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The Cold war Ice hockey team that fought the Soviets for the soul of its nation
Season 18 Episode 298
I speak with author Ethan Scheiner whose book “Freedom to Win” describes the gripping story of a group of small-town young men who would lead their u…
2 years, 8 months ago
The last voice you'd hear in a nuclear war
Season 18 Episode 297
The BBC Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS) is a little-known piece of Cold War history that would have been for many the last human voice they heard…
2 years, 8 months ago
The ultimate guide to Cold War locations in Berlin
Season 18 Episode 296
Jonny Whitlam has been a Berlin tour guide since 2010, and since then he’s been showing travellers from across the world the fascinating history of B…
2 years, 8 months ago
A KGB trained spy's desperate escape from Cold War South Africa
Season 18 Episode 295
South Africa in the 1980s is a brutal, racist Apartheid regime. Those who oppose it risk their lives. Apartheid was a system of institutionalised rac…
2 years, 8 months ago
A KGB trained spy in Cold War South Africa
Season 18 Episode 294
South Africa in the 1980s is a brutal, racist regime. Those who oppose it risk their lives.
Sue Dobson, was a young white South African woman who was …
2 years, 9 months ago
The 10 year old girl who tried to stop a nuclear war
Season 18 Episode 293
In November of 1982, at the height of the Cold War, Samantha Smith, a 10-year-old girl from Manchester, Maine, wrote to the Soviet leader Yuri Androp…
2 years, 9 months ago
Cold War Polish People Army Radio Operator
Season 18 Episode 292
Communist Poland had universal conscription and the armed forces were huge by contemporary standards. The Polish People’s Army, Navy, and Airforce ha…
2 years, 9 months ago
Volker the Berlin Wall Escape Helper
Season 18 Episode 291
It’s 1966 in Berlin and the city has now been divided for 5 years by an almost impenetrable wall erected by the communist German Democratic Republic.…
2 years, 9 months ago
Cold War Canadian airborne anti-submarine missions
Season 17 Episode 290
Colonel Terry Chester’s flying career spanned some 42 years, and 10,000 flying hours. He joined the RCAF in Sept 1964 and in 1968 was awarded Navigat…
2 years, 10 months ago
Discovering your husband is a KGB spy
Season 17 Episode 289
The second part of Svetlana’s story starts shortly after her arrival in West Germany with her husband Oleg who is the Chief Editor of the Russian Ser…
2 years, 10 months ago