“I choose the codename Fred.” A hairdresser becomes a Stasi spy.
“I choose the codename Fred.” A hairdresser becomes a Stasi spy.
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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- Tue 22 Oct 201913:45BBC Radio 4
- Tue 21 Apr 202009:45BBC Radio 4 FM
- Wed 22 Apr 202000:30BBC Radio 4
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