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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 61-90)
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)
Season 5 (Episodes 111-129)
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
117- Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War
118 – Warsaw Bureau Chief for Time Magazine 1981-83
119 – Alan – Working in the GDR & The USSR
120 – Special Forces Berlin – Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army’s Elite, 1956-1990
121 – The Last Days of East Germany
122 – A 23 year old nuclear missile commander
123 – A UK Journalist in the Soviet Union & the GDR
124 – Britain & the Bomb
125 – A British Journalist under Stasi Surveillance
126 – Reporting the 1989 Romanian Revolution
127 – US Army Intelligence Analyst
128 – Experiencing the Cold War via virtual reality
129 – The KGB tried to recruit me
Season 6 (episodes 130+)
130 – An American teaching English in East Germany
131- Robert – The anti Cold War activist
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