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Peter Millar

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Episode 1: Peter Millar

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Colin Blane hears the story of Peter Millar, who was monitored by the Stasi.

Colin Blane hears the story of Peter Millar, who was monitored by the Stasi during the 1980s while working for the Sunday Times in East Germany.

When Peter Millar arrived in East Germany in 1981 he had little more than a German A-level. When he left a decade later, codenamed 'Streamer' he had Stasi file thicker than an edition of The Sunday Times, for whom he was working. Colin Blane hears how the fall of The Berlin Wall would be a story that would live with Peter for the rest of his life.

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