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Nuking the Moon & Other Cold War Intelligence Schemes & Military Plots left on the Drawing Board (68)
Season 3 Episode 68
We talk with Vince Houghton – Curator of the International Spy Museum who has just written a new book called “Nuking the Moon & Other Intelligence Sc…
6 years, 8 months ago
Janina - Life in a Cold War East German village near the Polish border (67)
Season 3 Episode 67
Todays episode is different, the interviewer is not me, but one of our listeners who contacted me to help produce content for the podcast. This gave …
6 years, 8 months ago
Cold War fiction - Liberation Square (66)
Season 3 Episode 66
Gareth Rubin is an author and journalist and today we’re talking to him about his latest novel, Liberation Square set in a Soviet occupied UK in the …
6 years, 9 months ago
A tour of Cold War airbase RAF Upper Heyford (65)
Season 3 Episode 65
In this episode we visit RAF Upper Heyford for a photography tour for Cold War enthusiasts …
The episode is in three parts, the first is some audio fr…
6 years, 9 months ago
Arrested by the Stasi on an East Berlin day trip (64)
Season 3 Episode 64
Todd Anton was arrested by the Stasi while on a day trip to East Berlin and gives a raw and powerful account of his arrest, interrogation and eventua…
6 years, 9 months ago
Flying the Cold War CF-104 Starfighter over Germany (63)
Season 3 Episode 63
Laurie Hawn is a retired Canadian Member of Parliament and former career fighter pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Laurie tells the story of lo…
6 years, 9 months ago
Disarming Doomsday - The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima (62)
Season 3 Episode 62
In this episode we speak with Dr Becky-Alexis Martin who is a lecturer in Cultural and Political Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University and …
6 years, 10 months ago
A Cold War US Soldier defects to East Germany (61)
Season 3 Episode 61
What could make a privileged 24-year-old American serving in the US Army in Germany in 1952 to swim across the Danube River to what was then the Sovi…
6 years, 10 months ago
Working at the British Embassy in Cold War Bucharest (60)
Season 2 Episode 60
In this episode we speak with Colin Munro who has had an extensive career with the British Diplomatic Service.
Today we speak about his time as Head …
6 years, 10 months ago
A 1980s trip on the Trans Siberian Railway (59)
Season 2 Episode 59
In this episode we speak with Mark Wiegers who travelled on the Trans-Siberian Railway in the late 1980s. His story tells of trouble with officialdom…
6 years, 10 months ago