Cold War West German Nuclear Monitoring System (24)
West Germany had a number of Nuclear Warning Bunkers dotted around the country similar to the Royal Observer Corps in the UK. Mirko Krumm describes the organisation West German Civil Defence and the p...
25 Aug 201838min
Gary Powers & the 1960 U2 Incident
Powers' U-2 was shot down on May 1, 1960, as he flew over Soviet airspace, and after parachuting out of the plane he was captured and convicted of espionage. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison but...
18 Aug 201855min
The Trabant car - East German icon (22)
We’re talking about East German cars with Alex Goffe and Mark Mullarkey of the UK-based Wartburg Trabant IFA Club. Now I don’t think Top Gear or Jeremy Clarkson, etc. have anything to worry about, but...
11 Aug 201840min
BRIXMIS, the defence of Cold War Berlin & Rudolf Hess (21)
Welcome to Episode 21 of Cold War Conversations. Now I am very excited by today’s guest and we have a packed episode for you. Nigel Dunkley MBE is a former Royal Scots Dragoon Guard who served in Ber...
6 Aug 20181h 29min
Anke - Life as an East German teenager (20)
Today we're talking to Anke Holst was born in the GDR during the 1970s in Rostock. Anke has returned to Rostock after many years abroad and now provides tours of GDR sites in Rostock. Our conversation...
29 Juli 20181h 22min
Able Archer and the Cold War nuclear war scare of 1983 (19)
Today we're talking to Francesca Akhtar who holds a BA Hons in American Studies with 1st class honours from Canterbury Christ Christ Church University in Kent, and a Masters degree in US history & Pol...
21 Juli 20181h 14min
RAF Greenham Common - A history of the iconic Cold War British nuclear base.(18)
The airfield is probably best known, certainly in the UK, for the controversial deployment of Ground Launched Cruise Missiles in the 1980s and the resulting Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp outside ...
14 Juli 20181h 4min
Eyewitness to the Prague Spring
In 1968 today’s guest was 15 year old at the same school in Prague as Czech communist leader Alexander Dubček’s son. Jan Čulík provides a valuable eyewitness account of the heady days of the Prague Sp...
7 Juli 20181h 8min
