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Cold War Warsaw Bureau Chief for Time Magazine 1981-83 (118)
Season 5 Episode 118
Richard Hornik was the Warsaw Bureau Chief for Time Magazine from 1981-1983. He carried out numerous interviews with Solidarity Free Trade Union lead…
5 years, 10 months ago
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War (117)
Season 5 Episode 117
The Cold War got colder in the early 1980s and the relationship between the two military superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, each of whom had …
5 years, 11 months ago
Boarding Soviet Ships with the Cold War Danish Navy (116)
Season 5 Episode 116
Lieutenant Commander Jørgen Brandsborg joined the Danish Navy in the 1980s. He met the Soviets up close and personal while serving in the North Atlan…
5 years, 11 months ago
Taking A Holiday in Cold War Albania (115)
Season 5 Episode 115
In early 1989 attention being paid to Albania in England by the English media because the England football team had recently travelled to Tirana for …
5 years, 11 months ago
Life as a British Soldier in Cold War West Berlin (114)
Season 5 Episode 114
Anthony enlisted in the British Army in 1987 and after 9 months he was posted to West Berlin.
He tells the story of life as a Private in Berlin from t…
5 years, 11 months ago
Railway Encounters in Cold War Eastern Europe (113)
Season 4 Episode 113
Charlie Flowers was 18 in 1988. He travelled by train across a divided Eastern Europe that was starting to show signs of the changes that manifested …
6 years ago
Nuclear War in Cold War Britain (112)
Season 5 Episode 112
For almost five decades, the United Kingdom made plans for a nuclear attack that never came. To help their citizens, civil servants and armed forces …
6 years ago
Serving in the Cold War British Army Intelligence Corps during the 1960s & 70s (111)
Season 4 Episode 111
Harry served as a soldier in the Intelligence Corps in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s.
His role was that of an Intelligence and Security Operator, foc…
6 years ago
Bonus - Dr Strangelove Film Screening in a Nuclear Bunker (110)
Season 4 Episode 110
Today is a short bonus episode I recorded at the weekend while at a film showing of Dr Strangelove in a former UK Regional Seat of Government Bunker …
6 years ago
Stasi Infiltration of the Cold War East German Church (109)
Season 4 Episode 109
When the Berlin Wall came down, the files of the East German secret police, the much-dreaded Stasi, were opened and read. And among the shocking stor…
6 years ago