Philippe - A French soldier in Cold War Berlin (189)
The French Forces in Berlin were the units of the French Armed Forces stationed from 1945 until the end of the Cold War-era in West Berlin according to the agreements of the Yalta Conference and Potsd...
23 Juli 202159min
A Czechoslovak family's escape to Austria (188)
We continue Drea Hahn’s story with her family’s escape to Austria and the realities of being a refugee. In 1986, under the pretext of a “ski trip” to Yugoslavia Drea’s family escaped to Austria. We h...
16 Juli 20211h 3min
Drea - A Cold War Czechoslovak childhood (187)
Drea Hahn was born in Czechoslovakia in 1980 in Teplice. Her mother was a secretary and her father was an engineer but refused to join the communist party and this was a source of tension in Drea’s fa...
9 Juli 202153min
An evening with Kim Philby (186)
Ben Brown is the writer of A Splinter of Ice, a play that portrays the meeting in Moscow in 1987 of one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, Graham Greene and his old MI6 boss, Kim Philby, o...
6 Juli 202159min
Behind enemy lines in East Germany with a US Military Liaison Mission driver Part 2 (185)
We return to the 2nd part of Tom Favia’s story with the US Military Liaison Mission which the Soviet Union permitted to operate in East Germany, ostensibly for monitoring and furthering better relatio...
2 Juli 202149min
Ethel Rosenberg (184)
Ethel Rosenberg is a controversial figure and generates polarising views varying from an innocent mother caught up in Cold War hysteria to a willing and ruthless accomplice to her husband’s Cold War e...
25 Juni 20211h 1min
Behind enemy lines in East Germany with a US Military Liaison Mission driver Part 1 (183)
Tom Favia served with the USMLM, The US Military Liaison Mission which the Soviet Union permitted to operate in East Germany at the end of World War 2 for monitoring and furthering better relationship...
18 Juni 20211h 5min
Ralph - A prisoner in an East German jail (182)
This is the third and final part of Ralph Hänel’s story of his life in East Germany. In this episode, we hear his time in the Stasi prison in Cottbus which with its dark red brick façade was often ref...
11 Juni 20211h 5min
