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  • Episodes & Show Notes Seasons 1-4
    • 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 61-90)
      • 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
      • 81- Eyewitness to the 1991 Soviet Coup
      • 82 A Cold War UK/GDR Romance
      • 83 – Mark – Eyewitness to the events of 1989
      • 84 – Life on a Polaris Nuclear Missile Submarine
      • 85- A Childhood at the Hungarian Border with Austria
      • 86- Growing up on a Soviet base in the GDR
      • 87- British Forces in Germany: The Lived Experience 1945-2019
      • 88 – Life as a Soviet Child Refugee in West Germany
      • 89 – Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the most dangerous place on Earth
      • 90 – Voices of the Berlin Wall 30th Anniversary
    • Season 4 (Episodes 91-110)
      • 91- Alastair – Witnessing the Wende
      • 92 – Gillian – A US Student at the opening of the Berlin Wall
      • 93 – The Berlin Wall – Frederick Taylor
      • 94 – The Strange World of Romanian Cold War Football
      • 95- Alexander – A Conscript in the Soviet Navy
      • 96- Tales of my Father
      • 97 – Dean Reed – Eastern Bloc Music Star Episode 1
      • 98- Dean Reed – Eastern Bloc Music Star Episode 2
      • 99 – A Cold War Mystery – Death In Ice Valley
      • 100 – Manuel – Experiences of the Reforger 82 NATO Exercise
      • 101 – Cold War Conversations on Cold War Conversations
      • 102 – Working in the sensitive side of the US Navy
      • 103 – Betrayal in Berlin
      • 104 – A British Communist Working in East Germany
      • 105 – Children of the Silent Revolution
      • 106 – The first western pilot to fly the MIG-29 Soviet fighter plane
      • 107 – Assigned to a Government Nuclear Bunker
      • 108 – Regimes Museum
      • 109 – Stasi Infiltration of the East German Church
      • 110 – Dr Strangelove film Screening in a Nuclear Bunker (110)
  • Episodes and Show Notes Season 5+
    • Season 5 (Episodes 111+)
    • 111- Serving in the British Army Intelligence Corps during the 1960s & 70s
    • 112- Nuclear War in the UK
    • 113 – Railway Encounters in Eastern Europe
    • 114 – Life as a British Soldier in West Berlin
    • 115 – Taking A Holiday in Cold War Albania
    • 116 – Boarding Soviet ships with the Danish Navy
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