Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe (75)

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Ian Sanders

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🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Today we’re talking to Alison Lewis, a professor in German at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of several books, including one in German about love and gender in literature during Germany's reunification and a book in German about the Stasi's infiltration of the literary underground. We spoke to Alison in episode 71. In this episode we talk about her latest collaboration a new book called "Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe." The book brings together a wide range of accounts compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files. Now many of our fans are the proud owners of a Cold War Conversations Coaster, a gift from me to thank them for helping the podcast financially. In July Peter Lawaetz Winkler, Simon Curtis, Remy Louviere, Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker and Thomas Pohlentz joined this select band. For the price of a couple of coffees a month to cover the show’s increasing costs and keep us on the air you can get a coaster too? Just go to Patreon.com/coldwarpod So back to today’s episode. We recorded in Manchester Central Library so do forgive us for any weird background noises. I’m delighted to welcome Prof Alison Lewis to Cold War Conversations. Show notes available here https://coldwarconversations.com/episode75/ Buy the book on this link and help support the podcast. 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.
0:05.9	Timothy Shalame is Bob Dylan and a complete unknown.
0:09.4	If anyone who's going to hold your attention on the state, you have to kind of be a freak.
0:13.9	Critics agree it's outstanding on every level. Five stars.
0:19.1	Shalemay is a revelation.
0:20.8	What do you want to be?
0:21.9	Whatever it is, they don't want me to be.
0:23.8	Now nominated for the Golden Globes for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor, Edward Norton.
0:29.3	A complete unknown.
0:30.6	Ladies and gentlemen, Bob Bill!
0:32.4	In Cinema's January 17, rated 15.
0:35.9	His family had to quickly go over to to the east and the children were saying,
0:41.5	what, we thought we were going to see grandpa who's sick.
0:45.3	And then they got into the east, but not at the grandparents' place.
0:48.9	And suddenly they were surrounded by Stasi agents.
0:51.7	And they said, well, we have to tell you your father's
0:54.3	a Starzzi agent this is Cold War Conversations if you're new here you've come to the right
1:03.0	place to listen to first-hand Cold War history accounts do make sure you follow us in your
1:09.0	podcast app or join our emailing list at cold warconversations.com.
1:15.7	I'm speaking today with Professor Alison Lewis, one of the co-authors of Cold War spy stories from Eastern Europe, which has just been published.
1:26.6	With the opening of the secret police archives in many countries in Eastern Europe,
1:32.1	it comes with a unique chance to excavate many forgotten spy stories and narrate them for the first time.
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