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Bernstein in Berlin

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Last broadcast on Sun, 31 Aug 2008, 20:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

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Series in which Paul Gambaccini recalls classic concerts.

On Christmas Day 1989, six weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Leonard Bernstein conducted a band of musicians and singers from East and West in a celebratory performance of Beethoven's Choral Symphony.

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  1. Fri 29 Aug 2008
    13:30
  2. Sun 31 Aug 2008
    20:00

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