Working at the British Embassy in Cold War Bucharest (60)
In this episode we speak with Colin Munro who has had an extensive career with the British Diplomatic Service. Today we speak about his time as Head of Chancery in Bucharest, Romania between 1981 t...
26 Apr 201937min
A 1980s trip on the Trans Siberian Railway (59)
In this episode we speak with Mark Wiegers who travelled on the Trans-Siberian Railway in the late 1980s. His story tells of trouble with officialdom, the unexpected kindness of strangers and the beau...
19 Apr 20191h
58 - Red Reporter - Covert Correspondent for East Germany - Part 2
In this episode, we welcome back John Green to talk further about his covert journalism for East Germany. His story continues with his account of the Portuguese Carnation Revolution and a dangerous ...
12 Apr 201950min
A 17 year old in the Cold War US Army (57)
Today we speak to Manuel Alzaga who as a 17 year old joined the US Army in 1981. Manuel signed up to the artillery and tells his story from life of poverty in Los Angeles through to deployment in We...
5 Apr 201936min
The Cold War Candy Bomber (56)
We speak to 98 year old Gail Halvorsen aka "The Candy Bomber" who flew in the Berlin Airlift in 1948. The Soviets had started a 11-month land blockade against West Berlin. The blockade was broken by ...
30 Mar 201930min
Why Preserve Cold War Communist Architecture? (55)
We welcome back Mark Baker from episode 9 where we spoke about his time in 1980s Czechoslovakia. Mark is a freelance journalist & travel writer living in his adopted hometown of Prague. I really re...
23 Mar 201955min
Cold War Canadians Hunt For Red October (54)
Colonel Terry Chester spent a good portion of his RCAF career hunting for Soviet Submarines in both the Pacific and Atlantic area's of operation. He was instrumental in the design criteria for sub h...
16 Mar 201947min
Cold War East German Army Officer at the Fall of the Berlin Wall (53)
In this episode we hear the third and final part of Torsten Belger’s story as he tells us about his first visit to West Berlin, leaving the East German Army and life after the GDR. Before we start a ...
9 Mar 201940min
