Blind Man Roams the Globe: Berlin

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Peter White explores Berlin through the sounds of a city that is finding new and imaginative ways to mark its troubled past and plan for its fast expanding future. He is struck by how much it is still haunted by the past. He idles on street corners to absorb the voices around him and he is struck by a familiar lament: people worrying about how much longer they will be able to afford to live in a city with fast rising property prices prompted in part by an influx of foreign investors. His guide is a fellow blind-man, entrepreneur Erich Thurner, who shares the concerns as he contemplates his own future in Berlin.

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0:00.0	Hello from the BBC World Service and welcome to the latest edition of the
0:05.0	documentary podcast. Every week we bring you a range of stories from our
0:09.8	presenters and reporters across the world.
0:13.0	If you have the time, please rate the documentary on your podcast app and leave us a comment.
0:18.1	Let us know what you think.
0:20.2	It's a beautifully sunny morning here in Berlin, which is rather pleasant because I've just flown out from a rainy Manchester in England.
0:28.0	I want to get to the centre of town. I'm here at the airport airport and any sensible blind person would get into a taxi
0:36.0	but I don't like to do that because the public transport of a city tells me more about it than
0:42.2	almost anything else.
0:45.2	Hello, um, which is the best train to get into the center?
0:50.4	The center?
0:51.4	Center of Berlin.
0:51.8	With the S9.
0:53.0	S from the right side?
0:54.8	Yes.
0:55.8	Tert to us Christ.
0:57.2	You buy a ticket for tour hour and you can go to the center of Dauchuban.
1:01.8	You can buy it down square from the ticket machine.
1:04.0	Right okay will there be a person there or have I got to be able to work this machine. I've volunteered someone who doesn't speak any English.
1:21.0	Here, I'll give you those.
1:24.0	So what do I really know about
1:29.0	about Berlin or what are my prejudices?
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