Germany, at the Centre

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Chris Bowlby explores how Germany found itself at the centre of Europe's migration crisis, and learns how the country has received successive waves of refugees since the 1940's.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is a BBC podcast.
0:02.0	You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use at BBCWorld Service.com slash
0:07.1	podcasts.
0:10.6	Hello I'm Chris Bulby and this is assignment on the BBC World Service.
0:15.0	I'm in Germany for stories and coffee, coffee and cakes and there were some
0:30.4	special biscuits here.
0:32.8	Fefecuchen, they're called.
0:36.0	Sunday afternoon in a flat in the German city of Castle,
0:39.7	reassuring family chat with coffee and copious cake.
0:43.0	And is this a traditional recipe?
0:45.0	Yes.
0:46.0	What's it?
0:47.0	Oh, but what's leesine?
0:48.0	Yeah.
0:49.0	Upper Sahelisia.
0:50.0	Yeah.
0:51.0	That's nine, uh. Spices.
0:53.0	But traditional Silesian flavours
0:57.0	trigger memory of sudden traumatic change.
1:00.0	In 1945, the oldest generation of this family were children in Silesia, now part of Poland, their
1:06.5	families home for generations.
1:08.8	Then overnight they became refugees.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.