Berlin Wall

Witness History. JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech. Audio, 9 minutes
The US President spoke at the newly constructed Berlin Wall at the height of the Cold War
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BBC World Service
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Short History Of... The Berlin Wall. Audio, 47 minutes
Starting out as a barbed wire fence, the Berlin Wall became a symbol of the Cold War.
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BBC Sounds
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Witness History. Murder at the Berlin Wall. Audio, 9 minutes
In March 1974, Polish man Czesław Kukuczka was shot by a Stasi officer at the Berlin Wall
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BBC World Service
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The Reunion. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. Audio, 57 minutes
Kirsty Wark is joined by witnesses recalling the day the Berlin Wall came down.
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BBC Radio 4
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Witness History. The man who smuggled punk rock across the Berlin Wall. Audio, 9 minutes
How punk rock band Die Toten Hosen secretly played a concert in East Berlin.
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BBC World Service
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1963: Radio Newsreel - The Kennedy Brothers Visit Berlin. Audio, 00:03:24
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BBC
Posted
21 June 2024
1989: Brandenburg Gate re-opens. Video, 00:01:43
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BBC
Posted
14 June 2024
1990: Checkpoint Charlie dismantled. Video, 00:02:31
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BBC
Posted
10 June 2024
1961: News - The Berlin Boundary Is Sealed. Video, 00:01:56
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BBC
Posted
5 June 2024
1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Audio, 00:09:28
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BBC
Posted
4 June 2024
1961: News - Ed Murrow on the Berlin Situation. Video, 00:01:58
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BBC
Posted
31 May 2024
1997: East German leader guilty of Berlin Wall deaths. Video, 00:01:25
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BBC
Posted
24 May 2024
1989: The Berlin Wall. Video, 00:03:47
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BBC
Posted
14 May 2024
1961: The Berlin crisis. Audio, 00:03:30
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BBC
Posted
9 May 2024
1961: Panorama looks at the new Berlin Wall. Video, 00:11:21
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BBC
Posted
1 May 2024
Murder trial 50 years after Berlin Wall shooting
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Europe
Posted
14 March 2024
Turning Point. The Fall. Audio, 57 minutes
The story of the mistake that caused one of the crucial turning points of the 20th century
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BBC Radio 4
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Ex-Stasi officer charged with 1974 Berlin murder
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Europe
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12 October 2023
Witness History. Treehouse on the Berlin Wall. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1982 a Turkish worker in Germany built a treehouse against the Berlin Wall
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BBC World Service
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Witness History. Battle for the capital: Bonn v Berlin. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and Germany decided which city would be the new capital
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BBC World Service
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On This Day. 22 Dec 1989: Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate reopens. Audio, 2 minutes
East and West Berlin leaders meet as symbol of Cold War division is opened to the public.
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BBC
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Arts & Ideas. Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales. Audio, 45 minutes
Novelist Ian McEwan and researchers into early warning system archives join Anne McElvoy
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BBC Radio 4
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Germany shuns Russia, reversing decades of ever-closer ties
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Europe
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15 March 2022
Witness History. A Cold War love affair. Audio, 9 minutes
The story of a West German woman who crossed the Iron Curtain for love.
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BBC World Service
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