βWe had no chance to be together.β The Stasi close in on the tunnellers.
βWe had no chance to be together.β The diggers hatch a new plan, unaware the Stasi are onto them.
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Helena Merriman tells the extraordinary true story of a man who dug a tunnel into the East, right under the feet of border guards, to help friends, family and strangers escape. The series is based on original interviews with the survivors as well as thousands of documents from the Stasi archives and recordings from the tunnel.
Producer & Presenter: Helena Merriman
Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore
Translation and additional research: Sabine Schereck
Editor: Richard Knight
Joachim Rudolph's original interviews voiced by Mark Edel Hunt
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- Fri 25 Oct 2019 13:45ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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