Cold War Conversations

Ian Sanders

Topics: History · Documentary

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"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 award-winning podcast. 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.

Latest episodeMe and Honest John - The Nuclear Secret Rich Kept for 60 Years (480)October 31, 2026 · 64 min

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Latest episodes

1. Me and Honest John - The Nuclear Secret Rich Kept for 60 Years (480)October 31, 2026 · 64 min
2. Hungary 1956: Twelve Days That Shook the Soviet Empire (479)October 23, 2026 · 60 min
3. What did Jacqueline Kennedy privately believe about the JFK Assassination? (478)October 16, 2026 · 51 min
4. My Cuban Encounters with Hemingway, Batista, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro (477)October 9, 2026 · 60 min
5. From Mao's Red Guard to conscription into the Chinese People's Liberation Army (476)October 2, 2026 · 57 min
6. The Birth of Poland's Free Trade Union Solidarity (475)September 25, 2026 · 66 min
7. Growing Up Under Communism on Cold War Poland’s Baltic Coast (474)September 18, 2026 · 68 min
8. If the Soviets Invaded : Sweden's Secret Underground Resistance Plan (473)September 11, 2026 · 47 min
9. Bandit Country - The IRA and South Armagh (472)September 4, 2026 · 68 min
10. A Czech Border Guard’s Daring Escape to the West (471)August 29, 2026 · 84 min

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