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The girl at the edge of the World - an East German childhood at the West German Border (248)
Season 13 Episode 248
A young Claudia Bierschenk lived in a village surrounded by hills, valleys and thick forests at the edge of a world called the GDR. It could be beau…
3 years, 7 months ago
A daughter's 18 year search for her Cold War CIA pilot father at the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba (247)
Season 13 Episode 247
In 1961, members of the Alabama Air National Guard secretly took part in the failed invasion of Cuba by U.S.-backed Cuban exiles known as the Bay of …
3 years, 7 months ago
British Army Air Corps helicopter co-pilot in Cold War Germany (246)
Season 13 Episode 246
Paul continues his story with his recruitment into the Army Air Corps. It’s initially delayed with a tour providing airfield repair in West Germany a…
3 years, 7 months ago
A boy soldier in the Cold War Royal Engineers (245)
Season 13 Episode 245
Paul joined the Royal Engineers in 1977, aged 16 as an apprentice. We hear of his experience of joining the army at such a young age and being away f…
3 years, 7 months ago
A Mormon missionary in Cold War East Germany (244)
Season 13 Episode 244
In the early 1980s East Germany had just 5000 members of the Church of Latter-day Saints, many of which had been members since before World War 2.
In…
3 years, 8 months ago
US Navy Cold War airborne electronic reconnaissance (243)
Season 13 Episode 243
KC flew the US Navy’s airborne Electronic Reconnaissance during the 1980s in the Lockheed EP-3 which is an electronic signals reconnaissance version …
3 years, 8 months ago
My life laid bare through secret police files (242)
Season 13 Episode 242
What is it like to be under secret police surveillance? On 10 March 1983, 12-year-old Carmen Bugan returned from school to find Romanian secret polic…
3 years, 8 months ago
Royal Military Police versus the Soviets (SOXMIS) in Cold War West Germany (241)
Season 13 Episode 241
Keith Bailey Joined British Army at 16 in 1973. He was recruited into the Blues and Royals, (Household Cavalry) and served in West Germany as a gunne…
3 years, 8 months ago
The man who built his own nuclear bunker (240)
Season 12 Episode 240
Graham Bate was 30-year-old Civil Servant when he built his own nuclear bunker in the garden of his rural home 20 miles outside Hull in the UK.
It was…
3 years, 8 months ago
Cold War number stations (239)
Season 12 Episode 239
You might remember listening to short wave radio during the Cold War and coming across weird transmissions of metallic voices reciting random groups …
3 years, 9 months ago