Eight writers journey along critical frontiers.
This time last year, John Wells was travelling along what was then called the Iron Curtain. Author, actor and satirist, he has had a long love affair with most things German. This journey turned out to be a final, unrepeatable glimpse of life under the cold warriors.
Crossing into the east, John Wells met communists who thought change was impossible. They believed in the fence because it protected them, they said. What will protect them now that their certainties have crumbled?
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