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Portland Spy Ring Part 1 (138)
Season 6 Episode 138
In this episode we talk with Trevor Barnes, the author of “Dead Doubles, a new book on the Portland Spy Ring, one of the most infamous espionage case…
5 years, 6 months ago
The Last British Commandant in Cold War West Berlin Part 2 (137)
Season 6 Episode 137
This is the 2nd part of our conversation with Major General Sir Robert Corbett, KCVO, CB who was the last Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin.…
5 years, 6 months ago
The Last British Commandant in Cold War West Berlin Part 1 (136)
Season 6 Episode 136
Major General Sir Robert Corbett, KCVO, CB was the last Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin.
We start his story with the description of his fir…
5 years, 6 months ago
Eva - A Cold War Czechoslovak Childhood (135)
Season 6 Episode 135
Born in Communist Czechoslovakia, Eva Caletkova has written an honest and unflinching account of her childhood in Bratislava.
Eva’s parents were Catho…
5 years, 7 months ago
My father was Cold War Stasi spy Werner Stiller
Season 6 Episode 134
Werner Stiller’s spectacular defection to the West in 1979 inflicted one of the Cold War’s most serious blows to the Stasi.
At the time he was working…
5 years, 7 months ago
Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War
Season 6 Episode 133
Tim Phillips travelled the route of the former Iron Curtain from deep inside the arctic circle to the meeting point in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey…
5 years, 7 months ago
Cold War Czechoslovak hockey star defects to Canada (132)
Season 6 Episode 132
Vashi Nedomanský is the son of Czechoslovak former legendary ice hockey forward Václav Nedomanský aka “Big Ned” who is best known as the first ice ho…
5 years, 7 months ago
Robert - The anti Cold War activist (131)
Season 6 Episode 131
Robert Perschmann describes himself as an anti-Cold War activist.
His political views started to form while serving in the US Air Force during the Vie…
5 years, 7 months ago
Susan - An American teaching English in East Germany (130)
Season 6 Episode 130
Susan Morrison is Professor of English at Texas State University. In the late 1980’s she taught in Rostock in the former GDR and then lived in West B…
5 years, 8 months ago
The KGB tried to recruit me (129)
Season 5 Episode 129
Hans de Vreij is a Dutch journalist who has worked in Berlin , Brussels, Geneva and Prague.
Whilst working at the United Nations in Geneva Hans was th…
5 years, 8 months ago