London Calling: Cold War Letters
For over 25 years, the BBC gave voice to the silenced folks of East Germany by inviting them to secretly write in to a radio programme known as Letters with out Signature. Broadcast on the BBC’s German Service, the programme gave voice to bizarre East German residents who wrote about life underneath the repressive communist regime. On the 30th anniversary of the autumn of the Berlin Wall, this documentary explores an unknown story of the Chilly Conflict. It seems on the influence of the Letters with out Signature collection on each the letter writers in East Germany – who confronted jail if found – and the producers of the present in London, significantly its mysterious presenter, Austin Harrison. Utilizing never-before-seen Stasi information and recordings, London Calling: Chilly Conflict Letters paperwork the tit-for-tat propaganda warfare between the Stasi and BBC. It reveals an interesting world of spies, secret state subterfuge and particular person acts of bravery.
