Cold War Conversations

Cold War Conversations


Latest Episodes

Borderlands and Battles: A Finnish Town's Cold War Story (333)
February 23, 2024

Timo's childhood was overshadowed by his grandparents memories of their home lost during World War II and their proximity to the Soviet Union.

Australian Cold War Maritime Air Patrols (332)
February 16, 2024

Leigh flew on the P-3C Orion with the RAAF across the Indo-Pacific region during the Cold War

A traumatic childhood journey from Cold War Poland to the United States (331)
February 09, 2024

In this deeply personal episode, our guest, Norbert, vividly recounts his traumatic childhood journey from Cold War Poland to the United States.

Planning for a Hot War in the Cold War (330)
February 02, 2024

Dan served in the War Plans office of the Cold War US Army VII Corps

The Picnic That Ripped Open The Iron Curtain (329)
January 26, 2024

In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable: they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and held a picnic.

US Army Anti-Aircraft Missile Battery Command in Cold War West Germany (228)
January 19, 2024

Dan served as a lieutenant and captain in a US Army air defence artillery battalion in West Germany from 1980 until 1985.

Britain's first Cold War Nuclear Attack Warning Station at Jodrell Bank (327)
January 12, 2024

The Cold War secrets of the Jodrell Bank observatory

The East German Tank Commander (326)
January 05, 2024

In the mid-1980s Dag was a T72 tank commander in the NVA , the East German Army.

Twilight of the Soviet Union – Memoirs of a British Journalist in Moscow (325)
December 29, 2023

Kate is sent to Moscow in 1985 to write articles for The Morning Star, a left-wing British daily newspaper

Further Cold War Tank Tales from the Land Down Under (324)
December 22, 2023

We cover Kangaroo 89, a huge military exercise with the entire Australian Army using an area the size of Western Europe