series babylon berlin enjoys world wide success. best big me up the norm. i think interest has continued because these things are simply still valid within that's one thing what was important and fashionable in the nineteen twenty s of things people read and watch are still a good amount and so when you see the films from the period they have an unbelievable energy in the months it still goes silent film simply blow you away. in the book it's the text by boris profiler and the illustrations by will that bring one thousand nine hundred twenty s. berlin alive again it comes with an accompanying music cd. but the one nine hundred twenty s. weren't just about hedonism this was an era of sweeping change in many respects. politics. work. poverty. sports. and fashion you stop this i don't see. the roaring twenty's were only a golden age in the city for one specific group. for most other people they were very dark difficult years most people had no social support network and didn't really have much to laugh about it it's still night life was extremely important ext

more pressure and you grow into it and it's up to the office and i'm glad that my first novel babylon berlin wasn't immediately a huge success i mean to have otherwise i would have had to keep chasing that success and even under bush going to cross did that his whole life because of the tin drum. it was kind of tragic luckily i didn't suffer the same fate though i'll never win a nobel prize. this is. the one of the earliest forms of writing ever this is about five thousand years b.c. . and these little marks on it were written by. an architect and these things used to they used to put them in middle holes in the bill in the building that they'd made and it was a description of who the architect was and it was like a little autobiography or a little like a little brass plaque on the wall. that's right. it you know i think it's good to have a really early writing in front of you when when you're doing this because it just reminds you that really. it's the only thing if you that will maybe lost. so much money and. i'm going out. my character meeting me would be a pretty horrific experience he'd

a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in babylon most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several berlin museums taking part in the project called a meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life here part of life is culture. i'm sam. with a look at the headlines here now does era now that these forty people have been killed or more than one hundred injured in a blast in the afghan capital the taliban has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing using an ambulance near the old interior ministry building jennifer glass has more from kabul. the emergency vehicles they're taking off the dead and wounded in this bombing it happened just around the corner at the second checkpoint this is a heavily guarded street the target appears to be the high peace council that's where the gate is that area is also home to t