Nuking the Moon & Other Cold War Intelligence Schemes & Military Plots left on the Drawing Board (68)
We talk with Vince Houghton – Curator of the International Spy Museum who has just written a new book called “Nuking the Moon & Other Intelligence Schemes & Military Plots left on the Drawing Board" ...
21 Juni 20191h 20min
Janina - Life in a Cold War East German village near the Polish border (67)
Todays episode is different, the interviewer is not me, but one of our listeners who contacted me to help produce content for the podcast. This gave me the idea for a new area of the podcast called “C...
14 Juni 201941min
Cold War fiction - Liberation Square (66)
Gareth Rubin is an author and journalist and today we’re talking to him about his latest novel, Liberation Square set in a Soviet occupied UK in the 1950s. Thanks to our select band of supporters who...
7 Juni 201943min
A tour of Cold War airbase RAF Upper Heyford (65)
In this episode we visit RAF Upper Heyford for a photography tour for Cold War enthusiasts … The episode is in three parts, the first is some audio from the tour, followed by an interview with Ric Ba...
31 Maj 201942min
Flying the Cold War CF-104 Starfighter over Germany (63)
Laurie Hawn is a retired Canadian Member of Parliament and former career fighter pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Laurie tells the story of low level delivery of nuclear weapons via the Starf...
17 Maj 20191h 2min
Disarming Doomsday - The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima (62)
In this episode we speak with Dr Becky-Alexis Martin who is a lecturer in Cultural and Political Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University and author of Disarming Doomsday – The Human Impact of ...
10 Maj 201959min
A Cold War US Soldier defects to East Germany (61)
What could make a privileged 24-year-old American serving in the US Army in Germany in 1952 to swim across the Danube River to what was then the Soviet Zone? Victor Grossman who was born Stephen Wech...
3 Maj 201952min
Working at the British Embassy in Cold War Bucharest (60)
In this episode we speak with Colin Munro who has had an extensive career with the British Diplomatic Service. Today we speak about his time as Head of Chancery in Bucharest, Romania between 1981 t...
26 Apr 201937min
