Cold War Conversations
Ian Sanders
Cold War Conversations
Ian Sanders
Saturday 11 July 2020 : Susan Morrison is Professor of English at Texas State University. In the late 1980’s she taught in Rostock in the former GDR and then...
Friday 03 July 2020 : Hans de Vreij is a Dutch journalist who has worked in Berlin , Brussels, Geneva and Prague.Whilst working at the United Nations in Geneva...
Friday 26 June 2020 : How can we go beyond the films, books, and photos to learn more about the Cold War? Films are certainly evocative and certainly inform but...
Friday 19 June 2020 : Bill was a US Army Intelligence Analyst. In 1986 he was assigned to Order of Battle Branch, Soviet Section where for three years he studied...
Friday 12 June 2020 : We talk again to Mark Brayne who worked as a Reuters & BBC journalist during the Cold War. This time we are in Romania in December 1989...
Friday 05 June 2020 : We talk to Mark Brayne again in a wide ranging chat about his career as a Reuters & BBC journalist including details of his Stasi file,...
Friday 29 May 2020 : In Britain and the Bomb Bill Nuttall considers Britain's national journey from Empire to Europe and the transition of British nuclear...
Friday 22 May 2020 : Mark Brayne studied in Moscow 71-72, travelling the country with fellow UK students and spending silly amounts of time in the bathhouses...
Friday 15 May 2020 : Scott was a Pershing 2 nuclear missile Fire Control Officer which meant he was responsible for the launch of the missile. Aged 23 he was...
Friday 08 May 2020 : Michael Paterson first visited East Germany just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and provides a vivid account of its subsequent decline...
Friday 01 May 2020 : James Stejskal served for 23 years with US Special Forces, including two tours in Berlin. Special Forces Berlin was a small detachment of...
Friday 24 April 2020 : Alan Baker worked and studied in the GDR and the USSR from the 1970s through to the end of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the Russian...
Friday 17 April 2020 : Richard Hornik was the Warsaw Bureau Chief for Time Magazine from 1981-1983. He carried out numerous interviews with Solidarity Free Trade...
Friday 10 April 2020 : 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...
Friday 03 April 2020 : Lieutenant Commander Jørgen Brandsborg joined the Danish Navy in the 1980s. He met the Soviets up close and personal while serving in the...
Saturday 28 March 2020 : In early 1989 attention being paid to Albania in England by the English media because the England football team had recently travelled to...
Saturday 21 March 2020 : 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...
Saturday 14 March 2020 : 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...
Saturday 07 March 2020 : For almost five decades, the United Kingdom made plans for a nuclear attack that never came. To help their citizens, civil servants and...
Saturday 29 February 2020 : 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...
Wednesday 26 February 2020 : 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...
Saturday 22 February 2020 : 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...
Saturday 15 February 2020 : Our guest today is Marc Voss the Founder and Executive Director of The Regimes Museum which is the culmination of an effort to collect,...
Saturday 08 February 2020 : Regional seats of government or RSGs were a UK solution to disperse the machinery of government into the provinces, where there would be a...
Saturday 01 February 2020 : What was it like to be the first western pilot to fly the most advanced Soviet fighter aircraft? At the 1989 Abbotsford Air Show, during the...
Cold War Conversations
Ian Sanders
Susan - An American teaching English in East Germany (130)
Susan Morrison is Professor of English at Texas State University. In the late 1980’s she taught in Rostock in the former GDR and then...
The KGB tried to recruit me (129)
Hans de Vreij is a Dutch journalist who has worked in Berlin , Brussels, Geneva and Prague.Whilst working at the United Nations in Geneva...
Experiencing the Cold War via virtual reality (128)
How can we go beyond the films, books, and photos to learn more about the Cold War? Films are certainly evocative and certainly inform but...
US Army Intelligence Analyst (127)
Bill was a US Army Intelligence Analyst. In 1986 he was assigned to Order of Battle Branch, Soviet Section where for three years he studied...
Reporting the 1989 Romanian Revolution (126)
We talk again to Mark Brayne who worked as a Reuters & BBC journalist during the Cold War. This time we are in Romania in December 1989...
A British Journalist under Stasi Surveillance (125)
We talk to Mark Brayne again in a wide ranging chat about his career as a Reuters & BBC journalist including details of his Stasi file,...
Britain & The Bomb (124)
In Britain and the Bomb Bill Nuttall considers Britain's national journey from Empire to Europe and the transition of British nuclear...
A UK Journalist in the Soviet Union & GDR (123)
Mark Brayne studied in Moscow 71-72, travelling the country with fellow UK students and spending silly amounts of time in the bathhouses...
A 23 year old nuclear missile commander (122)
Scott was a Pershing 2 nuclear missile Fire Control Officer which meant he was responsible for the launch of the missile. Aged 23 he was...
The Last Days of East Germany (121)
Michael Paterson first visited East Germany just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and provides a vivid account of its subsequent decline...
Special Forces Berlin - Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990 (120)
James Stejskal served for 23 years with US Special Forces, including two tours in Berlin. Special Forces Berlin was a small detachment of...
Alan - Working in the GDR and the Soviet Union (119)
Alan Baker worked and studied in the GDR and the USSR from the 1970s through to the end of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the Russian...
Warsaw Bureau Chief for Time Magazine 1981-83 (118)
Richard Hornik was the Warsaw Bureau Chief for Time Magazine from 1981-1983. He carried out numerous interviews with Solidarity Free Trade...
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War (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...
Boarding Soviet Ships with the Danish Navy (116)
Lieutenant Commander Jørgen Brandsborg joined the Danish Navy in the 1980s. He met the Soviets up close and personal while serving in the...
Taking A Holiday in Cold War Albania (115)
In early 1989 attention being paid to Albania in England by the English media because the England football team had recently travelled to...
Life as a British Soldier in West Berlin (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...
Railway Encounters in Eastern Europe (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...
Nuclear War in the UK (112)
For almost five decades, the United Kingdom made plans for a nuclear attack that never came. To help their citizens, civil servants and...
Serving in the British Army Intelligence Corps during the 1960s & 70s (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...
Bonus - Dr Strangelove Film Screening in a Nuclear Bunker (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...
Stasi Infiltration of the East German Church (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...
The Regimes Museum (108)
Our guest today is Marc Voss the Founder and Executive Director of The Regimes Museum which is the culmination of an effort to collect,...
Assigned to a Government Nuclear Bunker (107)
Regional seats of government or RSGs were a UK solution to disperse the machinery of government into the provinces, where there would be a...
The First Western Pilot to Fly the Soviet MIG 29 Fighter (106)
What was it like to be the first western pilot to fly the most advanced Soviet fighter aircraft? At the 1989 Abbotsford Air Show, during the...
