Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.

My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices.

What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,

poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.

If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC

Sounds.

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 aider. 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 watching.

Listen on BBC Sounds.

Hi and thanks for downloading Witness the History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Lucy Burns and today I'm taking you back to November 1976 when East Germany's most

famous singer-songwriter was exiled to the West, causing an international outcry.

Volf Beerman has been telling me about his years of conflict with the East German state.

Volf Beerman, the young East German poet and singer who has been compared to the pop protest

singers of the West. In East Germany he has been silenced, but some of his songs have been

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