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Experiencing the Cold War via virtual reality (128)
Season 5 Episode 128
How can we go beyond the films, books, and photos to learn more about the Cold War? Films are certainly evocative and certainly inform but how can we…
5 years, 8 months ago
Cold War US Army Intelligence Analyst (127)
Season 5 Episode 127
Bill was a US Army Intelligence Analyst. In 1986 he was assigned to Order of Battle Branch, Soviet Section where for three years he studied the Warsa…
5 years, 8 months ago
Reporting the 1989 Romanian Revolution (126)
Season 5 Episode 126
We talk again to Mark Brayne who worked as a Reuters & BBC journalist during the Cold War. This time we are in Romania in December 1989 where riots, …
5 years, 9 months ago
A British Journalist under Stasi Surveillance (125)
Season 5 Episode 125
We talk to Mark Brayne again in a wide ranging chat about his career as a Reuters & BBC journalist including details of his Stasi file, his time in t…
5 years, 9 months ago
Cold War Britain & The Bomb (124)
Season 5 Episode 124
In Britain and the Bomb Bill Nuttall considers Britain's national journey from Empire to Europe and the transition of British nuclear weapons from th…
5 years, 9 months ago
A UK Journalist in the Soviet Union & GDR (123)
Season 5 Episode 123
Mark Brayne studied in Moscow 71-72, travelling the country with fellow UK students and spending silly amounts of time in the bathhouses with salted …
5 years, 9 months ago
A 23 year old Cold War nuclear missile commander (122)
Season 5 Episode 122
Scott was a Pershing 2 nuclear missile Fire Control Officer which meant he was responsible for the launch of the missile. Aged 23 he was made platoon…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Last Days of Cold War East Germany (121)
Season 5 Episode 121
Michael Paterson first visited East Germany just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and provides a vivid account of its subsequent decline and fall du…
5 years, 10 months ago
Special Forces Berlin - Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990 (120)
Season 5 Episode 120
James Stejskal served for 23 years with US Special Forces, including two tours in Berlin. Special Forces Berlin was a small detachment of 100 highly …
5 years, 10 months ago
Alan - Working in the GDR and the Soviet Union (119)
Season 5 Episode 119
Alan Baker worked and studied in the GDR and the USSR from the 1970s through to the end of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the Russian Federati…
5 years, 10 months ago