BBC Two

BBC Two is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964.

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Berliners

Three-part series in which actor Andrew Sachs explores Berlin, the city of his birth.

Berliners: West and East

17/10/1988

West and East

BBC One - Berliners, West and East

Berlin-born actor Andrew Sachs returns to the city to see the effects of the Wall. (1988)

Actor Andrew Sachs visits Berlin, the city of his birth, where he discovers for himself how the 99-mile-long wall has affected the city's landscape and its people. (1988)

Actor Andrew Sachs was born in Berlin. Returning there with his wife Melody, he discovers for himself how the 99-mile-long wall that encircles West Berlin has affected the city's landscape and its people. In East Berlin, he meets two actors: Wolf Kaiser, who worked with Bertolt Brecht, and Gerry Wolff, who spent the war in England as a member of the British Home Guard. The trip also gives Sachs the opportunity to visit family members and hear how they view the future of the Berlin Wall. (1988)

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The Gathering

15/09/1982

BBC Two - The Gathering

Programme filmed at the first world gathering of Jewish Holocaust survivors. (1982)

This programme was filmed at the first world gathering in Israel of Jewish Holocaust survivors, where people met to try to find lost family members and friends. (1982)

This programme was filmed at the first world gathering in Israel of Jewish Holocaust survivors, where people met to try to find lost family members and friends. We hear from several individuals who tell their own stories of terrible suffering, loss and the sometimes extraordinary will to survive. This programme was transmitted in 1982 in conjunction with a second documentary, Auschwitz and the Allies. (1982)

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