- 496
- Episodes
- 147
- Transcribed
- 1,063
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 858K
- YouTube views
About Cold War Conversations
"Listening to even one episode of "Cold War Conversations" will make this sprawling, potentially intimidating period of history feel vivid and compelling." The New York Times Experience the Cold War like never before with Cold War Conversations — an award-winning podcast. Each week, host Ian Sanders brings you raw, firsthand accounts from the people who lived through one of history’s most tense and transformative eras — soldiers, spies, civilians, and more. These aren’t stories from textbooks. They’re unfiltered voices from the frontlines of history — emotional, gripping, and deeply human. This is Cold War history, told from the inside out.
- Publisher
- Ian Sanders
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Mar 2018
- Latest episode
- 7 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
147 of 496 episodes have a transcript.
7 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Suez 1956: The Secret War That Broke British Power (481)
6 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
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31 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Me and Honest John - The Nuclear Secret Rich Kept for 60 Years (480)
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Suez 1956: The Secret War That Broke British Power (481)
Published 7 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] He claims that the canal's company's profits will pay for the dam. The American intelligence assessment five days later says that nationalisation has boosted Nasser at home and made him an even stronger symbol of Arab nationalism. And this is where everyone starts looking at things differently. […]
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- Rich
- Peter Lamas
- Bing
- Bogdan
- Johan Wennström
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 857,739
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 471 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 592 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 95 / 100
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- Quality
- 95
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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