The last voice you'd hear in a nuclear war (297)
The BBC Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS) is a little-known piece of Cold War history that would have been for many the last human voice they heard after a nuclear attack on the UK. Iain started wor...
23 Jun 202349min
The ultimate guide to Cold War locations in Berlin (296)
Jonny Whitlam has been a Berlin tour guide since 2010, and since then he’s been showing travellers from across the world the fascinating history of Berlin. We met via social media after I noticed his ...
20 Jun 20231h 14min
A KGB trained spy's desperate escape from Cold War South Africa (295)
South Africa in the 1980s is a brutal, racist Apartheid regime. Those who oppose it risk their lives. Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1...
16 Jun 202354min
A KGB trained spy in Cold War South Africa (294)
South Africa in the 1980s is a brutal, racist regime. Those who oppose it risk their lives. Sue Dobson, was a young white South African woman who was also a spy for the banned African National Congres...
9 Jun 202350min
The 10 year old girl who tried to stop a nuclear war (293)
In November of 1982, at the height of the Cold War, Samantha Smith, a 10-year-old girl from Manchester, Maine, wrote to the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov and asked him if he was going to wage a nuclear ...
2 Jun 20231h 12min
Cold War Polish People Army Radio Operator (292)
Communist Poland had universal conscription and the armed forces were huge by contemporary standards. The Polish People’s Army, Navy, and Airforce had just over 400,000 troops for most of the 1980s in...
26 Mai 202356min
Volker the Berlin Wall Escape Helper (291)
It’s 1966 in Berlin and the city has now been divided for 5 years by an almost impenetrable wall erected by the communist German Democratic Republic. Together with his friends, West German student Vol...
19 Mai 20231h 19min
Cold War Canadian airborne anti-submarine missions (290)
Colonel Terry Chester’s flying career spanned some 42 years, and 10,000 flying hours. He joined the RCAF in Sept 1964 and in 1968 was awarded Navigator Wings. Terry flew for 3,000 hrs on the Argus Mar...
12 Mai 202339min
