Drea - A Cold War Czechoslovak childhood (187)
Drea Hahn was born in Czechoslovakia in 1980 in Teplice. Her mother was a secretary and her father was an engineer but refused to join the communist party and this was a source of tension in Drea’s fa...
9 Jul 202153min
An evening with Kim Philby (186)
Ben Brown is the writer of A Splinter of Ice, a play that portrays the meeting in Moscow in 1987 of one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, Graham Greene and his old MI6 boss, Kim Philby, o...
6 Jul 202159min
Behind enemy lines in East Germany with a US Military Liaison Mission driver Part 2 (185)
We return to the 2nd part of Tom Favia’s story with the US Military Liaison Mission which the Soviet Union permitted to operate in East Germany, ostensibly for monitoring and furthering better relatio...
2 Jul 202149min
Ethel Rosenberg (184)
Ethel Rosenberg is a controversial figure and generates polarising views varying from an innocent mother caught up in Cold War hysteria to a willing and ruthless accomplice to her husband’s Cold War e...
25 Jun 20211h 1min
Behind enemy lines in East Germany with a US Military Liaison Mission driver Part 1 (183)
Tom Favia served with the USMLM, The US Military Liaison Mission which the Soviet Union permitted to operate in East Germany at the end of World War 2 for monitoring and furthering better relationship...
18 Jun 20211h 5min
Ralph - A prisoner in an East German jail (182)
This is the third and final part of Ralph Hänel’s story of his life in East Germany. In this episode, we hear his time in the Stasi prison in Cottbus which with its dark red brick façade was often ref...
11 Jun 20211h 5min
Ralph - Arrested and interrogated by the Stasi (181)
In this second part of Ralph Hänel’s story of his life in East Germany. We hear of Ralph’s arrest by the Stasi and subsequent interrogation for 10 months. Ralph describes in some detail the arrest an...
4 Jun 20211h 3min
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown that Shaped the Modern World (180)
We speak with author Giles Milton about his new book Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown that Shaped the Modern World. In 1945 at the end of World War 2 the Soviet Red Army captured Berlin. For...
28 Mai 20211h 13min
