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Case History: 2

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Professor Roy Porter examines four episodes in the 20th century when the state of a leader affected the state of a nation.

As East Germany faced turmoil at the end of the eighties, her leader Erich Honecker lay in a hospital bed and the Politburo was paralysed. What role did his failing health play in the fall of the Berlin Wall?

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Presenter:
Professor Roy Porter
Producer:
Ian Bell
Source: Radio Times

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