A US Soldier defects to Cold War East Germany – Part 2 (69)
We continue the story of Victor Grossman the US Army soldier who defected to East Germany. He tells us of his life in the GDR, his close friendship with Dean Reed “The Red Elvis”, of shortages, his vi...
28 Jun 201956min
Nuking the Moon & Other Cold War Intelligence Schemes & Military Plots left on the Drawing Board (68)
We talk with Vince Houghton – Curator of the International Spy Museum who has just written a new book called “Nuking the Moon & Other Intelligence Schemes & Military Plots left on the Drawing Board" ...
21 Jun 20191h 20min
Janina - Life in a Cold War East German village near the Polish border (67)
Todays episode is different, the interviewer is not me, but one of our listeners who contacted me to help produce content for the podcast. This gave me the idea for a new area of the podcast called “C...
14 Jun 201941min
Cold War fiction - Liberation Square (66)
Gareth Rubin is an author and journalist and today we’re talking to him about his latest novel, Liberation Square set in a Soviet occupied UK in the 1950s. Thanks to our select band of supporters who...
7 Jun 201943min
Flying the Cold War CF-104 Starfighter over Germany (63)
Laurie Hawn is a retired Canadian Member of Parliament and former career fighter pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Laurie tells the story of low level delivery of nuclear weapons via the Starf...
17 Mai 20191h 2min
Disarming Doomsday - The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima (62)
In this episode we speak with Dr Becky-Alexis Martin who is a lecturer in Cultural and Political Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University and author of Disarming Doomsday – The Human Impact of ...
10 Mai 201959min
A Cold War US Soldier defects to East Germany (61)
What could make a privileged 24-year-old American serving in the US Army in Germany in 1952 to swim across the Danube River to what was then the Soviet Zone? Victor Grossman who was born Stephen Wech...
3 Mai 201952min
