A British Journalist in Cold War East Berlin (40)

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Ian Sanders

Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Shane Whaley from the GDR Radio Podcast and Spybrary podcast and I speak with Peter Millar. Peter is an award-winning journalist who was named Foreign Correspondent of the Year for his reporting on the dying days of the Cold War. Peter's book "The Berlin Wall: My Part in its Downfall" is described as "a witty, wry, elegiac account of his time as a Reuters and Sunday Times correspondent in Berlin throughout most of the 1980s' " by The Spectator and the Sunday Times described it as" part autobiography, part history primer and part Fleet Street gossip column ... Millar cast aside the old chestnuts and set about reporting on the reality of life under communism. In bare Stalinist apartments, at hollow party events and over cool glasses of Volker the gravedigger-cum-hippie, the Stasi seductress "Helga the Honeypot", Kurtl the accordion player whose father had been killed at Stalingrad, and the petty smuggler Manne who has been separated from his parents by the Wall ... Radio GDR If you are interested in East Germany we can highly recommend our friends over at Radio GDR. Support the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/ColdWarPod Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/coldwarpod/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/coldwarconversations/ Youtube https://youtube.com/@ColdWarConversations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Cold War Conversations, the home of real stories of the Cold War.
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0:35.1	And we would decanted out into a police station, which is a police station yard, with white tiles against the wall and concrete on the other side.
0:44.2	And they started pushing us up to one side, pushing out with their arms and legs against the wall and running the truncheons up their inside legs.
0:51.9	This is Cold War Conversations. If you're new here, you've come to the right place to listen to first-hand Cold War history accounts.
1:01.6	Do make sure you follow us in your podcast app or join our emailing list at Cold Warconversations.com.
1:10.7	Welcome to episode 40 of Cold War Conversations.
1:15.9	Today we have a joint operation where myself and Shane Whaley from the GDR Radio podcast
1:22.6	and SpyBerry podcast speak with Peter Miller.
1:26.6	Peter is an award-winning journalist who was named Foreign Correspondent of the Year
1:31.4	for his reporting on the dying days of the Cold War.
1:35.4	Now, before we get going, I'm sure you'd like some exclusive extras,
1:39.4	including previews of future episodes, as well as content that didn't make the final cut.
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1:58.8	I'd also like to thank our latest reviewers in iTunes, Jamie NYC,
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