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Cold War Conversations Podcast

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Award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost... Listen & follow for free at https://coldwarconversations.com/ Hosted & produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of Royal Historical Society & Manchester Museum

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Shirleene Robinson @shirleene.bsky.social · 14h ago

I loved working with the National Library of Australia on this oral history podcast, the Memory Tapes. 🎙️❤️ The NLA hold the largest oral history collection in the country, more than 58,000 hours.You can check it all out here or anywhere you get podcasts www.library.gov.au/learn/adults... #oralhistory

The Memory Tapes | National Library of Australia (NLA)

The Memory Tapes brings history to life through the voices of the people who lived it. Drawing on one of the nation’s most significant oral history collections, the series explores remarkable stories ...

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW EPISODE - Growing up in Grey - a #coldwar #romanian #childhood Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode467/

Growing Up Grey: Childhood in Cold War Romania

Romania in the 1980s was a country of empty shops, power cuts, rationing and fear—but for one little girl it was also home.Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyListen on YouTubeListen on A

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 2d ago

The news this week that @jodrellbank.bsky.social observatory is closing is a good reminder that the site's founder, Sir Bernard Lovell, played a key part in the Cold War. Alleged Cold War assassination attempts, MI6, the CIA and the 1960s space race! threadreaderapp.com/thread/20843...

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@pinstripedline: The news this week that the Jodrell Bank observatory is closing is a good reminder that the sites founder, Sir Bernard Lovell, played a key part in the Cold War A thread on alleged Co...

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 3d ago

Brilliant series.

Alan Pringle@alanpringle.bsky.social · 3d ago

Another lucky #ThriftStore find: excellent miniseries about MI5 agents during the Cold War–and which of them can *really* be trusted? #DVD #PhysicalMedia #tv www.imdb.com/title/tt3159...

Zazalogik @zazalogik.bsky.social · 3d ago

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In 1977, the U.S. buried 120,000 tons of radioactive waste in a Pacific ‘nuclear tomb’ - Almost 50 years later, the ocean is threatening to expose the Runit Dome

Hidden in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a massive concrete dome measuring 377 feet across stands as one of the most dangerous legacies of the Cold War.

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW EPISODE - Growing up in Grey - a #coldwar #romanian #childhood Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode467/

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 4d ago

BOOKGIVEAWAY- ASTRONAUT! A chilling & moving #novel set in #Romania in 1989 Follow @coldwarpod.bsky.social, like & reply to this post for a chance to win a copy of this book (UK & Ireland only) @headlinebooks.bsky.social T&C's & other ways to enter here coldwarconversations.com/giveaway

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 4d ago

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW EPISODE - Growing up in Grey - a #coldwar #romanian #childhood Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode467/

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 4d ago

BOOKGIVEAWAY- ASTRONAUT! A chilling & moving #novel set in #Romania in 1989 Follow @coldwarpod.bsky.social, like & reply to this post for a chance to win a copy of this book (UK & Ireland only) T&C's & other ways to enter here coldwarconversations.com/giveaway

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW EPISODE - Growing up in Grey - a #coldwar #romanian #childhood Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode467/

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 5d ago

BOOKGIVEAWAY- ASTRONAUT! A chilling & moving #novel set in #Romania in 1989 Follow @coldwarpod.bsky.social, like & reply to this post for a chance to win a copy of this book (UK & Ireland only) T&C's & other ways to enter here coldwarconversations.com/giveaway

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW EPISODE - Growing up in Grey - a #coldwar #romanian #childhood Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode467/

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW EPISODE - Growing up in Grey - a #coldwar #romanian #childhood Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode467/

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · last wk.

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · last wk.

BOOKGIVEAWAY- The Istanbul Connection by @oggyboytchev.bsky.social Follow @coldwarpod.bsky.social, like & reply to this post for a chance to win a copy of this book T&C's & other ways to enter here coldwarconversations.com/giveaway1/

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Interview with the authorOggy's latest book, The Istanbul Connection, is a gripping, morally complex thriller that explores the blurred lines between ideology and manipulatio

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · last wk.

Kirkus Reviews recommends David Barclay’s Cold War City, a “vivid” new history of West Berlin. Read the full review here:

COLD WAR CITY | Kirkus Reviews

Urban battleground.

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Sophie Mac @sophiemac.bsky.social · last wk.

The Day After (1983). Brilliant for a TV movie. Uses some documentary footage. I must have wanted to compare/contrast with Threads without taking content into consideration. Impressive special effects for the era when the bombs hit. Apparently changed Reagan's approach to the Cold War #FilmSky

A still from the film of the nuclear bomb's enormous mushroom cloud. It's next to a road and cars are abandoned. There's an orange haze over everything and the sky is an orange-grey. The mushroom itself looks like it's made up entirely of firey debris and cloud.

A screenshot from the film of a young Steve Guttenberg, who plays Stephen Klein, a medical student who tries to hitchhike home before the bomb hits. He has a rucksack on his back and is wearing a cream-coloured jacket. There are green fields behind him.

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · last wk.

Brilliant film and the full version is available on YouTube youtu.be/Zlh8zBTl2SQ?...

Defence of the Realm (1986)

YouTube video by Violetta Sherbina

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Steve Diamond@stephenfdiamond.bsky.social · last wk.

Best Cold War era film? Defense of the Realm.

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · last wk.

Long and complicated yes, boring never!

johnjaques.bsky.social@johnjaques.bsky.social · last wk.

The Cold War was all a bit long, boring and complicated. I prefer my cold wars to be fast, exciting and decisive. Like the Empire attack on the Rebel base on Hoth. #booksky #books #lecarre

A cold war era checkpoint on the Berlin wall. The Brandenburg Gate in the background shrouded in mist.
First line from The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Lewis Carre : The American handed Leamas another cup of coffee and said 'Why don't you go back and sleep? We can ring you if he shows up.'
Joke second line: Oh and wear a coat or something will you, it's god damn freezing out there.

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · last wk.

A new way of “delivering” #coldwar spy fiction @spybrary.bsky.social

Fiction Mail@fictionmail.bsky.social · last wk.

The Cold War Spy Series of Fiction Mail Get 8 REAL weekly letters in the mail from Eliza as she digs into her late grandma's secret past as a Cold War spy! Learn more: fictionmail.com/products/the... #historicalfiction #reading #snailmail #history #giftideas

@movierickblaine.bsky.social · last wk.

July 27 1966 TORN CURTAIN opens in NY. Alfred Hitchcock's fiftieth directing gig; a pallid Cold War drama centering on a US physicist who pretends to defect to the East Berlin communists in order to steal secret rocket plans. Star Paul Newman gives the film a solid BO boost.

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW EPISODE - #Defection, #Spies and the Shadow of #GeorgiMarkov with @oggyboytchev.bsky.social Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode466/ #coldwar #bulgaria #bbcworldservice