with Andrew Sachs
Andrew Sachs was 8 years old when one day in 1938 his parents took him and his brother and sister to the circus and then on for a family meal at a Berlin restaurant called Wagon Knecht. What happened there ended a happy childhood and his family's life in Berlin. Andrew revisits his old home, talks to people who knew him in those days and returns to the restaurant to tell the story of what happened that night in 1938 and of the nerve-racking days which followed.
With his wife Melody (who's learning German), he finds out how it might have been if his family had stayed - through devastating Allied bombing, the enactment of the Final Solution and the division of Berlin into two cities.
Research KATRIN KOHL Film editor BEN MORRIS
Producer BERNARD ADAMS (e)
(A series teaching beginners German, 'Deutsch Direkt', begins on Sunday 16 October on BBC1)
0 LEARNING AT HOME: pages 74-77