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Eileen - A British student living in Cold War East Germany (32)
20 oktober 2018 · 41 min
Today we speak with Eileen Ford-Price who was British student in the GDR in the 1980s in Rostock.
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Eileen shares some great details with us including her reasons for being a student in the GDR. Her first journey across the border and what life was like in 1980s Rostock as a foreign student.
It’s a fascinating story that includes the Stasis’s attempt to recruit her as an informer on her fellow students.
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The Korean War in Britain (31)
13 oktober 2018 · 59 min
We speak with Doctor Grace Huxford, author of the Korean War in Britain – Citizenship, Selfhood and Forgetting.
The Korean War was known as the “forgotten war”, but it is key in understanding the early Cold War tensions and later repercussions that continue through to today.
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The subjects we cover include the social impact of the Korean War within Britain, the UK view of the war, prisoners of war and brainwashing as well as protests against the war.
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Leaving your family to go off to a nuclear war (30)
6 oktober 2018 · 59 min
Dave Arnold was the Chief Observer at a Royal Observer Corps nuclear monitoring post. Lees meer
I made a fascinating visit with Dave to the Rushton Spencer Royal Observer Corps nuclear monitoring post in Staffordshire in the UK.
My instructions were to meet in the Royal Oak pub car park where I would be escorted to the post…right on 11am David appeared and guided me up various little used country lanes into the hills above Rushton Spencer and onto a rutted track.
We climbed further until a small well kept compound appeared over a ridge. Welcome to the Rushton Spencer Royal Observer Corps post…Support the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
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Cold War Living History Event - The Soviet Threat (29)
29 september 2018 · 54 min
This episode takes place at a Living History event in and around the Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker museum in deepest Cheshire in the UK. I can heartily recommend visiting the Hack Green Bunker and we are planning an audio tour of the bunker as a future episode. Lees meer
The event was patrolled by various re-enactors and checkpointshad to be passed as visitors are invited to venture between the two sides of the Cold War.
A large contingent from the South Staff Living History Group were there, mainly DDR themed., however, many areas were covered including RAF Moleworth Cruise Missile base, French Foreign Legion, The Royal Observer Corps, US Army Europe, 1st Gulf War, Soviet, Bundeswehr, BAOR, Polish, Czech and the Malayan Emergency.
What particularly delighted me was the number of younger people who have gained an interest in the Cold War and are part of the re-enactment community.
We join the episode shortly after I have passed the DDR checkpoint and I chat with the two DDR border guards who are now in a more amiable mood…
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Cold War USAF pilot Buz Carpenter talks Vietnam recon, Skunkworks and more
21 september 2018 · 45 min
USAF pilot Buz Carpenter talks about about flying reconnaissance over Vietnam, the Skunkworks where secret USAF projects were developed, his time commanding Ramstein airbase at the end of the Cold War and more. Lees meer
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Flying the Cold War Blackbird SR71 Spyplane (27)
15 september 2018 · 55 min
Today we are talking about the SR71 Blackbird spy plane. Only 32 Blackbirds were ever made, and they were in service from 1964-1998. The great defensive ability of the plane was its high speed and altitude. Standard evasive action was just to accelerate, which made it almost invulnerable to the attack technologies of the time.
The top speed of the plane was mach 3.3 (2,200 miles/hour that’s 36 miles/minute). Lees meerThanks to all those who are supporting the podcast with monthly pledges and donations. It is much appreciated and will allow us to expand the scope of the podcast. If you would like to support the podcast further and get access to some exclusive extras go to our website at coldwarconversations.com and click on the “support the Podcast” menu option.
Back to todays episode…our guest knows a bit about the SR71…Buz Carpenter accrued 777 hours flying SR-71 planes. He flew Blackbirds as an aircraft commander and later as an instructor pilot, with over 60 operational missions. He also flew in the C-141, RF-4C, and T-38 planes, flying 150 combat hours in Vietnam.
