Intrigue: Tunnel 29 – BBC Radio 4

In October 1961, a few months after engineering student Joachim Rudolph escaped into West Berlin, he joined a deadly scheme to help others like him who were trapped just a few miles away. Along with a handful of other students, Joachim planned to dig a tunnel under the Berlin Wall, creating a route to free friends and family living under a brutal Communist dictatorship on the other side. Helena Merriman creates and narrates this remarkable true story of a rescue mission carried out at the dead of night against terrifying odds. With a brooding sense of tension, and the Stasi lurking at every corner, you’ll be hooked from the out.

Listen on BBC Radio 4

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