29th August 2016
Imperial College
Proms Extra 29 August 2016
17.45 pm
As the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra performs at the Proms, novelist Philip Kerr and historian Karen Leeder talk about East and West Germany, their differences and similarities and how massive peaceful demonstrations in Leipzig in 1989 triggered the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Edited version broadcast on BBC Radio 3 during the interval