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Training to be a Cold War US Army Tank Commander (38)
Season 1 Episode 38
Today we’re talking to Neil Gussman who trained on the M60A1 tank in the 1970s. This was the standard main battle tank of the US Army from the 1960s …
7 years, 3 months ago
Antje - The Girl Behind The Berlin Wall (37)
Season 1 Episode 37
Today we're talking to Antje Arnold, author of “The Girl Behind The Wall” which tells the story of a girl growing up in East Germany in the 1980s.
Pat…
7 years, 3 months ago
Life in Cold War East Germany Photography Exhibition (36)
Season 1 Episode 36
Today we visit the Totally East: Life in East Germany Photography Exhibition.
Run-down façades, punks and ordinary workers: This exhibition shows the …
7 years, 3 months ago
The man who owns a Cold War Soviet submarine (35)
Season 2 Episode 35
We talk with John Sutton who owns a Foxtrot class Soviet Submarine moored in the middle of the River Medway in Kent.
This may seem an unlikely locatio…
7 years, 4 months ago
Samy - Life as a West Berliner in Cold War Berlin (34)
Season 2 Episode 34
Today we talk with Samy who as a native West Berliner describes growing up in the city during the 1970s and 80s.
He describes in detail the difference…
7 years, 4 months ago
Eileen - A British teacher living & working in Cold War East Berlin
Season 2 Episode 33
Eileen shares some great information with us of working & living in East Berlin, with some surprising details.
She also generously reveals details ab…
7 years, 4 months ago
Eileen - A British student living in Cold War East Germany (32)
Season 2 Episode 32
Today we speak with Eileen Ford-Price who was British student in the GDR in the 1980s in Rostock.
Before we start I’d like to thank all our Patreon wh…
7 years, 4 months ago
The Korean War in Britain (31)
Season 2 Episode 31
We speak with Doctor Grace Huxford, author of the Korean War in Britain – Citizenship, Selfhood and Forgetting.
The Korean War was known as the “forg…
7 years, 5 months ago
Leaving your family to go off to a nuclear war (30)
Season 1 Episode 30
Dave Arnold was the Chief Observer at a Royal Observer Corps nuclear monitoring post.
I made a fascinating visit with Dave to the Rushton Spencer Roya…
7 years, 5 months ago
Cold War Living History Event - The Soviet Threat (29)
Season 1 Episode 29
This episode takes place at a Living History event in and around the Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker museum in deepest Cheshire in the UK. I can hea…
7 years, 5 months ago