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Flying over Berlin in 1991 – aerial shots taken by a helicopter Berlin 1990 the end of the war (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) – home movies shot by Derek Williams, who was in Berlin to see the Pink Floyd concert. The BBC has a very useful web resource on Tunnel 29. The excellent podcast …

Collective (2020) – a heart wrenching account of how public officials and investigative journalists sought to bring awareness and justice for the 64 people who were killed, and 146 who were injured, in a preventable nightclub fire in 2015. How did Ceaușescu’s rule of Romania come to an end? – a 20 minute account of …

Welcome to my four part series on transition. Join me to understand more about the transition from communism to capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe, and the battle between the Russian oligarchs and the current Putin regime. You can view this as a video series here: Or listen to it through SoundCloud (below) or through …