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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: New Thinking: Rubble culture to techno in post-war Germany
Description: As the 30th anniversary of the Berlin wall falling is marked on November 9th we rummage for stories amid the rubble. What were school teachers in Berlin pre-occupied with when the checkpoints were overrun? What would happen to the dogs of British forces families if the Cold War kicked off? Why was the poet Stephen Spender tasked with the ‘de-Nazification’ of German universities? And how does any of this relate to a 90s techno club in an air raid shelter?Our host, New Generation Thinker Dr Tom Charlton, weaves together new research on different aspects of post-war and...