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

History Podcasts

"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...

Episodes

Face to Face with War Criminals (464)

Inside a Cold War USAF Fighter Squadron (463)

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

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

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

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

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

Conscripted to a West German Nuclear Missile Unit (457)

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

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

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

Chornobyl: Anatomy of a Catastrophe (453)

From East Berlin to West Ireland (452)

Guarding the Wire at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (451)

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

MI6 Director Looks Back at His Time in Cold War Berlin (449)

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

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

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

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