Old Newscast: The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989 (Part 1)

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  BBC Sounds. Music, radio, podcasts.

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  Hello.

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  It's another instalment of our experiment, Old Newscast,

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  where we take what we do every day on Newscast with the day's news,

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  but apply it to a day from the recent past.

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  And we had lots of requests for this one.

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  The 9th of November, 1989, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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  So if you suggested that, thank you very much.

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  It's been absolutely fascinating.

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  Quick bit of geography.

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  So it's the end of the Second World War.

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  Germany gets divided in two.

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  West Germany has a market economy and democracy.

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  East Germany is allied with the Soviet Union, run on communist lines,

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  and there's no real democracy to speak of.

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  Slap bang in the middle of East Germany, though, is the city of Berlin.

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  And that has been split in two.

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  East Berlin is fully part of East Germany.

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  West Berlin is basically a little bit of West Germany, but stuck in the middle of East Germany.

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  And it's administered by the United States, Great Britain and France.

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