Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

telly we share what we've been watching

Cladie Aide.

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds

This is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

And all this week to mark 60 years since the building of the Berlin Wall,

we're bringing you programs about East Germany during the Cold War,

and about the city of Berlin which came to symbolise a Europe divided between East and West, between communism and capitalism. In November 1976 East Germany's most

famous singer-songwriter was exiled to the West.

In East Germany he has been silenced, but some of his songs have been recorded and circulate in both

Germanies. Volf Beerman was born in 1936 in Hamburg in what became West Germany to

communist parents. My mother had very modest

and uniform.

My mother had very modest ambitions for her son.

She just wanted me to save the world and

build up communism or as she put it avenge my father who'd fought against the Nazis

and been murdered and so at 16 and a half in 1953, I went to East Germany, and I was surprised to find so many people coming back towards me in the other direction.

In the early 1950s, the border between the two Germany's was still open but many in the

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