He worked in the Pentagon and served as Wing commander at Ramstein Air Base in German during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He retired as a Colonel after serving as the 2nd Air Force Vice Commander, responsible for all the USAF Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance flying assets.
He is currently a docent for the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, Udvar Hazy Center. We welcome Buz Carpenter
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My father was the leader of the Soviet Union - Part 2 (26)
7 september 2018 · 33 min
This is part 2 of my conversation with Professor Sergei Khrushchev the son of Nikita Khrushchev who led the Soviet Union 1953 to 1964.
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In part 2 of this interview, we gain insight into Soviet thinking around the Cuban Missile Crisis, we hear about the Soviet view of the building of the Berlin Wall along with the 1961 Berlin Crisis and his father’s fall from power. Lees meerIf you missed part 1 you can find it here https://coldwarconversations.com/episode25/
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My father was the leader of the Soviet Union - Part 1 (25)
2 september 2018 · 39 min
In part 1 of this interview we talk about Professor Khrushchev’s early years, his relationship with his father, his father’s rise to power, the 1956 Hungarian Uprising as well the first international visits accompanying his father to the UK, East Germany and the USA. Lees meer
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Cold War West German Nuclear Monitoring System (24)
25 augustus 2018 · 39 min
West Germany had a number of Nuclear Warning Bunkers dotted around the country similar to the Royal Observer Corps in the UK.
Mirko Krumm describes the organisation West German Civil Defence and the preservation of his bunker near Bremen. Lees meerSupport the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
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Gary Powers & the 1960 U2 Incident
18 augustus 2018 · 56 min
Powers' U-2 was shot down on May 1, 1960, as he flew over Soviet airspace, and after parachuting out of the plane he was captured and convicted of espionage.
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison but was freed on Feb. 10, 1962, in exchange for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
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The Trabant car - East German icon (22)
11 augustus 2018 · 40 min
We’re talking about East German cars with Alex Goffe and Mark Mullarkey of the UK-based Wartburg Trabant IFA Club.
Now I don’t think Top Gear or Jeremy Clarkson, etc. have anything to worry about, but I hope you enjoy our chat and ride through the Staffordshire countryside in Alex’s Trabi… Lees meerSupport the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
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BRIXMIS, the defence of Cold War Berlin & Rudolf Hess (21)
6 augustus 2018 · 1 uur 30 min
Welcome to Episode 21 of Cold War Conversations. Lees meer
Now I am very excited by today’s guest and we have a packed episode for you. Nigel Dunkley MBE is a former Royal Scots Dragoon Guard who served in Berlin with a squadron of Chieftain tanks tasked with defending the British Sector including the Brandenburg Gate should the Cold War have turned hot.
Nigel also performed intelligence gathering duties in the former East Germany with BRIXMIS which was an intelligence organisation worked throughout the Cold War years from 1946 to 1990 gathering intelligence in the former Soviet Occupation Zone of East Germany on the threat posed to the West and NATO by the 20 Soviet and 6 East German Army Divisions and their Air Forces deployed there.
In the 1980s Nigel also interpreted for Hitler’s Deputy Rudolf Hess in Spandau Prison, Berlin and provided some fascinating insight into the character of Hess.
Later in his military career he was awarded the MBE and Bronze Star Medal for his services with the US 1st Cavalry Division during Operation Desert Storm. Nigel was also Chief of Staff at the Royal Armoured Corp Centre at Bovington, ending his army career as Defence Attache at the British Embassy in Berlin.
I am delighted and honoured to welcome Nigel Dunkley.
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Anke - Life as an East German teenager (20)
29 juli 2018 · 1 uur 22 min
Today we're talking to Anke Holst was born in the GDR during the 1970s in Rostock.
Anke has returned to Rostock after many years abroad and now provides tours of GDR sites in Rostock.
Our conversation highlights how different life was in the provinces of the GDR as opposed to Berlin.
