Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago.

The communist authorities in the GDR are buckling under the pounding they are taking in the streets; 8,000 troops celebrate 72 years of the Bolshevik Revolution in Red Square but protestors carry banners saying '72 years on the road to nowhere'; the Church of England Synod votes to ordain women priests.

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. Show less