Tunnel 29 - Ep 2. The Spy

Intrigue

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

“I choose the codename Fred.” A hairdresser becomes a Stasi spy.

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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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:06.8	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Fladiated.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:25.0	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.0	BBC Sounds Music music radio podcasts. The Ere, E air, one-s lily, the great set in Berliner-6 to...
0:55.0	Only a few yards from freedom,
0:58.0	people watch gravely from flats as the ceiling off when dawn.
1:01.0	And that's when I decided to escape.
1:03.0	And then we saw this path.
1:05.0	We turned a corner and came across a small group of houses,
1:12.0	but there was no street sign.
1:15.0	Inside there was a man wearing a uniform.
1:20.0	We stood there just looking at him.
1:22.0	We don't know what to do and then suddenly his eyes opened.
1:27.0	From BBC Radio 4, this is Tunnel 29, I'm Helena Merriman.
1:34.0	Chapter 2, The Spy.
1:37.0	He lifted the window, leaned forward and said,
1:42.0	Boys, where have you come from in the middle of the night?
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