Emanuela - a Cold War Romanian Childhood (204)
Emanuela Grama was born in the mid-1970s’ in a small provincial town in Eastern Romania. She provides us with a great insight into life in the Romanian provinces during the 1980s. Emanuela lived in ...
15 Okt 20211h 3min
Pete - a BRIXMIS driver behind enemy lines in East Germany (203)
Pete Curran served with BRIXMIS, the British Military Liaison Mission in East Germany. Their operation was established by a post-WWII Allied occupation forces' agreement, where British, US and French ...
8 Okt 20211h
MKUltra - the CIA’s mind control project & the mysterious death of Frank Olson (202)
Frank Olson was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist, and employee of the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories. In 1953 at a meeting in rural Maryland, he was covertl...
1 Okt 20211h 1min
Flying into nuclear mushroom clouds (201)
Squadron Leader John Robinson AFC (ret’d) was an RAF pilot who was tasked to fly into the mushroom clouds of nuclear bomb tests to capture samples at Operation Buffalo at Maralinga in 1956, and Operat...
24 Sep 202158min
Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 3 (200)
We hear of Joanna's heartbreak when her visa is refused, preventing her from marrying Yuri. However, using an ingenious method she manages an emotional reunion and eventual marriage as the Soviet Unio...
17 Sep 202158min
Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 2 (199)
Joanna is questioned by the KGB and the FBI, falls in love with Yuri and starts to smuggle the bands' music out of the Soviet Union to produce the album. Details of the book giveaway are here https:/...
14 Sep 202158min
Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 1 (198)
Joanna Stingray was only 23 years old when she first set foot in the USSR and started meeting now-legendary musicians and artists of the Soviet underground. By 1985, she was writing and recording with...
10 Sep 202151min
Popular Cold War culture of the 1980s (197)
Over the past, nearly two decades, the Stuck in the 80s podcast has emerged as the go-to for all aspects of 1980s nostalgia from a North American point of view. And, much like Cold War Conversations, ...
7 Sep 202152min
