Tunnel 29 - Ep 8. The Messenger
Intrigue
BBC
4.6 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
I said "ok, I'll do it”. Ellen, Mimmo's girlfriend, agrees to play a dangerous role.
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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| 0:58.0 | And we pushed him down onto the ground and tied his hands behind his back. He was shouting, what are you doing? |
| 1:04.2 | You held Renata's hands. |
| 1:06.3 | Four, five seconds. |
| 1:08.6 | That's it. |
| 1:09.6 | We saw that we were just under a street called Schoenholzer Strasse. |
| 1:13.4 | It was just two streets away from the wall. |
| 1:15.9 | It was so close it was patrolled by border guards. |
| 1:21.0 | From BBC Radio 4, this is Tunnel 29. I'm Helena Merriman. Chapter 8, The Messenger. |
| 1:27.0 | Joachim Haso and Ullie are down in the tunnel. |
| 1:33.4 | They spent days trying to work out whether or not to abandon it, |
| 1:36.4 | and finally they've made a decision. |
| 1:39.0 | They're giving it one last shot, |
| 1:41.1 | and so now they're digging the final few yards to the cellar in the east |
| 1:44.4 | the one they know nothing about the one that's in a street that's patrol by |
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