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
Mark - A US Combat Engineer in Cold War West Germany (16)
Today we’re talking to Mark Valley, host of the Livedrop espionage podcast. Mark served with the US army as a combat engineer in West Germany and later with the Berlin Brigade. His story gives y...
30 Juni 20181h 26min
Sabine - An East German Childhood (15)
Today we speak to Sabine who was 13 when the Wall opened. We hear about her childhood in East Germany and gain great insight into life at the time, the pressures on her family and her first steps in...
23 Juni 20181h 15min
The 1968 Prague Spring (14)
In today’s episode we return to Czechoslovakia and one of the most iconic moments of the Cold War – The Prague Spring of 1968. We have with us Lani Seelinger of Socialism Realised which an excellent w...
16 Juni 201858min
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
My Stasi file is as thick as a phone book (12)
We’re chatting with Mark Reeder a musician and music producer who has been involved in the Berlin and international music scene since 1978, starting as Factory Records German representative from 1978-...
2 Juni 20181h 11min
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
