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Last broadcast on Sat, 31 Oct 2009, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
John McCarthy explores Berlin with the head of tourism and a writer who lives there, and finds a forward-looking and vibrant city coming to terms with a turbulent past.
John also meets two former British soldiers who talk about their travelling life with the army.
Rory MacLean
Rory MacLean is a travel writer who’s known Berlin for about thirty years and has lived there for the past twelve months. Rory wrote the forward to a new book City-Lit Berlin, a kind of literary travel guide where the reader can find snatches of literature relevant to Berlin.
Berlin (City-Lit Series)
by Heather Reyes (Editor), Katy Derbyshire (Editor)
Publisher: Oxygen Books
ISBN-10: 0955970040
ISBN-13: 978-0955970047
Burkhard Kieker
Burkhard Kieker is the Head of the Berlin Tourist Board
Berlin Tourismus Marketing
Am Karlsbad 11
D-10785 Berlin
e-mail: information@visitBerlin.de
Tel: +49-(0)30-26 47 48-0
Music played at start of the programme
Title: Berlin,du bist so wunderbar
Artist: Kaiserbase
Label: Hansa
Charlie Bell and Ian Deacon
Charlie Bell and Ian Deacon are two former British soldiers who write under the non de plume Eddy Nugent. Their latest book The Map of Africa charts their army lives and travels. Charlie and Ian both trained in Harrogate for The Royal Corps of Signals but didn’t know each other until they met up in Belize. They recount some of their travel experiences and observations from their various tours of duty.
The Map of Africa
Eddy Nugent
Publisher: Monday Books
ISBN-10: 190630811X
ISBN-13: 978-1906308117
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Sat 31 Oct 200910:00
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