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Watching Socialism: The Cold War Television Revolution in Eastern Europe (78)
Season 3 Episode 78
Today we’re at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles at their Watching Socialism exhibition. Organized in collaboration with British-Slovenian media histor…
6 years, 6 months ago
Defending the Cold War Pershing 2 nuclear missile (77)
Season 3 Episode 77
Phil Logan served in the US Army from 1986-1991. He went through infantry school at Fort Benning, Georgia was sent to Germany and assigned to the gro…
6 years, 6 months ago
The early days of the Cold War US Space program and origins of GPS (76)
Season 3 Episode 76
Richard Easton is the co-author of GPS Declassified which examines the development of GPS or Sat Nav as some of us call it now, from its secret, Cold…
6 years, 6 months ago
Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe (75)
Season 3 Episode 75
Today we’re talking to Alison Lewis, a professor in German at the University of Melbourne.
She is the author of several books, including one in German…
6 years, 7 months ago
A visit to World War 2 and Cold War airbase RAF Burtonwood (74)
Season 3 Episode 74
I’m here today at the RAF Burtonwood Heritage Centre, near Warrington in the UK. Based on what was once the largest and longest-running military airb…
6 years, 7 months ago
Breaking the news of the 1991 Soviet Coup (73)
Season 3 Episode 73
We speak today with Alistair Coleman who joined BBC Monitoring as a technician in 1989, just in time for the Berlin Wall.
He was on a console night s…
6 years, 7 months ago
Chasing the Moon - The Apollo 11 Moon Landing (72)
Season 3 Episode 72
In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on …
6 years, 7 months ago
Stasi Infiltration of the Prenzlauer Berg Underground Literary Scene (71)
Season 3 Episode 71
In this episode we speak with Dr Alison Lewis is Professor of German in the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne, Austral…
6 years, 8 months ago
Secret Cold War Dutch submarine missions (70)
Season 3 Episode 70
During the Cold War, six Dutch submarines secretly gathered intelligence about the Soviet Navy. Only a handful of people outside the Royal Netherland…
6 years, 8 months ago
A US Soldier defects to Cold War East Germany – Part 2 (69)
Season 3 Episode 69
We continue the story of Victor Grossman the US Army soldier who defected to East Germany. He tells us of his life in the GDR, his close friendship w…
6 years, 8 months ago