worthwhile content today with john connelly...he is easily understood but the host is barely intelligible...please fix this...hard to spend an hour listening to such poor audio...

Great, interesting content, excellent books. Just wish that the audio quality would be on the level. A lot odd noise, fade outs, tough to hear parts make it not easy to enjoy.

This work is too important to have such poor production values. Echoes, fade out, stuttered audio. Some fantastic books. Articulate authors who are able to discuss their work so that the educated layman may follow it. The audio should be the easy part. The guests (and listeners) deserve better.

Dear God these people at the New Books Network must have a tin-ear. Far too many of the podcasts are poorly recorded enough to realize that they seem to not care or made their interviewers try to maintain quality recording . I listen to several other podcasts, NONE have the quality control problems the "New Books Network" seems to have on some of theirs. C'mon guys get your act together, podcasts have come a long way.

Wow. I am very happy to have come across this podcast. As someone who has a huge interest in the Cold War, in particular eastern Europe and the events that lead to the dissolution of 'Communism', I can't say how awesome and informative this podcast is. I have learned several 'iron curtain' languages (Russian, Polish, and German) because I am very much addicted to the foreign films that were made depicting life behind this region. I find the discussions between the host and the guest quite fascinating. I learned a lot that I had not read in several Cold War books I've read. The content is rich, and I can't wait to listen to future episodes. I hope there are more to come in the future. This is good stuff and wonderful knowledge to pass down, pertaining to an important part of our world history that is still fairly recent. Thank YOU!!