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
Soviet and U.S. Military Liaison Missions & US Counterintelligence SOXMIS & USMLM (196)
I speak with Aden Magee who operated as the commander of a highly specialized Counterintelligence (CI) unit in West Germany during the last decade of the Cold War. We talk about his book The Cold War ...
3 Sep 20211h 11min
Ron - a veteran of the Korean War & the Malayan Emergency (195)
Ron Knight served in the Royal Marines on HMS Belfast during the Korean War of 1950-53. He was a gunner and describes the shore bombardments and how his gun was used in anti-aircraft defence. We also ...
27 Aug 202155min
The Gouzenko Affair - the start of the Cold War (194)
Igor Gouzenko exposed Soviet intelligence's efforts to steal nuclear secrets as well as the technique of planting sleeper agents. The "Gouzenko Affair" is often credited as a triggering event of the C...
20 Aug 20211h 17min
Flying the F-111 nuclear bomber (193)
Rick Shreve was a USAF F111 pilot based at RAF Lakenheath in the UK. We hear about his early USAF career as a fighter pilot, then we move onto his transfer to the F111 and how he was trained to carry ...
13 Aug 20211h 28min
The forgotten cosmonaut (192)
This week it's the 60th anniversary of the flight of Gherman Titov on Vostok 2. The forgotten 2nd cosmonaut overshadowed by the exploits of his friend Yuri Gagarin. Titov’s 25.3 hours and 17 orbits fl...
10 Aug 202156min
A workers view of Poland from Łódź in 1986 (191)
Evan McGilvray has written a number of books on Poland as well as biographies. He is well versed in Poland and Polish society and away from the usual locations of Krakow and Warsaw. Evan first visited...
6 Aug 202154min
