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Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski (178)
Season 8 Episode 178
We speak with author Tim Tate about his new book the Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski
Michal Goleniewski rema…
4 years, 9 months ago
Ralph - DJing and Kung Fu in East Germany (177)
Season 8 Episode 177
Ralph Hänel tells some unique, strange and funny short stories about childhood and youth in East Germany.
We talk about the experiences of his parent…
4 years, 10 months ago
Irish Army peacekeeping in the Lebanon (176)
Season 8 Episode 176
Adrian Jones was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Irish Army in 1983. As a 23 year old officer he served in the United Nations Peacekeeping Force …
4 years, 10 months ago
Codename Hero - Soviet double agent Oleg Penkovsky (175)
Season 8 Episode 175
In August 1960, a Soviet colonel called Oleg Penkovsky contacted the West to offer to work as a 'soldier warrior for the free world. MI6 and the CIA …
4 years, 10 months ago
Korean war veteran & prisoner of war (174)
Season 8 Episode 174
70 years ago today would have been the middle of a desperate battle by outnumbered British forces at the battle of the Imjin River in Korea. The Kore…
4 years, 10 months ago
A journalist in apartheid South Africa (173)
Season 8 Episode 173
John Matisonn is a South African journalist who grew up in the suburbs in Johannesburg. In 1979 he was sentenced to jail for refusing to reveal his n…
4 years, 10 months ago
Yuri Gagarin - The first human in space (172)
Season 8 Episode 172
9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union’s most powerfu…
4 years, 11 months ago
Confrontation at the Stößensee (171)
Season 8 Episode 171
In April 1966, a state-of-the-art Soviet aircraft, the Yak-28P crashed into the British Sector of West Berlin. This intelligence gift to the Allied f…
4 years, 11 months ago
A 22 year old Briton working in East Germany (170)
Season 8 Episode 170
We speak with Chris Summers who as a 22 year old was sent by his employers to East Germany in a Ford Escort to install British factory machinery. He …
4 years, 11 months ago
Bonus - Soviet Tours (169)
Season 7 Episode 169
Soviet Tours is a Berlin-based tour operator focussed on off-the-beaten-path destinations across the globe.
Their core area, as the name suggests, li…
4 years, 11 months ago