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Iron Curtain Goes Wild, 3rd of 3 [audio 30min]

Writer, historian and television presenter Neil Oliver walks the Iron Curtain from Trieste on the Adriatic to Lubeck on the Baltic. The watchtowers and barbed wire which divided Europe for 40 years have become the world's longest nature reserve. Neil travels through the once divided city of Berlin on the way to Lubeck, where so many East Germans perished attempting the deceptively short swim from East to West.
Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "Iron Curtain Goes Wild"