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Charlotte Philby talks about her grandfather Soviet spy Kim Philby & her book "Edith & Kim" (228)
Season 11 Episode 228
In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. Kim Philby was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Sov…
3 years, 11 months ago
The first woman to graduate from French Commando school (227)
Season 11 Episode 227
Maura McCormick was posted to Berlin as a Signals Intelligence voice interceptor (Russian). Her workplace was the Teufelsberg U.S. listening station,…
3 years, 11 months ago
Betrayed by comrades (226)
Season 11 Episode 226
Liz Kohn has been researching Alice Glasnerová, who was imprisoned as part of the early Cold War Czechoslovak show trials known as the Slansky trials…
4 years ago
My father, the KGB spy (225)
Season 11 Episode 225
In 1978, Ieva Lesinska was a university student in Soviet Latvia with dreams of becoming a writer. She had just spent a heady month in New York visit…
4 years ago
"Three, Two, one, detonation..." a Royal Navy nuclear test veteran remembers (224)
Season 11 Episode 224
The British Nuclear Test Veterans Association (BNTVA) is the Charity for UK Nuclear Veterans and last year they very kindly invited me to the annual …
4 years ago
The Stasi Poetry Circle (223)
Season 11 Episode 223
In 1982 the East German Ministry for State Security is hunting for creative new weapons in the war against the class enemy – and their solution is st…
4 years ago
The start of the Cuban revolution & the launch of Apollo 8 (222)
Season 11 Episode 222
The phrase “history is human” was coined by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian David McCullough. He says “History is about life. It…
4 years ago
Cold War British Army fighting tactics in West Germany (221)
Season 11 Episode 221
Frank Baldwin was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1979 and served for ten years, rising to the rank of Major. The first battlefield study he…
4 years, 1 month ago
The West Berlin village surrounded by the Berlin Wall (220)
Season 10 Episode 220
When the Cold War split Berlin in half, between East and West, one neighbourhood was trapped in the middle and became a symbol of Cold War tensions. …
4 years, 1 month ago
Tales of a West German football fan in the Soviet bloc (219)
Season 10 Episode 219
You will remember Karl-Heinz from our episode 218 where he talked about being a signaller on the West German destroyer "Hamburg" in the late 70s.
Tod…
4 years, 1 month ago