Max Pearson
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1,342 appearances
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
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Like, how can the Pope do that?
And I think that this scandal really turned out to more dialogue and pushing the boundaries for the peaceful message of, I want to dialogue with you.
You are my brother's.
That's Paulina Guzik, international editor at the Catholic Wire Service, OSV.
Next, one of the defining events of the late 20th century, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany.
Jacqueline Payne takes us back to 1989, when the symbolic collapse of communism took the world completely by surprise and paved the way for East and West Germany to become one country again in less than a year.
It's the evening of the 9th of November 1989 and at checkpoints along the Berlin Wall, East German border guards are overwhelmed by crowds of people after a government official mistakenly announces the lifting of all travel restrictions.
That's Joachim Bitterlich, at the time European advisor to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
He's watching events unfold from Kohl's office in Bonn, as reported by the BBC.
But Kohl himself isn't here.
He's on an official visit to Poland.
And there's a frantic few hours as his team try to reach him.
Returning to West Berlin the following evening, Kohl sets out his vision for the future of Germany.
He's telling the world we are one nation and we belong together.
By 1989, hopes were fading on both sides of the wall that their countries would ever be unified again, resigning themselves to two separate states after East and West Germany were split in 1949.
Helmut Kohl had never given up on his dream of a united Germany, but what people didn't know was that just months earlier he'd raised the issue with the Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev.
For the moment, it's like a flood, it's going on, but there will be moments where we will have to reflect and to reflect about European unity and German unity.
It will happen.
The only question is when.
In the background are immense fears that an enlarged Germany could again destabilise Europe.
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