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Born into a family of Canadian Communists (208)
Season 10 Episode 208
Fred Weir was a third-generation red diaper baby from Toronto and a long-time member of the Communist Party. His uncle, trained at the Lenin School i…
4 years, 4 months ago
Berlin: Capital of Spies (207)
Season 10 Episode 207
For almost half a century, the hottest front in the Cold War was right across Berlin. From summer 1945 until 1990, spying was part of everyday life i…
4 years, 4 months ago
How a Soviet conscript became a NATO General (206)
Season 10 Episode 206
In 1985, an eighteen-year-old named Riho Terras arrived at the Soviet armed forces’ large conscript assessment facility in Tallinn obeying his conscr…
4 years, 4 months ago
Terrorism in the Cold War (205)
Season 9 Episode 205
I talk with the writers and editors of Terrorism in the Cold War a new two volume book that uses a wide range of case studies including Polish Milita…
4 years, 4 months ago
Emanuela - a Cold War Romanian Childhood (204)
Season 9 Episode 204
Emanuela Grama was born in the mid-1970s’ in a small provincial town in Eastern Romania. She provides us with a great insight into life in the Romani…
4 years, 4 months ago
Pete - a BRIXMIS driver behind enemy lines in East Germany (203)
Season 9 Episode 203
Pete Curran served with BRIXMIS, the British Military Liaison Mission in East Germany. Their operation was established by a post-WWII Allied occupati…
4 years, 5 months ago
MKUltra - the CIA’s mind control project & the mysterious death of Frank Olson (202)
Season 9 Episode 202
Frank Olson was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist, and employee of the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories. In …
4 years, 5 months ago
Flying into nuclear mushroom clouds (201)
Season 9 Episode 201
Squadron Leader John Robinson AFC (ret’d) was an RAF pilot who was tasked to fly into the mushroom clouds of nuclear bomb tests to capture samples at…
4 years, 5 months ago
Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 3 (200)
Season 9 Episode 200
We hear of Joanna's heartbreak when her visa is refused, preventing her from marrying Yuri. However, using an ingenious method she manages an emotion…
4 years, 5 months ago
Life in the underground Soviet music scene Part 2 (199)
Season 9 Episode 199
Joanna is questioned by the KGB and the FBI, falls in love with Yuri and starts to smuggle the bands' music out of the Soviet Union to produce the al…
4 years, 6 months ago