Witness to the Eastern Bloc revolutions of the 1980s with Professor Timothy Garton Ash (158)
Professor Timothy Garton Ash is a British historian, author, commentator and Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Professor Garton Ash witnessed some of the most critical moments in the...
9 Jan 20211h 14min
Ian Black - Flying the English Electric Lightning (157)
Ian Black is a former RAF Fighter Pilot with a passion for photography and motorcycles. He began his flying career with the legendary McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom in RAF Germany at the height of the ...
2 Jan 20211h 23min
Sovietisation of Estonia (156)
Michael Zdanowski was born and raised in the UK, but his interest with the Cold War goes back generations. His grandfather having emigrated from Poland to the United Kingdom during the second world wa...
30 Dec 202059min
Deputy Head of UK Mission in East Berlin - Part 2 (155)
This is Part 2 of our conversation with Colin Munro who was the British Deputy Head of Mission in East Berlin from 1987 to 1990. In this episode we move to the monumental events of 1989 as the GDR wa...
26 Dec 202045min
Deputy Head of UK Mission in East Berlin - Part 1 (154)
Colin Munro was the British Deputy Head of Mission in East Berlin from 1987 to 1990. Although the UK did not recognise East Berlin as part of the GDR in 1973 it established an Embassy “to” the GDR (no...
19 Dec 202050min
Just another day in Vietnam (153)
In this episode we talk with Col. Keith Nightingale who served in the US military from 1965 to 1993. He completed two tours of Vietnam; the first as a Senior Advisor to a Vietnamese Ranger unit and th...
12 Dec 20201h 15min
With Solidarity in Gdansk in 1980 (152)
During her first visit to Poland in 1980, Dr Jacqueline Hayden met the leading members of the free trade union ‘Solidarność’, including the future president Lech Wałęsa. As a freelance journalist at t...
5 Dec 20201h 27min
Sue Boyd - Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in East Berlin (151)
Sue Boyd has been the head of Australian diplomatic missions in Fiji, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Bangladesh. She also had postings at the United Nations in New York and in the former East Germany. Sue was...
28 Nov 20201h 7min
