First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
With Hitler now chancellor, Jewish families, including the Alexanders, have been forced to flee Germany. The lake house is to become home to a new family, the Meisels. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Exhausted and looking for respite from life in Berlin, Dr Alfred Alexander leases a plot of land in the village of Gross Glienicke and builds a holiday home by the lake. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
With Germany now split into East and West, the Meisels are no longer able to visit the lake house. Ella Fuhrman and her children move in. But soon, they are not the only tenants. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
The lake house is now home to the Kuhne family, but the Berlin wall runs right across the bottom of the garden, cutting the house off from the lake. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
It is 1991, and the Berlin Wall is being demolished. Things will never be quite the same for the residents of Gross Glienicke, and the future of the house by the lake is uncertain. Show more
