In July 1945, eight weeks after the end of the war in Europe, the Western Allies arrived in Berlin to take up their assigned sectors. Few could have imagined that 40 years later they would still be there; and that the former capital of Hitler's Third Reich would not only be split ideologically but also divided physically by 100 miles of concrete wall.
In tonight's film
Lord Chalfont, who served in West Berlin during the Cold War as a senior officer in Allied intelligence, revisits this amazingly vigorous half-city and looks at the curious lifestyle and rituals of a community which has survived a whole range of crises - but which is still one of the world's most likely political flashpoints. Film editor RICK SPURWAY
Produced by HANNEN FOSS and MANFRED STRASTIL
Directed by MALCOLM BROWN