with almost 40,000 kilometres of track, germany s rail network is the longest in europe, which makes it the perfect place to explore by train. but from berlin s vast central station, train. but from berlin s vast centralstation, i m train. but from berlin s vast central station, i m taking an even cheaperform of central station, i m taking an even cheaper form of transport for a spot of sightseeing. all right, we re doing it. we are crossing the tramway. fabulous. 0h, crossing the tramway. fabulous. oh, it s beautiful. i can see the tower on my left. and it s so cloudy, the tip of it is just unseen. alexander platts is these days the touristic heart of the capital. until 1989, it was the main public square in communist east berlin. i was born in 1990, which is a year after the berlin wall came down, so for myself and i m sure for a generation younger, there is no recollection of those news events. so being able to be here and just get a sense of what it might have been like i
Judi dench, welcome to this cultural life. Thank you, john. You were born in 193a and grew up in york. Set the scene for us. What was family life like . My father was a doctor. And i had two brothers, older than me. And of course, at that time, no television, nothing like that. So we all had bikes and we made our own entertainment. My second brother, jeff, only ever wanted to be an actor. My oldest brother wanted to be a doctor, like dad, and i wanted to be a designer, scenic designer. Thats what i set out to be. From a young age . From quite a young age, because we were taken to the theatre a lot, you know, we were taken to. I remember once going to see a cuckoo in the nest, and i laughed so. This couple was in bed and suddenly a chest at the end of the bed opened and a man stood up in vest and pants. And i was sick. I laughed so much, i was sick. My mother had to take me home. But the wonderful thing is that i was taken back a couple of nights later to see what happened. They laugh m
but there s one thing about them that could still be greener the way they re made and what they re made from. this is stilride one. it has one very unusual feature. its chassis is made from one piece of steel. all the curves, all the lines have been folded like origami, following a design by its creator tue beijer. with the curve folding, we dance with the metal. the reason is notjust about aesthetics. see, a typical scooter is assembled in special factories from more than 100 parts, and then it s shipped around the world. but for this bike, all that would need to be sent anywhere is the design. because a bike, if you would send a bike in a crate, you re shipping air. you don t want to ship air. whether you re in sweden, you re in england, you ll probably find sheet metal, right? so it s better to send the code rather than to send yourfinal product. that s a very, very efficient way to do it, you know? so you want to produce near the end customer. i ve been given permission
So, what happened in vuhledar . People back home wanted answers. Bbc eye looked into The Black Berets claims. Its difficult to interview soldiers or theirfamilies in russia. They face years in jail for discrediting the army. But online, theres a trail of evidence. Piecing together online testimonies, Death Records and battle footage, we found that the 155 did suffer heavy losses in vuhledar. We found reasons why these men died. Such kind of Breaching Operations are suicide. And we found out what happened to those caught up in the battle. Ramaz gorgadze was a stubborn young russian. His mother says he was born this way, an iron character with georgian roots. She says he was impossible to argue with. He grew up like any other young russian in a small village called yagodnoye, located in russias far east province. As a young teenager, he developed a passion for rap. Raps in russian he took this passion with him during his one Year National service. Raps. And became Popular Online for his
and said, it s a really interesting subject and i thought, yeah, it has i haven t really talked about it and i wanted to get my side of the story out because i think we weren t given enough credit for what we did. and also, i think when you read the book, it s about the sense of community that s not really in football any more not in the top six or anything like that. it s gone from football a bit, but not with the lower clubs. but i just love that sense of community, and that s what football must never lose. you started your interest in football when you were very young. very young. your dad brought you here. yeah, my dad brought me here when i was about six, five or six. but i also used to sit on the touchline at craven cottage because my cousin, roy dwight, played for fulham in the same team asjimmy hill, bedford jezzard, johnny haynes, tony macedo. so, i grew up watching fulham a lot as well but this was my local team and then, when roy went to nottingham forest,