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Hello, you're listening to The We Are History Podcasts. I always laugh when introduce it, because regular listeners will know that it means John and I have just messed up counting backwards from five and clapping.

They didn't teach me that at school.

It just makes me laugh every time.

Yeah, an interest in history should not involve counting backwards and clapping.

That's too hard.

What they've done, John, is they've taken a couple of nerds like us and expected us to be coordinated.

It's never going to happen.

I always try and do my five, four, three, two, one like thunderbirds.

I'm picturing each thunderbird as I do it.

Hence the pyjamas, I see. Okay, fine.

So this week, John, we are going back to 1989.

It's a huge subject.

It's a huge one.

It's a big subject.

And I think we should make clear from the off that this is going to be very much an overview of a lot of things that happened in 1989.

It's all about the sort of start of the fall of communism. Yes, in Eastern Europe. This is my area of nerdiness. Yeah. I think both of us

find this completely fascinating and it was an incredibly dramatic thing to watch from Western Europe.

Yeah.

Probably, I would say, the biggest political year in our lifetime for world events.

Absolutely.

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