Manuel - Experiences of the Reforger 82 NATO Exercise (100)
Manuel Alzaga returns to the podcast after his debut in episode 57 with his experiences as US Army 18-year-old assistant artillery gunner in West Germany. He tells of his first impressions of West Ger...
28 Dec 201948min
A Cold War Mystery - Death in Ice Valley (99)
There’s an area near Bergen, Norway known as Isdalen (“Ice Valley”), but also nicknamed "Death Valley", due to the area's history of suicides in the Middle Ages, and more recent hiking accidents. In N...
21 Dec 201936min
Red Elvis, Dean Reed Cold War cowboy and Eastern Bloc Music Star Episode 2 (98)
We return to Ramona Reed’s account of her father, Dean Reed who was an American actor, singer, songwriter, director, and Socialist who became a huge star in Latin America and the Eastern Bloc. Now if ...
14 Dec 201959min
Red Elvis, Dean Reed the US music star behind the Iron Curtain - Episode 1 (97)
Ramona Reed’s father was Dean Reed an American actor, singer, songwriter, director, and Socialist who became a huge star in Latin America and the Eastern Bloc. Now if you like the podcast you can help...
7 Dec 201949min
Tales of my Father (96)
Today has been a difficult day. My Dad has just died. It was expected, but these things hit you nonetheless. He was a good father, a good man with many varied interests including art, photography, an...
3 Dec 201946min
Alexander - A Conscript in the Soviet Navy (95)
Alexander ‘Sasha’ Goncharov was born in Leningrad but early in this life moved to Ukraine. After leaving school he was drafted into the Soviet Military and was based in Sevastopol where he worked in N...
30 Nov 201957min
The Strange World of Cold War Romanian Football (94)
In this episode, we hear from Craig McCracken who spoke to us in episode 3. This time he tells us about the strange world of football in Cold War Romania and even if you are not interested in football...
23 Nov 20191h 5min
The Berlin Wall - Frederick Taylor (93)
Our interview today is with Frederick Taylor, the author of one of my favourite books on the Berlin Wall. Using official history, archive research and personal stories he has produced one of the defin...
16 Nov 20191h 14min
