The early days of the Cold War US Space program and origins of GPS (76)
Richard Easton is the co-author of GPS Declassified which examines the development of GPS or Sat Nav as some of us call it now, from its secret, Cold War military roots. Roger Easton, Richard's fathe...
16 Aug 201949min
Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe (75)
Today we’re talking to Alison Lewis, a professor in German at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of several books, including one in German about love and gender in literature during Germa...
9 Aug 201957min
A visit to World War 2 and Cold War airbase RAF Burtonwood (74)
I’m here today at the RAF Burtonwood Heritage Centre, near Warrington in the UK. Based on what was once the largest and longest-running military airbase in Britain. The Heritage Centre was established...
2 Aug 201959min
Breaking the news of the 1991 Soviet Coup (73)
We speak today with Alistair Coleman who joined BBC Monitoring as a technician in 1989, just in time for the Berlin Wall. He was on a console night shift at Caversham, on the night of the coup again...
26 Jul 201939min
Chasing the Moon - The Apollo 11 Moon Landing (72)
In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of...
19 Jul 20191h 4min
Stasi Infiltration of the Prenzlauer Berg Underground Literary Scene (71)
In this episode we speak with Dr Alison Lewis is Professor of German in the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the a co-author of Cold War Spy Stories ...
12 Jul 201922min
Secret Cold War Dutch submarine missions (70)
During the Cold War, six Dutch submarines secretly gathered intelligence about the Soviet Navy. Only a handful of people outside the Royal Netherlands Navy were aware of these operations, as they were...
5 Jul 20191h 10min
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
