Tunnel 29 - Ep 6. The Gun
Intrigue
BBC
4.6 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
“And then my interrogation began.” The escape operation unravels.
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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| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.0 | BBC Sounds Music music radio podcasts. And then somehow I can't remember how. We heard about another tunnel which had been dug right into the east, but it had been abandoned by the people digging it. |
| 1:04.0 | We discussed music and beetles and sports and normal things but on the other hand we discussed |
| 1:11.0 | about the great questions of life. |
| 1:13.0 | The breakthrough at the border will take place between 4 and 7 p.m. on the 7th of August. |
| 1:19.0 | All together, 100 people are expected. |
| 1:22.0 | Three lorries will be used to take them to a house near the border. |
| 1:26.5 | From there they'll go to West Berlin. |
| 1:28.8 | We gathered up everything we'd need, an axe, a saw, a hammer, and some walkie-talkies, so we could keep in touch with the rest of the team back in the West. |
| 1:37.0 | And then we added weapons. From BBC Radio 4, this is Tunnel 29, I'm Helena Merriman. Chapter 6, The Gun. |
| 1:49.3 | Before we start, we're going to freeze time. |
| 1:52.3 | Leave everyone right where they are on the 7th of August, 1962, |
| 1:56.0 | at around 5 in the evening. |
| 1:58.0 | In East Berlin, in the grounds of a factory you've got 43 people being held by Stasi officers, |
| 2:07.4 | men, women and children who all thought they'd be in the West by now. |
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