Cold War Conversations
Ian Sanders
Cold War Conversations
Ian Sanders
Saturday 21 November 2020 : Today we speak with Ian Ballantyne, the author of “Hunter Killers”, also known as “Undersea Warriors” in the United States.Hunter...
Saturday 14 November 2020 : Today we speak with Richard Crowder, the author of “Détente – the chance to end the Cold War”.Help support the podcast buy the book...
Saturday 07 November 2020 : Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of The Cambridge Spies, brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray...
Saturday 31 October 2020 : At 2 a.m. on 10 March 1983, 12 year old Carmen Bugan was home alone after her father had left for Bucharest. That afternoon, Carmen returned...
Friday 23 October 2020 : In this second episode with Don Snedeker we talk to him about his time after his tour of Vietnam when he served in West Germany. From 1974...
Friday 16 October 2020 : Today we’re speaking with Barry Mullen who was a Navigator on the legendary Royal Air Force bomber, the Vulcan. Barry served during the...
Tuesday 13 October 2020 : In this bonus episode, we talk again with Paul Grant, author of "Coercion" the fourth book about the Schultz family who live in Berlin. ...
Friday 09 October 2020 : This is the first of two episodes we have following Don Snedeker’s experiences through the Cold War. In this episode, we hear about his...
Friday 02 October 2020 : Today’s episode is brought to you by Osprey publishing and we’re speaking with Michael Napier, the author of “In Cold War Skies –...
Friday 25 September 2020 : This is part 2 of our chat with Jack Barsky who spent ten years as an undercover KGB agent in the United States.He is the longest surviving...
Friday 18 September 2020 : If you’ve seen the TV drama series, “The Americans” you’ll be fascinated by this episode. Albrecht Dittrich was an East German...
Friday 11 September 2020 : This is the 2nd episode with Trevor Barnes, the author of “Dead Doubles, a new book on the Portland Spy Ring, one of the most infamous...
Friday 04 September 2020 : In this episode we talk with Trevor Barnes, the author of “Dead Doubles, a new book on the Portland Spy Ring, one of the most infamous...
Friday 28 August 2020 : This is the 2nd part of our conversation with Major General Sir Robert Corbett, KCVO, CB who was the last Commandant of the British Sector...
Friday 21 August 2020 : Major General Sir Robert Corbett, KCVO, CB was the last Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin.We start his story with the description...
Friday 14 August 2020 : Born in Communist Czechoslovakia, Eva Caletkova has written an honest and unflinching account of her childhood in Bratislava.Eva’s parents...
Friday 07 August 2020 : Werner Stiller’s spectacular defection to the West in 1979 inflicted one of the Cold War’s most serious blows to the Stasi.At the time...
Friday 31 July 2020 : Tim Phillips travelled the route of the former Iron Curtain from deep inside the arctic circle to the meeting point in Azerbaijan, Armenia...
Friday 24 July 2020 : Vashi Nedomanský is the son of Czechoslovak former legendary ice hockey forward Václav Nedomanský aka “Big Ned” who is best known...
Friday 17 July 2020 : Robert Perschmann describes himself as an anti-Cold War activist.His political views started to form while serving in the US Air Force...
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...
Cold War Conversations
Ian Sanders
Cold War Royal Navy submarine missions (150)
Today we speak with Ian Ballantyne, the author of “Hunter Killers”, also known as “Undersea Warriors” in the United States.Hunter...
Détente – the chance to end the Cold War (149)
Today we speak with Richard Crowder, the author of “Détente – the chance to end the Cold War”.Help support the podcast buy the book...
Guy Burgess and the Cambridge Spy Ring (148)
Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of The Cambridge Spies, brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray...
A Childhood under the eye of the Secret Police (147)
At 2 a.m. on 10 March 1983, 12 year old Carmen Bugan was home alone after her father had left for Bucharest. That afternoon, Carmen returned...
Don - 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fulda (146)
In this second episode with Don Snedeker we talk to him about his time after his tour of Vietnam when he served in West Germany. From 1974...
Navigator aboard the Vulcan nuclear bomber (145)
Today we’re speaking with Barry Mullen who was a Navigator on the legendary Royal Air Force bomber, the Vulcan. Barry served during the...
1962 Berlin fiction - author interview (144)
In this bonus episode, we talk again with Paul Grant, author of "Coercion" the fourth book about the Schultz family who live in Berlin. ...
Don - Vietnam war Armoured Cavalry Platoon Leader (143)
This is the first of two episodes we have following Don Snedeker’s experiences through the Cold War. In this episode, we hear about his...
In Cold War Skies – NATO and Soviet airpower 1949-89 (142)
Today’s episode is brought to you by Osprey publishing and we’re speaking with Michael Napier, the author of “In Cold War Skies –...
I was a deep cover KGB spy Part 2 (141)
This is part 2 of our chat with Jack Barsky who spent ten years as an undercover KGB agent in the United States.He is the longest surviving...
I was a deep cover KGB spy Part 1 (140)
If you’ve seen the TV drama series, “The Americans” you’ll be fascinated by this episode. Albrecht Dittrich was an East German...
Portland Spy Ring Part 2 (139)
This is the 2nd episode with Trevor Barnes, the author of “Dead Doubles, a new book on the Portland Spy Ring, one of the most infamous...
Portland Spy Ring Part 1 (138)
In this episode we talk with Trevor Barnes, the author of “Dead Doubles, a new book on the Portland Spy Ring, one of the most infamous...
The Last British Commandant in West Berlin Part 2 (137)
This is the 2nd part of our conversation with Major General Sir Robert Corbett, KCVO, CB who was the last Commandant of the British Sector...
The Last British Commandant in West Berlin Part 1 (136)
Major General Sir Robert Corbett, KCVO, CB was the last Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin.We start his story with the description...
Eva - A Czechoslovak Childhood (135)
Born in Communist Czechoslovakia, Eva Caletkova has written an honest and unflinching account of her childhood in Bratislava.Eva’s parents...
My father was a Stasi spy... (134)
Werner Stiller’s spectacular defection to the West in 1979 inflicted one of the Cold War’s most serious blows to the Stasi.At the time...
Following the Former Iron Curtain (133)
Tim Phillips travelled the route of the former Iron Curtain from deep inside the arctic circle to the meeting point in Azerbaijan, Armenia...
Czechoslovak hockey star defects to Canada (132)
Vashi Nedomanský is the son of Czechoslovak former legendary ice hockey forward Václav Nedomanský aka “Big Ned” who is best known...
Robert - The anti Cold War activist (131)
Robert Perschmann describes himself as an anti-Cold War activist.His political views started to form while serving in the US Air Force...
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...
