Cold War East German Army Officer at the Fall of the Berlin Wall (53)
In this episode we hear the third and final part of Torsten Belger’s story as he tells us about his first visit to West Berlin, leaving the East German Army and life after the GDR. Before we start a ...
9 Mar 201940min
László Nagy - A Cold War Hungarian Life (52)
László Nagy was one of the early members of the Hungarian Democratic Forum in 1987. The HDF became Hungary’s largest political party following first free elections in 1990. In this episode we hear th...
2 Mar 20191h
The Cold War Blood Tattoo (51)
In 1951, a small pilot program was launched in Indiana and Utah as a civilian defense measure to aid in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. The idea was simple: If a bomb dropped, people would need med...
27 Feb 201944min
The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science - Freedom's Laboratory (50)
Audra J Wolfe is writer, editor, and historian based in Philadelphia. With a background in both science and history her work specifically focuses on the role of science during the Cold War, a period w...
23 Feb 201947min
An RAF pilot remembers the end of the Cold War (49)
In this episode we welcome back Nick Anderson who told us about his RAF service intercepting TU-95 Soviet Bear bombers over the North Sea. The story continues with his accounts of how the Soviet ai...
16 Feb 201938min
Gillian - A US Student visits Cold War Poland in 1989 (48)
In this episode we welcome back Gillian Cox who told us about her student trip to East Germany in 1989. In this episode the story continues with her trip further East into Poland. At this point Polan...
9 Feb 201924min
Red Reporter - Covert Correspondent for Cold War East Germany - Part 1 (47)
Today we speak to John Green. John Green grew up in Coventry in a communist family. After abandoning a zoology degree course after his second year at Bristol University, he switched to Drama. In 1964 ...
2 Feb 201947min
The Berlin Trilogy - Author Interview (46)
Today we welcome author Paul Grant whose excellent Berlin trilogy is set in Berlin during World War 2 and the Cold War. Paul and I talk about the books as well as his inspiration and how he did his ...
26 Jan 201957min
