Ian Sanders
Friday 24 June 2022 : Keith Bailey Joined British Army at 16 in 1973. He was recruited into the Blues and Royals, (Household Cavalry) and served in West Germany...
Friday 17 June 2022 : Graham Bate was 30-year-old Civil Servant when he built his own nuclear bunker in the garden of his rural home 20 miles outside Hull in the...
Friday 10 June 2022 : You might remember listening to short wave radio during the Cold War and coming across weird transmissions of metallic voices reciting...
Friday 03 June 2022 : The Cold War years were a period of unprecedented peace in Europe, yet they also saw a number of localised but nonetheless very intense wars...
Friday 20 May 2022 : Marti Peterson was the first female CIA operative to be assigned to Moscow, probably the most challenging posting during the Cold War. Her...
Friday 13 May 2022 : The 13th World Festival of Youth and Students was held from 1–8 July 1989 in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. It was the largest...
Friday 06 May 2022 : Ian Foulkes was exposed to the deadly nerve agent Sarin in 1983 at the Porton Down Chemical & Biological Defence Establishment., one...
Friday 29 April 2022 : In 1964, pilot Captain Hansen found himself unemployed. He began to send out feelers to several companies including one that had placed an...
Friday 15 April 2022 : Zsolt Akos Pall was 17 when he decided to flee Cold War Romania for a better life in the West. It’s a heart-warming story of the...
Friday 08 April 2022 : Zsolt Akos Pall was born in a small town in the Hungarian speaking part of Romania. For ordinary people, life in Romania in the 1980s was...
Friday 01 April 2022 : The year 1983 was one of the most dangerous in human history. While the Cuban crisis was exceptionally dangerous and both the United States...
Saturday 26 March 2022 : In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. Kim Philby was a British intelligence officer and a double agent...
Saturday 12 March 2022 : Liz Kohn has been researching Alice Glasnerová, who was imprisoned as part of the early Cold War Czechoslovak show trials known as the...
Saturday 05 March 2022 : In 1978, Ieva Lesinska was a university student in Soviet Latvia with dreams of becoming a writer. She had just spent a heady month in New...
Saturday 26 February 2022 : The British Nuclear Test Veterans Association (BNTVA) is the Charity for UK Nuclear Veterans and last year they very kindly invited me to...
Saturday 19 February 2022 : In 1982 the East German Ministry for State Security is hunting for creative new weapons in the war against the class enemy – and their...
Saturday 12 February 2022 : Frank Baldwin was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1979 and served for ten years, rising to the rank of Major. The first battlefield...
Saturday 05 February 2022 : When the Cold War split Berlin in half, between East and West, one neighbourhood was trapped in the middle and became a symbol of Cold War...
Saturday 29 January 2022 : You will remember Karl-Heinz from our episode 218 where he talked about being a signaller on the West German destroyer "Hamburg" in the...
Saturday 22 January 2022 : Karl-Heinz served in the Bundesmarine as a Signalman on the West German destroyer "Hamburg" in the late 70s. He talks of his training, his...
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Ian Sanders
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