Portland Spy Ring Part 2 (139)
This is the 2nd episode with Trevor Barnes, the author of “Dead Doubles, a new book on the Portland Spy Ring, one of the most infamous espionage cases of the Cold War. The story continues with the dra...
11 Sep 20201h 25min
Portland Spy Ring Part 1 (138)
In this episode we talk with Trevor Barnes, the author of “Dead Doubles, a new book on the Portland Spy Ring, one of the most infamous espionage cases of the Cold War. In 1960 it was discovered that c...
4 Sep 202051min
The Last British Commandant in Cold War West Berlin Part 2 (137)
This is the 2nd part of our conversation with Major General Sir Robert Corbett, KCVO, CB who was the last Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin. We join as I ask what were the British Army’s plan...
28 Aug 202057min
The Last British Commandant in Cold War West Berlin Part 1 (136)
Major General Sir Robert Corbett, KCVO, CB was the last Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin. We start his story with the description of his first experience of Berlin as a young Army officer co...
21 Aug 202048min
Eva - A Cold War Czechoslovak Childhood (135)
Born in Communist Czechoslovakia, Eva Caletkova has written an honest and unflinching account of her childhood in Bratislava. Eva’s parents were Catholics, and the communist regime began to persecute ...
14 Aug 20201h 18min
My father was Cold War Stasi spy Werner Stiller (134)
Werner Stiller’s spectacular defection to the West in 1979 inflicted one of the Cold War’s most serious blows to the Stasi. At the time he was working as a case officer for the Main Directorate for Re...
7 Aug 20201h 4min
Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War (133)
Tim Phillips travelled the route of the former Iron Curtain from deep inside the arctic circle to the meeting point in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey. On his journey, he explored both the surviving tr...
31 Jul 20201h 13min
Cold War Czechoslovak hockey star defects to Canada (132)
Vashi Nedomanský is the son of Czechoslovak former legendary ice hockey forward Václav Nedomanský aka “Big Ned” who is best known as the first ice hockey player to defect to North America to play. We...
24 Jul 20201h 13min
