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Outlook: Life Before and After the Berlin Wall

Uwe Tellkamp

11/11/2014

Life Before and After the Berlin Wall

BBC World Service - Outlook, Life Before and After the Berlin Wall

Author Uwe Tellkamp on life in East Germany and what he was doing as the Berlin Wall fell

Author Uwe Tellkamp on life in East Germany and what he was doing as the Berlin Wall fell.

Uwe Tellkamp is an author who was brought up in East Germany. He has used his family's experiences of the country's repressive communist regime as the basis of his prize winning novel called The Tower.

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James Wharton was one of the first openly gay British soldiers. He has written a book about his experiences called Out In The Army. 
 
Saad Haroon is a comedian from Pakistan who's just been voted the second funniest person in the world.

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