Tunnel 29 - Ep 3. The Deal

Intrigue

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

“We have a tunnel.” The diggers are on the hunt for money and make an unlikely alliance.

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.
0:29.0	BBC Sounds.
0:30.0	BBC Sounds Music music radio podcasts. We've been dreaming about this for weeks and now we've done it.
0:56.0	I voluntarily consent to actively support the security forces of the GDR and their righteous
1:01.9	fund. of the GDR and righteous. And I heard a knock on the door.
1:07.0	They wanted to build a tunnel. Tunnel.
1:18.0	From BBC Radio 4, this is Tunnel 29. I'm Helena Merriman.
1:20.0	Chapter 3 The Deal.
1:23.2	Question.
1:26.4	How do you build a tunnel under the most heavily guarded bit of land
1:29.4	in the world? How do you build a tunnel when you can't use any machines in case you're heard by the Stasi,
1:36.0	one of the most powerful secret police forces on Earth?
1:39.0	How do you do it when you have no crew and no tools?
1:42.0	How do you know which direction to dig in? How do you find people and tools when you have no crew and no tools? How do you know which direction to dig in?
1:43.2	How do you find people and tools when you have no money?
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