A US soldier at Checkpoint Charlie when the Berlin Wall opened (13)
Michael Rafferty was posted to Berlin in 1988. He served in the 287th Military Police Company at Checkpoint Charlie and was there through to the historic opening of the Berlin Wall and the removal of ...
9 Juni 20181h 16min
Observing Cold War Armageddon (11)
Today we’re covering a British Cold War civil defence unit called the Royal Observer Corps. We’re talking to Alistair McCann who has preserved a Royal Observer Corps monitoring post as a museum in Nor...
26 Maj 20181h 3min
1960s Road Trip Across the Soviet Union (10)
Jeremy Poynton was a 16 year old school boy in 1968 when he embarked on a memorable trip by road from Leningrad to Odessa. He vividly describes a Soviet Union still struggling with poverty and a diver...
18 Maj 201853min
Cloak & Dagger in Cold War Prague (9)
Mark Baker is an independent journalist and travel writer who’s lived in Central Europe for more than two decades. I heartily recommend his travel website www.markbakerprague.com which is an eclecti...
12 Maj 20181h 17min
Warsaw Pact Armoured Fighting Vehicles (8)
Welcome to Episode 8 of Cold War Conversations where we talk about the armoured fighting vehicles of the Warsaw Pact. Russell Phillips has written several books on Warsaw Pact military equipment and...
7 Maj 20181h 11min
Interview with Stasi Child author - David Young (7)
We speak with David Young who has written the Stasi Child - Karin Müller series of crime thrillers set in East Germany in the mid 1970s. Support the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/ ...
5 Maj 20181h 3min
The 1953 Cold War East German Uprising with Dr Richard Millington (6)
We talk about the relatively little known Uprising of 1953 in East Germany. A lot of focus justifiably is on the fall of the Berlin Wall, but it can be argued that the Uprising of 1953 sowed the seed...
28 Apr 20181h 35min
