BERLIN
March 2012
‘Their grandparents fled the Nazis, their parents boycotted all things German, but their children are flocking to Berlin’
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July/August 2010
'Perhaps tying works of art to their originating topography is vulgar and needs to be kept discreet. But history needs Nabokov. During the artistically formative years, he lived here in the 1920s and 1930s, he peerlessly described how Berlin's 300,000 Russian émigrés endured life after the Bolshevik Revolution.'
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July/August 2010
For today's Friday Historical afternoon, here's one of my favourite songs from The Comedian Harmonists - the smash-hit singing sextet of Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s, subsequently ban
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July/August 2010
I am off to Berlin tomorrow to interview Nigel Kennedy after his jazz gig at the Brandenburg Gate, which is part of the closing celebrations of the World Athletics Championships. It
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