In a wide ranging, frank and honest discussion we talk about her family life with her mother who was a stalwart Party member, Anke's school class role as "Agitator", her training in Marxist-Leninism, and her weapons training in the Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation in Rostock. Lees meerSupport the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
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Able Archer and the Cold War nuclear war scare of 1983 (19)
21 juli 2018 · 1 uur 14 min
Today we're talking to Francesca Akhtar who holds a BA Hons in American Studies with 1st class honours from Canterbury Christ Christ Church University in Kent, and a Masters degree in US history & Politics from the Institute of the Americas, University College London.
Her main research interests are US Cold War foreign policy, intelligence history and defence. Francesca has written a dissertation entitled “The most dangerous Soviet-American confrontation since the Cuban Missile Crisis?” An analysis of the origins, nature and impact of the Able Archer 83 incident .
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RAF Greenham Common - A history of the iconic Cold War British nuclear base.(18)
14 juli 2018 · 1 uur 4 min
The airfield is probably best known, certainly in the UK, for the controversial deployment of Ground Launched Cruise Missiles in the 1980s and the resulting Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp outside its gates.
Today’s guest is is a graduate in international relations, the author of “In Defence of Freedom; a History of RAF Greenham Common” and is also a Director of Greenham Control Tower Ltd.
I am delighted to welcome Jonathan Sayers. Lees meerSupport the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
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Eyewitness to the Prague Spring
7 juli 2018 · 1 uur 9 min
In 1968 today’s guest was 15 year old at the same school in Prague as Czech communist leader Alexander Dubček’s son.
Jan Čulík provides a valuable eyewitness account of the heady days of the Prague Spring and the subsequent Warsaw Pact invasion. He provides some insightful views that I found challenged my understanding of the Prague Spring.
He details the situation in Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s, the Prague Spring, his experiences as the reformers were suppressed to the late 1970s and his arrest by the STB, the Czech secret police.
The interview starts as we talk about the level of censorship in Czechoslovakia before the Prague Spring. Lees meerSupport the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
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Mark - A US Combat Engineer in Cold War West Germany (16)
30 juni 2018 · 1 uur 26 min
Today we’re talking to Mark Valley, host of the Livedrop espionage podcast. Lees meer
Mark served with the US army as a combat engineer in West Germany and later with the Berlin Brigade.
His story gives you an eyewitness account of service in both locations, but also gives some insight into the training, tactics and dilemmas of service in the army.
I am delighted and honoured to welcome Mark Valley.
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Sabine - An East German Childhood (15)
23 juni 2018 · 1 uur 16 min
Today we speak to Sabine who was 13 when the Wall opened.
We hear about her childhood in East Germany and gain great insight into life at the time, the pressures on her family and her first steps into West Berlin.
I found Sabine’s story very personal and moving detailing her experiences as her country disappeared almost overnight casting her family into an uncertain future as the safety net they were used too disappeared with it.
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The 1968 Prague Spring (14)
16 juni 2018 · 58 min
In today’s episode we return to Czechoslovakia and one of the most iconic moments of the Cold War – The Prague Spring of 1968.
We have with us Lani Seelinger of Socialism Realised which an excellent website and learning environment that uses multimedia content as teaching aids about the communist regimes in Europe. I do recommend you check them out at Socialismrealised.eu
Some of you will have seen the film of Alexander Dubcek and the adoring crowds as well as the powerful images of the Warsaw Pact invasion. Our chat shows that beneath those images there’s more nuances and I hope you find the episode insightful and entertaining.
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A US soldier at Checkpoint Charlie when the Berlin Wall opened (13)
9 juni 2018 · 1 uur 17 min
Michael Rafferty was posted to Berlin in 1988. He served in the 287th Military Police Company at Checkpoint Charlie and was there through to the historic opening of the Berlin Wall and the removal of the checkpoint in 1990. Lees meer
I have always been intrigued by a video posted on YouTube filmed in the 1980s by a young US Army soldier documenting his first days in Berlin for his family back at home.
