# Cold War Conversations - "vivid & compelling" The NY Times Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119.md RSS feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NSR5326520675 Official site: http://www.coldwarconversations.com Author: Ian Sanders Episodes: 460 ## Resource Experience the Cold War like never before with Cold War Conversations — an award-winning podcast recommended by The New York Times. 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 Berlin, East Berlin, Cuban missile Crisis, Berlin Airlift, Bay of Pigs, SALT, Perestroika, Space Race, superpower, USSR, Soviet Union, DDR, G… ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119.md ## Episodes - [Cold War Football: A History in Ten Matches (460)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/cold-war-football-a-history-in-ten-matches-460) — 2026-06-12T23:00:00+00:00 - [CIA and MI6 Covert Action in Communist Albania at the Dawn of the Cold War (459)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/cia-and-mi6-covert-action-in-communist-albania-at-the-dawn-of-the-cold-war-459) — 2026-06-05T23:05:00+00:00 - [On the edge of war: A V-Force pilot during the Cuban Missile Crisis (458)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/on-the-edge-of-war-a-v-force-pilot-during-the-cuban-missile-crisis-458) — 2026-05-29T23:00:00+00:00 - [Conscripted to a West German Nuclear Missile Unit (457)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/conscripted-to-a-west-german-nuclear-missile-unit-457) — 2026-05-22T23:00:00+00:00 - [Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Cold War Disinformation Front Line (456)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/fakers-a-top-secret-tale-of-phantoms-and-forgeries-on-the-cold-war-disinformation-front-line-456) — 2026-05-15T23:00:00+00:00 - [30 Miles from the North Korean Border - A US Military Childhood (455)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/30-miles-from-the-north-korean-border-a-us-military-childhood-455) — 2026-05-08T23:00:00+00:00 - [The JFK Assassination: The human narratives behind one of history's most scrutinised events (454)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/the-jfk-assassination-the-human-narratives-behind-one-of-history-s-most-scrutinised-events-454) — 2026-05-01T23:00:00+00:00 - [Chornobyl: Anatomy of a Catastrophe (453)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/chornobyl-anatomy-of-a-catastrophe-453) — 2026-04-24T23:00:00+00:00 - [From East Berlin to West Ireland (452)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/from-east-berlin-to-west-ireland-452) — 2026-04-17T23:35:00+00:00 - [Guarding the Wire at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (451)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/guarding-the-wire-at-guantanamo-bay-cuba-451) — 2026-04-10T23:30:00+00:00 - [Soviet - Afghan War, Mujahideen Resistance: The Brutal Fight for Zhawar (450)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/soviet-afghan-war-mujahideen-resistance-the-brutal-fight-for-zhawar-450) — 2026-04-03T23:00:00+00:00 - [Former MI5 & MI6 Legal Director Looks Back at His Time in Cold War Berlin (449)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/former-mi5-mi6-legal-director-looks-back-at-his-time-in-cold-war-berlin-449) — 2026-03-28T00:00:00+00:00 - [An officer in The Internal Troops of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs (448)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/an-officer-in-the-internal-troops-of-the-soviet-ministry-of-internal-affairs-448) — 2026-03-21T00:00:00+00:00 - [Growing up in Soviet Ukraine in the 1960s and 70s (447)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/growing-up-in-soviet-ukraine-in-the-1960s-and-70s-447) — 2026-03-14T00:00:00+00:00 - [Secret Warriors - British Submarines during the Cold War (446)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/secret-warriors-british-submarines-during-the-cold-war-446) — 2026-03-07T00:00:00+00:00 - [American MiG Pilot: Inside the Top Secret USAF "Red Eagles" MiG Squadron Part 2 (445)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/american-mig-pilot-inside-the-top-secret-usaf-red-eagles-mig-squadron-part-2-445) — 2026-02-28T00:00:00+00:00 - [High School Student to the Top Secret USAF Red Eagles Soviet MIG Squadron Part 1 (444)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/high-school-student-to-the-top-secret-usaf-red-eagles-soviet-mig-squadron-part-1-444) — 2026-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 - [The Moscow Playbook: How Russia Used, Abused, and Transformed Sports in the Hunt for Power (443)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/the-moscow-playbook-how-russia-used-abused-and-transformed-sports-in-the-hunt-for-power-443) — 2026-02-14T00:00:00+00:00 - [Chasing Rogue Nukes after the Fall of the Soviet Union (442)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/chasing-rogue-nukes-after-the-fall-of-the-soviet-union-442) — 2026-02-07T00:00:00+00:00 - [Dead Drops and Disguises - A Female CIA Officer in 1980s Moscow (441)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/dead-drops-and-disguises-a-female-cia-officer-in-1980s-moscow-441) — 2026-01-31T00:00:00+00:00 - [Cold War British Army "stay behinds" - Live at the Imperial War Museum London (440)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/cold-war-british-army-stay-behinds-live-at-the-imperial-war-museum-london-440) — 2026-01-24T00:00:00+00:00 - [Planning an Escape for 13 Years: How One Family Outsmarted the Iron Curtain (439)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/planning-an-escape-for-13-years-how-one-family-outsmarted-the-iron-curtain-439) — 2026-01-17T00:00:00+00:00 - [Why did the USA invade Grenada in 1983? (438)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/why-did-the-usa-invade-grenada-in-1983-438) — 2026-01-10T00:00:00+00:00 - [When Terrorism Went Global: Plane Hijackings and Violence in the 1970s (437)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/when-terrorism-went-global-plane-hijackings-and-violence-in-the-1970s-437) — 2026-01-03T00:00:00+00:00 - [When East German Soldiers Dreamed of Flying Over the Wall (436)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/when-east-german-soldiers-dreamed-of-flying-over-the-wall-436) — 2025-12-27T00:00:00+00:00 - [Cold War Kid to Space Age Engineer via President Kennedy's last flight alive & RAF Upper Heyford (435)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/cold-war-kid-to-space-age-engineer-via-president-kennedy-s-last-flight-alive-raf-upper-heyford-435) — 2025-12-20T00:00:00+00:00 - [Eyes at the Edge of the Iron Curtain - Life in a 1960s British Reconnaissance Regiment (434)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/eyes-at-the-edge-of-the-iron-curtain-life-in-a-1960s-british-reconnaissance-regiment-434) — 2025-12-13T00:00:00+00:00 - [What was Cold War British Army Conscription really like? (433)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/what-was-cold-war-british-army-conscription-really-like-433) — 2025-12-06T00:00:00+00:00 - [The Berlin Airlift - Victories, Myths, and the Berlin Blockade (432)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cold-war-conversations-vivid-compelling-the-ny-times-1014119/the-berlin-airlift-victories-myths-and-the-berlin-blockade-432) — 2025-11-27T00:04:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. A page view does not automatically enqueue transcription.