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    • Season 1 (Episodes 1 – 30)
      • Episode 1 – Introduction
      • Episode 2 – Berlin during the Cold War and Signals Intelligence
      • Episode 3 – Football in East Germany with Craig McCracken
      • Episode 4 Part 1 – Espionage, East Germany and Berlin with Spybrary host Shane Whaley
      • Episode 5 Part 2 of – Espionage, East Germany and Berlin with Spybrary host Shane Whaley
      • Episode 6 – The 1953 East German Uprising with Dr Richard Millington
      • Episode 7 – Interview with Stasi Child Author David Young
      • Episode 8 – Warsaw Pact Armoured Fighting Vehicles
      • Episode 9 – Cloak & Dagger in Prague
      • Episode 10 – 1960s School Road Trip across the Soviet Union
      • Episode 11 – Observing Armageddon
      • Episode 12 – “My Stasi file is as thick as a phone book”
      • 13 – The Last Days of Checkpoint Charlie
      • 14 – The Prague Spring
      • 15 – Sabine – An East German Childhood1
      • 16 – How I nearly started World War 3
      • 17 – Eyewitness to the Prague Spring
      • 18 – Greenham Common – an iconic British nuclear airbase
      • 19 – Able Archer & the War Scare of 1983
      • 20 – Life as a East German teenager
      • 21 – BRIXMIS, British defence of Berlin, and Rudolf Hess
      • 22 – Talking Trabi and other East German vehicles
      • 23- Gary Powers & the 1960 U2 Incident
      • 24 – West German Nuclear Monitoring System
      • 25- Professor Sergei Khrushchev Interview – Part 1
      • 26 – Professor Sergei Khrushchev Interview – Part 2
      • 27 – Flying the SR-71 Spy Plane
      • 28 – USAF pilot Buz Carpenter talks Vietnam recon, Skunkworks and more
      • 29 – Living History Event – The Soviet Threat
      • 30 – Visit to a UK nuclear monitoring post
    • Season 2 (Episodes 31-60)
      • 31 – The Korean War in Britain
      • 32 – Eileen – A British Student Living in the GDR
      • 33 – Eileen – A British teacher living & working in East Berlin
      • 34 – Samy – The Life of a West Berliner
      • 35 – The man who owns a Soviet Submarine
      • 36 – Totally East: Life in East Germany Photo Exhibition
      • 37 – Antje – The Girl Behind The Wall
      • 38 – Training to be a US Army Tank Commander
      • 39 – East German Army Officer Training
      • 40 – A British Journalist in East Berlin
      • 41 – Defending the Fulda Gap
      • 42 – Gillian – A US Student visiting the GDR
      • 43 – Highlights of 2018 – A whistle stop tour
      • 44 – Chasing Bears Part 1 – RAF intercepts of Soviet aircraft
      • 45 – An East German Army Officer at the 40th anniversary parade of the GDR
      • 46 – The Berlin Trilogy – Author Interview
      • 47 – Red Reporter – Covert Correspondent for East Germany – Part 1
      • 48 – Gillian – A US Student visits Poland in 1989
      • 49 – An RAF pilot remembers the end of the Cold War – Chasing Bears Pt 2
      • 50 – Freedom’s Laboratory – The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science
      • 51 – The Blood Tattoo
      • 52- László Nagy – A Hungarian Life
      • 53- East German Army Officer at the Fall of the Wall
      • 54 – Canucks Hunt For Red October
      • 55 – Why Preserve Communist Architecture?
      • 56 – The Candy Bomber
      • 57 – A 17 year old in the US Army
      • 58 – Red Reporter – Covert Correspondent for East Germany – Part 2
      • 59 – The Trans Siberian Railway
      • 60 – Working at the British Embassy in Bucharest
    • Season 3 (Episodes 61+)
      • 61 – A US Soldier defects to East Germany – Part 1
      • 62 – Disarming Doomsday
      • 63 – Flying the CF-104 Starfighter over Germany
      • Episode 64 – Arrested by the Stasi on an East Berlin day trip
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What our listeners say

Very interesting and well produced

★★★★★ in Apple Podcasts by Skjip1969 from Australia on February 6, 2019

So much great content and well produced. A fascinating insight often showing the perspective from the east, otherwise unknown to westerners at such an important period of time

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