Tunnel 29 - Ep 10. The Shoes
Intrigue
BBC
4.6 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
“I started dancing with Eveline.” A final twist in the final chapter.
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Helena Merriman tells the extraordinary true story of a man who dug a tunnel into the East, right under the feet of border guards, to help friends, family and strangers escape. The series is based on original interviews with the survivors as well as thousands of documents from the Stasi archives and recordings from the tunnel.
Producer & Presenter: Helena Merriman Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore Translation and additional research: Sabine Schereck Editor: Richard Knight Joachim Rudolph's original interviews voiced by Mark Edel Hunt
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| 1:06.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. podcasts. I crouched down on all fours and then someone one of the tunlers took my baby and I started crawling. I could hear them all reassuring her as she crawled through. |
| 1:09.2 | I remember something strange. |
| 1:11.3 | I never heard her baby cry once. I heard this strange sound. It |
| 1:16.8 | got louder and louder and then suddenly I fainted. He already had a gun in his |
| 1:21.8 | hand and so he pulled it out, pointed it at the man and shouted, |
| 1:26.0 | Get your hands up. |
| 1:30.0 | From BBC Radio 4, this is Tunnel 29. I'm Helena Merriman. |
| 1:34.0 | Chapter 10 The Shoes. |
| 1:38.0 | It's now late in the evening and the tunnel is filling with water. |
| 1:43.0 | On the western end of it you've got all the escapees. |
| 1:46.0 | They're sitting huddle together, catching their breath after crawling 400 meters through a wet tunnel. |
| 1:52.0 | And then back in the east there's Joachim and |
| 1:55.6 | Haso, two of the diggers, and they're standing by the cellar door waiting for |
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