Second of two programmes which tell the story which led up to the events of 9 November 1989 and the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

Members of the East German Politburo, policemen who were given arms to fire on dissidents, the man on the gate that opened the way to crowds flooding through, and Mikhail Gorbachev whose change of policy enabled it to happen, all tell exactly how one of the great events of 20th-century history came to happen.