Cold War Conversations
Ian Sanders
Cold War Conversations
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 27 May 2022 : Marti Peterson was the first female CIA operative to be assigned to Moscow, probably the most challenging posting during the Cold War. Don't...
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 22 April 2022 : During the 1970s and 1980s, Arthur Grace travelled extensively behind the Iron Curtain, working primarily for news magazines. One of only a...
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 19 March 2022 : Maura McCormick was posted to Berlin as a Signals Intelligence voice interceptor (Russian). Her workplace was the Teufelsberg U.S....
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...
Wednesday 16 February 2022 : The phrase “history is human” was coined by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian David McCullough. He says “History is...
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...
Saturday 15 January 2022 : After service in the US Army during the Vietnam War Bob Wallace was recruited into the CIA. In the CIA his initial assignments were as a...
Cold War Conversations
Ian Sanders
Royal Military Police versus the Soviets (SOXMIS) in Cold War West Germany (241)
Keith Bailey Joined British Army at 16 in 1973. He was recruited into the Blues and Royals, (Household Cavalry) and served in West Germany...
The man who built his own nuclear bunker (240)
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...
Cold War number stations (239)
You might remember listening to short wave radio during the Cold War and coming across weird transmissions of metallic voices reciting...
Air warfare in the Cold War (238)
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...
Arrested by the KGB and taken to the Lubyanka prison (237)
Marti Peterson was the first female CIA operative to be assigned to Moscow, probably the most challenging posting during the Cold War. Don't...
The first female CIA officer in Cold War Moscow (236)
Marti Peterson was the first female CIA operative to be assigned to Moscow, probably the most challenging posting during the Cold War. Her...
The 1989 World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang, North Korea (235)
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...
Britain’s Cold War Human Chemical Warfare Experiments (234)
Ian Foulkes was exposed to the deadly nerve agent Sarin in 1983 at the Porton Down Chemical & Biological Defence Establishment., one...
Flying for the CIA's Air America in South East Asia (233)
In 1964, pilot Captain Hansen found himself unemployed. He began to send out feelers to several companies including one that had placed an...
A photojournalist in Cold War Eastern Europe (232)
During the 1970s and 1980s, Arthur Grace travelled extensively behind the Iron Curtain, working primarily for news magazines. One of only a...
Escaping from Cold War Romania (231)
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...
A Hungarian childhood in Cold War Romania (230)
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...
The shooting down of KAL007, the Able Archer exercise and the nuclear war scare of 1983 (229)
The year 1983 was one of the most dangerous in human history. While the Cuban crisis was exceptionally dangerous and both the United States...
Charlotte Philby talks about her grandfather Soviet spy Kim Philby & her book "Edith & Kim" (228)
In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. Kim Philby was a British intelligence officer and a double agent...
The first woman to graduate from French Commando school (227)
Maura McCormick was posted to Berlin as a Signals Intelligence voice interceptor (Russian). Her workplace was the Teufelsberg U.S....
Betrayed by comrades (226)
Liz Kohn has been researching Alice Glasnerová, who was imprisoned as part of the early Cold War Czechoslovak show trials known as the...
My father, the KGB spy (225)
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...
"Three, Two, one, detonation..." a Royal Navy nuclear test veteran remembers (224)
The British Nuclear Test Veterans Association (BNTVA) is the Charity for UK Nuclear Veterans and last year they very kindly invited me to...
The Stasi Poetry Circle (223)
In 1982 the East German Ministry for State Security is hunting for creative new weapons in the war against the class enemy – and their...
The start of the Cuban revolution & the launch of Apollo 8 (222)
The phrase “history is human” was coined by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian David McCullough. He says “History is...
Cold War British Army fighting tactics in West Germany (221)
Frank Baldwin was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1979 and served for ten years, rising to the rank of Major. The first battlefield...
The West Berlin village surrounded by the Berlin Wall (220)
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...
Tales of a West German football fan in the Soviet bloc (219)
You will remember Karl-Heinz from our episode 218 where he talked about being a signaller on the West German destroyer "Hamburg" in the...
Serving on the West German destroyer "Hamburg" (218)
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...
The CIA director responsible for creating spy devices (217)
After service in the US Army during the Vietnam War Bob Wallace was recruited into the CIA. In the CIA his initial assignments were as a...
