelligence Corps in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s. His role was that of an Intelligence and Security Operator, focused on the identification of foreign and other ma...
29 Feb 202044min
Bonus - Dr Strangelove Film Screening in a Nuclear Bunker (110)
Today is a short bonus episode I recorded at the weekend while at a film showing of Dr Strangelove in a former UK Regional Seat of Government Bunker in Cheshire... The Hack Green Bunker is my local Co...
26 Feb 202017min
Stasi Infiltration of the Cold War East German Church (109)
When the Berlin Wall came down, the files of the East German secret police, the much-dreaded Stasi, were opened and read. And among the shocking stories revealed was that of the Stasi's infiltration o...
22 Feb 202055min
The Regimes Museum (108)
Our guest today is Marc Voss the Founder and Executive Director of The Regimes Museum which is the culmination of an effort to collect, preserve, and archive material and artifacts from some of the mo...
15 Feb 20201h 16min