Now I never dreamed that I would find, let alone talk to that soldier, but through the magic of the internet, we got in contact, and Michael Rafferty agreed to give his first interview in 24 years to Cold War Conversations.
His story spans the last days of Checkpoint Charlie, from when the border was the heavily fortified barrier familiar to us from those spy films to the opening of the wall and the unification of Germany.
I am delighted and honoured to welcome Michael Rafferty.
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My Stasi file is as thick as a phone book (12)
2 juni 2018 · 1 uur 11 min
We’re chatting with Mark Reeder a musician and music producer who has been involved in the Berlin and international music scene since 1978, starting as Factory Records German representative from 1978-1983.
Through contacts in the GDR he put on several secret punk gigs behind the Iron Curtain and his Stasi file is described as “as thick as a phone book”. He is however, denied access to the full file as it remains in the possession of the German Federal Intelligence Service...
He is also the founder and owner of the first East German electronic dance music label Masterminded For Success “MFS” which he started in 1990, after being the only and last Westerner to make an album in communist East Germany which was “Torture” by Die Vision in 1989.
His is a very interesting and unusual account with some great stories including how he smuggled a Volksarmee uniform across the Berlin Wall and the unusual currency needed to get your phone fixed. Lees meerSupport the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
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Observing Cold War Armageddon (11)
26 mei 2018 · 1 uur 4 min
Today we’re covering a British Cold War civil defence unit called the Royal Observer Corps.
We’re talking to Alistair McCann who has preserved a Royal Observer Corps monitoring post as a museum in Northern Ireland.
We talk about the museum, the difficulties of the Northern Ireland Royal Observer Corps during “The Troubles” and what the reality would have been for these men and women should the Cold War have turned hot.
I hope you find our conversation as interesting as I did. We welcome Alistair McCann. Lees meerSupport the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
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1960s Road Trip Across the Soviet Union (10)
18 mei 2018 · 53 min
Jeremy Poynton was a 16 year old school boy in 1968 when he embarked on a memorable trip by road from Leningrad to Odessa.
He vividly describes a Soviet Union still struggling with poverty and a diverse range of peoples from city dwellers to remote Chechen villagers.
It’s a unique story as Jeremy details his experiences and the sights of a 1960s Soviet Union just as the Prague Spring was being suppressed.
I hope you enjoy our chat as much as I did, we welcome Jeremy Poynton. Lees meerSupport the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
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Cloak & Dagger in Cold War Prague (9)
12 mei 2018 · 1 uur 18 min
Mark Baker is an independent journalist and travel writer who’s lived in Central Europe for more than two decades.
I heartily recommend his travel website www.markbakerprague.com which is an eclectic mix of stories about his adopted hometown of Prague and stories from when Central Europe was the “Eastern bloc” and he was a full-time journalist trying his best to cover it.
Mark tells an intriguing and compelling story and I urge you to listen right to the end. I hope you enjoy our chat and I welcome Mark Baker. (the drawing is by Stewart K Moore and is a representation of Mark’s Czechoslovak fixer during the 1980s) Lees meerSupport the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
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Warsaw Pact Armoured Fighting Vehicles (8)
7 mei 2018 · 1 uur 11 min
Welcome to Episode 8 of Cold War Conversations where we talk about the armoured fighting vehicles of the Warsaw Pact.
Russell Phillips has written several books on Warsaw Pact military equipment and our conversation is an interesting exchange covering the evolution in design, tactics and the deployment of Warsaw Pact armoured forces should the Cold War have turned hot.
