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Serving on the West German destroyer "Hamburg" (218)
Season 10 Episode 218
Karl-Heinz served in the Bundesmarine as a Signalman on the West German destroyer "Hamburg" in the late 70s.
He talks of his training, his role and s…
4 years, 1 month ago
The CIA director responsible for creating spy devices (217)
Season 10 Episode 217
After service in the US Army during the Vietnam War Bob Wallace was recruited into the CIA.
In the CIA his initial assignments were as a field case o…
4 years, 2 months ago
Vietnam War draftee to US Army Rangers (216)
Season 10 Episode 216
Bob Wallace joined the US Army in 1968 as a reluctant conscript. He describes the draft process, and his attempts to avoid conscription.
After basic …
4 years, 2 months ago
Helping the Refuseniks (215)
Season 10 Episode 215
Refusenik was an unofficial term for individuals—typically, but not exclusively, Soviet Jews—who were denied permission to emigrate, primarily to Isr…
4 years, 2 months ago
Eyewitness to the 1991 Soviet Coup with Brett Elliott (214)
Season 10 Episode 214
Today’s episode is different. Brett Elliott died earlier this year and I was contacted by his ex-wife Polly who offered me a cassette tape.
Polly and…
4 years, 2 months ago
Working in the nuclear missile compartment of a Cold War Royal Navy Polaris submarine
Season 10 Episode 213
John Andrews joined the Royal Navy in 1981 and went on to serve aboard the HMS Repulse, one of the UK’s Polaris nuclear missile submarines from 1982.…
4 years, 2 months ago
British Army "stay behinds" the Special OP Troop (212)
Season 10 Episode 212
I speak with Colin Ferguson a veteran from the British Army‘s covert Special Observation Post Troop which was founded in 1982.
The "stay behind" Speci…
4 years, 3 months ago
A Cold War childhood in Albania (211)
Season 10 Episode 211
Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last St…
4 years, 3 months ago
The Cold War handshake in the heavens - the Apollo-Soyuz mission (210)
Season 10 Episode 210
On 17 July 1975 the first manned international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union. Millions of people aroun…
4 years, 3 months ago
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev - aspiring actor and poetry fan (209)
Season 10 Episode 209
Now, what do you think of when you hear the name Leonid Brezhnev who ruled the Soviet Union for 18 years from the 1960s to the 1980s?
An old guy wavi…
4 years, 4 months ago