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 about life. It ...
Cold War Conversations
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Watched Chernobyl, The Americans or Bridge of Spies? Listen to our conversations with those that experienced the Cold War and those who are fascinated. Featuring many untold stories of the military and civilian experience never recorded before.
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 study he ...
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 tensions. F...
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 late 70s. Tod...
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 role and sh...
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 field case of...
Vietnam War draftee to US Army Rangers (216)
Bob Wallace joined the US Army in 1968 as a reluctant conscript. He describes the draft process, and his attempts to avoid conscription. After bas...
Helping the Refuseniks (215)
Refusenik was an unofficial term for individuals—typically, but not exclusively, Soviet Jews—who were denied permission to emigrate, primarily to Isra...
Eyewitness to the 1991 Soviet Coup with Brett Elliott (214)
Today’s episode is different. Brett Elliott died earlier this year and I was contacted by his ex-wife Polly who offered me a cassette tape. Polly and ...
Working in the nuclear missile compartment of a Royal Navy Polaris submarine (213)
John Andrews joined the Royal Navy in 1981 and went on to serve aboard the HMS Repulse, one of the UK’s Polaris nuclear missile submarines from 1982.H...