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16th October 1989
The financial markets recover after Friday's Wall Street crash, averting another Black Monday; rehearsals begin for the first televised coverage of parliament.
Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago.
The financial markets recover after Friday's Wall Street crash, averting another Black Monday; rehearsals begin for the first televised coverage of parliament; 120,000 East Germans gather in Leipzig for the largest anti-government demonstration in the nation's history.
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
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