A British Journalist under Stasi Surveillance (125)

<p>We talk to Mark Brayne again in a wide ranging chat about his career as a Reuters &amp; BBC journalist including details of his Stasi file, his time in the Soviet Union, Hungary &amp; Poland as well as the perils of editing analogue tape in a non-digital age.</p><p>Among his interviewees we talk about the Dalai Lama, Lech Walesa as well the ordinary people of the Warsaw Pact countries.</p><p>If you are enjoying the podcast please leave a written reviews in Apple podcasts or share us on social media. By telling your friends you can really help the podcast grow.</p><p>If you can spare it I’m asking listeners to contribute $3 USD per month to help keep us on the air (larger amounts are welcome too) plus you can get a sought after CWC coaster as a monthly financial supporter of the podcast and you bask in the warm glow of knowing you helping preserve Cold War history.</p><p>Just go to <a href='https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/'>https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/</a></p><p>Thanks to latest Patreons </p><p>Back to today’s episode, part 2 of three episodes with Mark and as you will hear we have a lot of fun recording this...</p><p> We welcome Mark Brayne to our Cold War conversation…</p><p>There’s further information on this episode in our show notes, which can also be found as a link in your podcast app. <a href='https://coldwarconversations.com/episode125/'>https://coldwarconversations.com/episode125/</a></p><p>If you like what you are hearing, please leave reviews in Apple podcasts and share us on social media.</p><p>If you can’t wait for next week’s episode do visit our Facebook discussion group where guests and listeners continue the Cold War Conversation. Just search Cold War Conversations in Facebook.</p><p>Thank you very much for listening. It is really appreciated – goodbye.</p><p>Hi there, a quick word from your host – <b>we won an award for Best Arts &amp; History podcast </b>at the QTT Media awards last week!</p><p>Cold War Conversations is now officially an award-winning podcast which would