Yuri Gagarin - The first human in space (172)
9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile and blasts int...
9 Apr 20211h 16min
Confrontation at the Stößensee (171)
In April 1966, a state-of-the-art Soviet aircraft, the Yak-28P crashed into the British Sector of West Berlin. This intelligence gift to the Allied forces resulted in a tense confrontation with the So...
2 Apr 202146min
A 22 year old Briton working in East Germany (170)
We speak with Chris Summers who as a 22 year old was sent by his employers to East Germany in a Ford Escort to install British factory machinery. He provides us with interesting insights into life in ...
27 Mar 20211h 4min
Bonus - Soviet Tours (169)
Soviet Tours is a Berlin-based tour operator focussed on off-the-beaten-path destinations across the globe. Their core area, as the name suggests, lies mainly in and around the former USSR. From the ...
24 Mar 202141min
Commanding a Cold War Royal Navy Polaris Nuclear Missile Submarine (168)
Our conversation with Rob Forsyth continues when he became Executive Officer - and in command on occasions - of HMS Repulse, a Polaris nuclear missile submarine. We hear in detail the challenges of co...
20 Mar 20211h 26min
Cold War Royal Navy Diesel Submarine officer during the 1960s and 70s (167)
Commander Rob Forsyth joined submarines in1961. By March 1962 as a young officer, he joined HMS Auriga a 1945 vintage diesel submarine. Within 7 months the 22-year-old was loading live torpedoes and p...
13 Mar 20211h 8min
Jan - Greenham Common Peace Protester (166)
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a protest camp established in 1981 to protest against the deployment of USAF controlled Ground Launched nuclear armed Cruise Missiles at RAF Greenham Common in B...
6 Mar 202139min
The China civil war and the independence of Taiwan (165)
The events of 1949 in China reverberated across the world and throughout the rest of the century. That tumultuous year saw the dramatic collapse of Chiang Kai-shek's 'pro-Western' Nationalist governme...
27 Feb 202159min
