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Cold War Conversations - "vivid & compelling" The NY Times

Author: Ian Sanders
Feed episode count: 467
Official site: http://www.coldwarconversations.com
RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NSR5326520675
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Summary

"Listening to even one episode of "Cold War Conversations" will make this sprawling, potentially intimidating period of history feel vivid and compelling." The New York Times Experience the Cold War like never before with Cold War Conversations — an award-winning podcast. Each week, host Ian Sanders brings you raw, firsthand accounts from the people who lived through one of history’s most tense and transformative eras — soldiers, spies, civilians, and more. These aren’t stories from textbooks. They’re unfiltered voices from the frontlines of history — emotional, gripping, and deeply human. This is Cold War history, told from the inside out. We cover subjects such as spies, spying, the Iron Curtain, nuclear weapons, warfare, tanks, jet aircraft, fighters, bombers, transport aircraft, aviation, culture, and politics. We also cover personalities such as Fidel Castro, JFK, Ronald Reagan, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Konstantin Chernenko, Margaret Thatcher, John F. Kennedy, Josef Stalin, Richard Nixon, Lech Walesa, General Jaruzelski, Nicolae Ceaușescu. Other subjects include Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, West…

Episodes

Jul 31, 2026 · not_requested

Growing Up Grey: Childhood in Cold War Romania (367)

Duration seconds: 2523
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode467

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Jul 24, 2026 · not_requested

Defection, Spies and the Shadow of Georgi Markov (466)

Duration seconds: 2495
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode466

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Jul 17, 2026 · not_requested

My Father - The Enemy of the People: A Bulgarian Family’s Cold War Story (465)

Duration seconds: 3541
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode465

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Jul 10, 2026 · not_requested

Face to Face with the Srebrenica War Criminals (464)

Duration seconds: 4362
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode464

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Jul 3, 2026 · not_requested

Inside a Cold War USAF Fighter Squadron (463)

Duration seconds: 4197
Source: http://www.coldwarconversations.com/episode463

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Jun 26, 2026 · not_requested

The Cambridge Five - new files reveal untold stories (462)

Duration seconds: 3931
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode462/

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Jun 19, 2026 · not_requested

Malta & West Germany - Memories of an RAF Childhood Abroad (461)

Duration seconds: 3940
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode461

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Jun 12, 2026 · not_requested

Cold War Football: A History in Ten Matches (460)

Duration seconds: 3171
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode460

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Jun 5, 2026 · not_requested

CIA and MI6 Covert Action in Communist Albania at the Dawn of the Cold War (459)

Duration seconds: 4013
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode459

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May 29, 2026 · not_requested

On the edge of war: A V-Force pilot during the Cuban Missile Crisis (458)

Duration seconds: 4686
Source: http://www.coldwarconversations.com/episode458

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May 22, 2026 · not_requested

Conscripted to a West German Nuclear Missile Unit (457)

Duration seconds: 4404
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode457

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May 15, 2026 · not_requested

Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Cold War Disinformation Front Line (456)

Duration seconds: 3213
Source: http://www.coldwarconversations.com/episode456

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May 8, 2026 · not_requested

30 Miles from the North Korean Border - A US Military Childhood (455)

Duration seconds: 2820
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode455

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May 1, 2026 · not_requested

The JFK Assassination: The human narratives behind one of history's most scrutinised events (454)

Duration seconds: 5071
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode454/

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Apr 24, 2026 · not_requested

Chornobyl: Anatomy of a Catastrophe (453)

Duration seconds: 4412
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode453

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Apr 17, 2026 · not_requested

From East Berlin to West Ireland (452)

Duration seconds: 5649
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode452

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Apr 10, 2026 · not_requested

Guarding the Wire at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (451)

Duration seconds: 4137
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode451/

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Apr 3, 2026 · not_requested

Soviet - Afghan War, Mujahideen Resistance: The Brutal Fight for Zhawar (450)

Duration seconds: 3636
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode450

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Mar 28, 2026 · not_requested

Former MI5 & MI6 Legal Director Looks Back at His Time in Cold War Berlin (449)

Duration seconds: 4667
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode449

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Mar 21, 2026 · not_requested

An officer in The Internal Troops of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs (448)

Duration seconds: 2931
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode448

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Mar 14, 2026 · not_requested

Growing up in Soviet Ukraine in the 1960s and 70s (447)

Duration seconds: 2956
Source: http://www.coldwarconversations.com/episode447

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Mar 7, 2026 · not_requested

Secret Warriors - British Submarines during the Cold War (446)

Duration seconds: 4525
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode446/

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Feb 28, 2026 · not_requested

American MiG Pilot: Inside the Top Secret USAF "Red Eagles" MiG Squadron Part 2 (445)

Duration seconds: 2900
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode445/

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Feb 21, 2026 · not_requested

High School Student to the Top Secret USAF Red Eagles Soviet MIG Squadron Part 1 (444)

Duration seconds: 3011
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode444/

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Feb 14, 2026 · not_requested

The Moscow Playbook: How Russia Used, Abused, and Transformed Sports in the Hunt for Power (443)

Duration seconds: 3694
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode443

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Feb 7, 2026 · not_requested

Chasing Rogue Nukes after the Fall of the Soviet Union (442)

Duration seconds: 3129
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode442/

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Jan 31, 2026 · not_requested

Dead Drops and Disguises - A Female CIA Officer in 1980s Moscow (441)

Duration seconds: 2960
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode441

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Jan 24, 2026 · not_requested

Cold War British Army "stay behinds" - Live at the Imperial War Museum London (440)

Duration seconds: 3263
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode440

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Jan 17, 2026 · not_requested

Planning an Escape for 13 Years: How One Family Outsmarted the Iron Curtain (439)

Duration seconds: 4991
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode439

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Jan 10, 2026 · not_requested

Why did the USA invade Grenada in 1983? (438)

Duration seconds: 3022
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode438/

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Jan 3, 2026 · not_requested

When Terrorism Went Global: Plane Hijackings and Violence in the 1970s (437)

Duration seconds: 3651
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode437/

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Dec 27, 2025 · not_requested

When East German Soldiers Dreamed of Flying Over the Wall (436)

Duration seconds: 4499
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode436/⁠

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Dec 20, 2025 · not_requested

Cold War Kid to Space Age Engineer via President Kennedy's last flight alive & RAF Upper Heyford (435)

Duration seconds: 5231
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode435/

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Dec 13, 2025 · not_requested

Eyes at the Edge of the Iron Curtain - Life in a 1960s British Reconnaissance Regiment (434)

Duration seconds: 3781
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode434

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Dec 6, 2025 · not_requested

What was Cold War British Army Conscription really like? (433)

Duration seconds: 3562
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode433/

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Nov 27, 2025 · not_requested

The Berlin Airlift - Victories, Myths, and the Berlin Blockade (432)

Duration seconds: 4115
Source: https://coldwarconversations.com/episode432/

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