When the Wall came down

“Those of us of a certain vintage will remember watching the live pictures of the wall coming down twenty years ago” wrote Ian Dale.


And some of us are even old enough to remember it going up – it makes me feel very old to learn that Master Dale was not even born then.

I longed to go to see it coming down in 1989, but no easyJet or bargain break city weekends in those days. No second runway at Manchester airport. A long and/or expensive tedious trip in other words, involving time off work.

I decieded it was not worth it.

And it is strange to find that I really have had more than I want in terms of radio reminiscence. We overdo anniversaries.

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