It also covers a slightly off topic conversation about saunas and swimming pools in Soviet submarines and Frankie Goes to Hollywood! Lees meerSupport the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
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Interview with Stasi Child author - David Young (7)
5 mei 2018 · 1 uur 3 min
We speak with David Young who has written the Stasi Child - Karin Müller series of crime thrillers set in East Germany in the mid 1970s. Lees meer
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The 1953 Cold War East German Uprising with Dr Richard Millington (6)
28 april 2018 · 1 uur 35 min
We talk about the relatively little known Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.
A lot of focus justifiably is on the fall of the Berlin Wall, but it can be argued that the Uprising of 1953 sowed the seeds for the eventual demise of the GDR.We chat with Dr Richard Millington who has studied the Uprising and shares with us some fascinating research including eyewitness accounts and details from the Stasi files of the period. Lees meerSupport the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
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Espionage, East Germany and Berlin with Spybrary host Shane Whaley - Part 2 (5)
20 april 2018 · 35 min
Welcome to episode 5 which is part 2 of our Cold War Conversation with Shane Whaley of Spybrary .
Show notes at coldwarconversations.com/episode5/
We talked for some time ,so I have split this interview into two parts.
I hope you find this second half as interesting as I did – settle in for a wide ranging and hopefully interesting conversation with my good friend Shane Whaley. Lees meerSupport the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
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Espionage, East Germany and Berlin with Spybrary host Shane Whaley - Part 1 (4)
18 april 2018 · 57 min
Welcome to episode 4 (part 1) of Cold War Conversations. Today we’re talking about Cold War espionage, East Germany and Berlin with Spybrary host, Shane Whaley.
Shane runs the Spybrary podcast at spybrary.com. Their goal is to encourage people to read new spy novels, revisit an old espionage classic and discuss them with our community of like minded spy fans. It’s great fun if you like spy books I highly recommend his podcast.
Settle in for a wide ranging and hopefully interesting conversation with my good friend Shane Whaley.
We could have gone on for hours and indeed we did, so I have split this interview into two parts Lees meerSupport the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/
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The Strange World of East German Football (3)
7 april 2018 · 1 uur 11 min
Welcome to Episode 3 of Cold War Conversations where we hear about the strange world of football in East Germany and even if you are not interested in football it’s a fascinating chat. Lees meer
Craig McCracken runs the website, Beyondthelastman.com, described as 20th century football writing and nostalgia in a skilled and cultured groove.
One of his areas of interest is football in the GDR and from our conversation you’ll realise he is a fount of knowledge from BSG Rotation Babelsberg to FC Hansa Rostock and all stops between.
We talk about the nefarious activities of Stasi Chief Erich Mielke and his favourite team, and we cover the only competitive game where the GDR played West Germany in the 1974 World Cup. Craig also describes a Stasi chase through the bazaars of Istanbul to stop player defections and a suspicious death of a former GDR player in West Germany.
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Berlin during the 1960s and 70s and Signals Intelligence (2)
1 april 2018 · 41 min
Welcome to the first full episode of Cold War Conversations where we start with a fascinating eyewitness account of Berlin during the Cold War. Lees meer
Michael lived in Berlin as a child of US Airforce personnel in the 1960s and 70s and then subsequently joined the US Airforce himself and worked in Signals Intelligence during the 1980s.
In a wide-ranging chat, we talked about life for American families and their kids in Berlin during the 1960s and 70s as well as his time in signals intelligence in Berlin in the 1980s. We also talked about the Stasi spy in Michael’s unit, Kennedy’s visit to Berlin, Baader Meinhof attacks on US Forces, and much more.
Our guest’s unit was described by the Commander in Chief US Airforce Europe as “his eyes and ears to the East.”
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Cold War Conversations trailer
24 maart 2018 · 1 min
Experience the Cold War through the voices of the people who were there. Lees meer
From soldiers to spies and civilians there are hundreds of unique stories told with humour, sadness, and all the emotions in between.
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Cold War Conversations is a unique award-winning project dedicated to creating an archive of first-hand accounts of the Cold War. Many of our stories have never been heard before.
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