Samy - Life as a West Berliner in Cold War Berlin (34)
Today we talk with Samy who as a native West Berliner describes growing up in the city during the 1970s and 80s. He describes in detail the difference between West Berlin and West Germany, including ...
3 Nov 201850min
Eileen - A British teacher living & working in Cold War East Berlin
Eileen shares some great information with us of working & living in East Berlin, with some surprising details. She also generously reveals details about the contents of her Stasi file. It’s a fasci...
26 Okt 201837min
Eileen - A British student living in Cold War East Germany (32)
Today we speak with Eileen Ford-Price who was British student in the GDR in the 1980s in Rostock. Before we start I’d like to thank all our Patreon who donate monthly to support the podcast further an...
20 Okt 201840min
The Korean War in Britain (31)
We speak with Doctor Grace Huxford, author of the Korean War in Britain – Citizenship, Selfhood and Forgetting. The Korean War was known as the “forgotten war”, but it is key in understanding the ear...
12 Okt 201858min
Leaving your family to go off to a nuclear war (30)
Dave Arnold was the Chief Observer at a Royal Observer Corps nuclear monitoring post. I made a fascinating visit with Dave to the Rushton Spencer Royal Observer Corps nuclear monitoring post in Staff...
6 Okt 201858min
Cold War Living History Event - The Soviet Threat (29)
This episode takes place at a Living History event in and around the Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker museum in deepest Cheshire in the UK. I can heartily recommend visiting the Hack Green Bunker and ...
29 Sep 201854min
Cold War USAF pilot Buz Carpenter talks Vietnam recon, Skunkworks and more
USAF pilot Buz Carpenter talks about about flying reconnaissance over Vietnam, the Skunkworks where secret USAF projects were developed, his time commanding Ramstein airbase at the end of the Cold War...
21 Sep 201845min
Flying the Cold War Blackbird SR71 Spyplane (27)
Today we are talking about the SR71 Blackbird spy plane. Only 32 Blackbirds were ever made, and they were in service from 1964-1998. The great defensive ability of the plane was its high speed and alt...
15 Sep 201854min
