October 16, 2019

17 minutes

Available for over a year

“That’s the first time I saw her again.” Wolfdieter's show trial begins.

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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