a few hours. poured into west berlin the 1st step towards this country's unification. to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the wall demise berlin has events happening all over the city in historic locations and one of the. side gallery and my colleague david leavitt's is down there now for us hi david can you tell us just where you are exactly and what it might have been like 30 years ago right karen well the east side gallery is the biggest stretch of the berlin wall that is still standing there very few of them and this is the biggest and tonight it's not just a wall it is a projection screen for a film about the berlin wall where better to watch this film to now where i'm standing right now is not always an outdoor cinema this was what was known as the death strip and 30 years ago if i'd been standing here i would have been shot dead

by east german border guards either from the towers around me or from patrol boats on the river behind me now behind me you can see these little blue posts these mark the border itself which is this part of the city was directly in the river and 10 people died just here trying to cross from communist east berlin into the west in total over a 1000 people died trying to escape east germany and so it's really no wonder that in 1909 when the border opened people came down to the wall with. picks with hammers and they wanted to just get rid of the wall and the only reason that this stretch of the wall survived is down to the efforts of a group of artists. the east time gallery was started in february $990.00. artists were invited to paint an original portion of the berlin wall back then the initiative was designed to help east german artists who had suddenly

been left without an income but in those exciting days of the former communist state opening up artists came from all over the world. when berlin was divided it was common for people on the western side to draw graffiti on the wall but on the eastern side people approached at their peril the wall became more and more fortified with heavily armed guards tripwires searchlights and lookout towers border guards ordered to shoot to kill anyone who tried to escape and more than 100 people were killed trying to cross the border in berlin alone just a few months after those instruments of oppression were dismantled the east side gallery turned the symbol of terror into a canvas for free expression some of the artworks have become famous around the world because the gallery is exposed to the weather the images of her to be restored or even repainted several times today the east side gallery is

a popular tourist destination. and certainly a great place to take a snapshot david and a great story of this piece a wall and i understand you've got someone there with you who has been involved in the creation of the gallery from the very beginning. that's right karen i'm here with christine mcclain she was the manager of the east side gallery at the time of its creation christine i just saw a little clip in the film behind us an artist saying for her the wall was always a nightmare and being able to paint on it transformed it into a dream what's your reactions about 30 years later well our feeling at the time was that we transformed the world that we healed this part of the wall is not the same as the wall in there and i wish process which is in mind of the terror this was actually more the feelings that people had of joy wishing for something better hope for a better world and those are the emotions that the artist put into most of the paintings

. now. you can help create this project at a time when people were tearing the wall down people didn't want to see the wall anymore why did you want to preserve this 1300 metre stretch of it i think is really important to me also it was really important to preserve a piece especially this size because how can you imagine if you were even born then or if you didn't know what the wall was late you cannot get the feeling you can get emotional thinking well what would it be like to live behind this so i think it was really really important i think people appreciate not no decent this piece still exists and you were telling me earlier you were fighting to keep this piece of the wall even in 1900 after it was painted yet because in the middle of 1990 s. or she's told us oh this is got to go by the end of the year we so well we're halfway through painting it and you want to take it because that's what they told us so as a solution we thought right what we'll do is was sent on a world to not my son crazy but we close it and it was going to be practically possible and then we hoped that once

a tube was over the bam and authorities might have given us a different place for it to be placed and if that wasn't going to happen then it was going to be auctioned off and 50 percent of proceeds going to charity we never had to do that or to you know fortunately changed their minds and still here. now you lived here in berlin at the time the wall fell you were working at the british embassy. in east berlin living in west berlin so you were crossing the border every day what was it like for you looking back 30 years ago when the wall fell. when i worked in the embassy i crossed checkpoint charlie affinity but it wasn't as a normal person might see because when you worked in the embassy you had different number plates you went through different channels but when i started working here. it was well familiar because i knew i had been here before. thank you so much for talking to us kristin mclean you have a memoir out it's called 2 berlins one was never to have in the english and german

because i've written to my memoirs from 79 and then. and what happened. between then and i thank you for talking to christine mclean thank you back to you carol. thanks very much to christine mclean 1st of all and also to you david it does look like there's a fabulous atmosphere down there and almost makes me wish i could be down there mouth south and i'm thinking even despite all of the people and the artwork and the new developments that there is definitely still the ability to get a sense of history in the place so thanks very much for bringing us that story from the east side gallery thanks to both of you. for fans of our series baking bread we haven't forgotten that this lot is reserved for our weekly dose of dough less time my colleague has ventured into danish bread culture which of course

makes a lot of sense since the danes also make very good butter and to make his extremely substantial loaf of danish prime bread the organ listed some high powered help from the highest echelons of. the key ingredient for this bread is rice our dough and you'll need 60 grams of it. you can make it yourself or you can go. in dangerous some. so i met up with a danish e.u. commissioner my creative very often people say oh and i have some of your sourdough you can see the problem as always if you want to restart the sourdough so you've been feeding that somewhat all for years yes and i got it from denmark here to brussels in order to make sure that there was something that would feel like home so here is how the tax lady that's what all trump calls the use competition commissioner makes for bread you mix the sourdough with 690000000 liters of

lukewarm water 60 grams of salt 30 grams of molasses 375 grams of medium rifle hours and 375 grams of crack try then leave it all for about 12 hours at room temperature plenty of time to cycle to neighboring sweden relax in a danish design a house all pick a fight with the tech giant today the commission has decided to find google 2400000000 euros for preaching e.u. anti trust groups. when best target came back from that particular press conference in 2017 she cracked out the booze and actually baked this very wry bread. so combined $150.00 millimeters of beer and 150 grams of brown bread flour with

a preliminary dole and mix them solely to grease the bread pan with butter and scatter it with oats. tipped the dough and flatten it down. now step the dough several times. and release all that negative energy. some people they say oh no i do mindfulness i do yoga i do something else for me i distress by producing something. so no i think no matter whatever i will do in the future i will keep making and dish out fines at the same rate when will you fire the office next. well i have to fire the oval much more often that we can hand out a fine fine almost stree wwww in yours so judging by the number of trust cases she's dealing with best tiger must be in the kitchen most days. of snow moving how the toll rises to the top of the

pan is remarkably soon. after this 90 minute ritual bake the bread for 80 minutes 1st at 230 degrees celsius 10 minutes in reduce the temperature to 190 degrees celsius 10 minutes before cooking time is up remove the bread from the pan and bake for a further 10 minutes this will make the bread firm and robust like the danes it won't keep you going for a very long time and if anyone would lift this bed there was a oh this is this is substantial that's been put some effort into this is what we're going primarily on time so yes i think there is there is some. there are some similarities we don't think things like the and this spreads not like either before we find out what the commissioner makes of this bread i have to hand one of my

special baking so the next time. another tech giant is up for fine gas then i'll go man hour put it on and. have completed this for 6 months look at possible mess we should like to remind you very much this is a very good server part of this is very very good. that does bring us all. getting to the end of this edition of arts and culture but our coverage of the anniversary events for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the wall will continue all this week and i will leave you with some pictures of that crazy night in 1989 from berlin remembering such a heady time all the best to you and bob i.

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