Dickey Chapelle - trailblazing female Cold War journalist (299)
Now have you ever heard of Dickey Chapelle? No, I hadn’t either, but I’m delighted to bring you the unknown story of this trailblazing female war correspondent. Dickey’s career started in World War 2 ...
7 Jul 20231h 4min
The Cold war ice hockey team that fought the Soviets for the soul of its nation (298)
I speak with author Ethan Scheiner whose book “Freedom to Win” describes the gripping story of a group of small-town young men who would lead their underdog hockey team from Czechoslovakia against the...
30 Jun 20231h 24min
The last voice you'd hear in a nuclear war (297)
The BBC Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS) is a little-known piece of Cold War history that would have been for many the last human voice they heard after a nuclear attack on the UK. Iain started wor...
23 Jun 202349min
A KGB trained spy's desperate escape from Cold War South Africa (295)
South Africa in the 1980s is a brutal, racist Apartheid regime. Those who oppose it risk their lives. Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1...
16 Jun 202354min
A KGB trained spy in Cold War South Africa (294)
South Africa in the 1980s is a brutal, racist regime. Those who oppose it risk their lives. Sue Dobson, was a young white South African woman who was also a spy for the banned African National Congres...
9 Jun 202350min
The 10 year old girl who tried to stop a nuclear war (293)
In November of 1982, at the height of the Cold War, Samantha Smith, a 10-year-old girl from Manchester, Maine, wrote to the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov and asked him if he was going to wage a nuclear ...
2 Jun 20231h 12min
Cold War Polish People Army Radio Operator (292)
Communist Poland had universal conscription and the armed forces were huge by contemporary standards. The Polish People’s Army, Navy, and Airforce had just over 400,000 troops for most of the 1980s in...
26 Mai 202356min
