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Last broadcast on Sun, 15 Nov 2009, 16:56 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news in 1989.
Chancellor John Major gives his first Autumn Statement - City analysts predict gloom for the 90s; Lech Walesa, leader of Poland's reformist Solidarity party, lobbies the US Senate for financial aid; Mikhail Gorbachev warns the West not to try exporting capitalism to the East.
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
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Sun 15 Nov 200916:56
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