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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
      • 64 – Arrested by the Stasi on an East Berlin day trip
      • 65 – A tour of F-111 base RAF Upper Heyford
      • 66 – Liberation Square
      • 67- Janina – Life in an East German village near the Polish border
      • 68 – Nuking the Moon & Other Intelligence Schemes & Military Plots left on the Drawing Board
      • 69 – A US Soldier defects to East Germany – Part 2
      • 70 – In deepest secrecy: Cold War Dutch submarine espionage
      • 71 – Stasi Infiltration of the Prenzlauer Berg Underground Literary Scene
      • 72 – Chasing the Moon – The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
      • 73 – Breaking the news of the 1991 Soviet Coup
      • 74 – A visit to RAF Burtonwood
      • 75 – Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe
      • 76 – The early days of the US Space program and origins of GPS
      • 77 – Defending the Pershing 2 nuclear missile
      • 78 – Watching Socialism : The Television Revolution in Eastern Europe
      • 79 – Bridget Kendall – BBC Moscow Correspondent 1989 – 1995
      • 80 – Cuban Missile Crisis U2 Squadron Commander
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★★★★★ in Apple Podcasts by MartiniGlassBob from United States of America on May 2, 2019

I’ve binge listened to all eps and I’m so impressed at how varied the interviews are, how different the experiences of the former DDR were for various podcast guests. The episode on Able Archer was brilliant, but my favourite so far is still ‘My Stasi file is as thick as phone book’. Keep up the incredible work Ian Sanders. I’ve even sponsored this podcast on patreon. Looking forward to every episode now.

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