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

@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 7:58 AM

2 October 1964: The USSR launches Voskhod 1, carrying three cosmonauts into orbit for the first time. To squeeze them into the tiny spacecraft, engineers remove the ejection seat and spacesuits. Another Soviet Space Race triumph but a potentially deadly gamble.

@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:15 PM

How Peter met Ernest Hemingway, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Jackie Kennedy & Elizabeth Taylor

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@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 8:45 AM

The amazing story of how Peter Lamas met #ErnestHemingway, #CheGuevara, and #FidelCastro

Listen here 🎧https://coldwarconversations.com/episode477/

@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 8:05 AM

The amazing story of how Peter Lamas met #ErnestHemingway, #CheGuevara, and #FidelCastro

Listen here 🎧https://coldwarconversations.com/episode477/

@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:15 AM

How Peter met Ernest Hemingway, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Jackie Kennedy & Elizabeth Taylor

Follow @coldwarpod.bsky.social, like this post, and reply for a chance to win a signed copy of this book.

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@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 7:15 AM

The amazing story of how Peter Lamas met #ErnestHemingway, #CheGuevara, and #FidelCastro

Listen here 🎧https://coldwarconversations.com/episode477/

@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 7:05 AM

A Red Guard at 12. A soldier near the Soviet border at 15. Bing’s extraordinary Cold War story begins in Mao’s Beijing. Hear his remarkable eyewitness story.

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coldwarconversations.com/episode476/
#china #culturalrevolution

@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:45 PM

A Red Guard at 12. A soldier near the Soviet border at 15. Bing’s extraordinary Cold War story begins in Mao’s Beijing. Hear his remarkable eyewitness story.

Listen here 🎧🎧
coldwarconversations.com/episode476/
#china #culturalrevolution

@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:28 PM

#otd 1989: 70,000 East Germans march through Leipzig demanding freedom.

Police and Stasi forces stand ready. A violent crackdown is feared.

But the protesters refuse to back down. The regime does not intervene.

Just 31 days later, the Berlin Wall falls.

@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:23 AM

If you’d like a Manchester Museum architecture tour with yours truly book for the 9th Dec

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@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 2:29 PM

I must get at least 2 of these a week.

@fxmc1957.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:11 AMReposted by @coldwarpod.bsky.social

8 October 1965. London’s Post Office Tower was opened. It was designed by the architects Eric Bedford and GR Yeats. At 189 metres high the Post Office Tower loomed over every other building in London when it opened.

@groomb.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 7:15 AMReposted by @coldwarpod.bsky.social

Manchester, 1961, photo by Shirley Baker.

@bbcstever.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 6:30 AMReposted by @coldwarpod.bsky.social

"In this building lived and worked journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Killed 7 October 2006"

@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:10 AM

Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon, dies at 90.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 8:00 AM

#OTD 1973: Egypt and Syria launch a surprise attack on Israel during Yom Kippur.

Egypt crosses the Suez Canal; Syria attacks the Golan Heights.

The war brings US and Soviet forces perilously close to confrontation—and helps trigger a global oil crisis.

@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 5:45 AM

Bing went from chanting #Mao’s words in Beijing to preparing for #Soviet tanks in #Manchuria. Hear his remarkable eyewitness story.

Listen here 🎧🎧
coldwarconversations.com/episode476/
#china #culturalrevolution

@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 10:00 AM

Bing went from chanting #Mao’s words in Beijing to preparing for #Soviet tanks in #Manchuria. Hear his remarkable eyewitness story.

Listen here 🎧🎧
coldwarconversations.com/episode476/
#china #culturalrevolution

@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 8:22 AM

#OTD 1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 - the first artificial satellite.

Its radio signal is heard worldwide as it circles Earth every 98 minutes.

The little metal sphere shocks America, demonstrates Soviet rocket power and ignites the Space Race.

@coldwarpod.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 6:45 PM

At 12, Bing became one of #Mao’s Red Guards. Then the #CulturalRevolution turned on his family—and sent him towards the #Soviet frontier.

Listen here 🎧🎧
coldwarconversations.com/episode476

#china #culturalrevolution

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