Tanya Heaslip

I did.

I was with a friend of mine from Adelaide Law School, Michael.

He was living in London.

I said, we've got to go tomorrow morning.

He said, I can't.

I've got a conference in Manchester.

I said, Michael, this is the most exciting moment of our lives.

So we went out.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Michael missed on the Berlin Wall falling because he had a conference in Manchester?

He was prepared to, but it didn't happen.

There was no way that was going to happen.

We went into a phone box and he rang his boss and made some lame excuse and we got the last two tickets on a plane into Berlin with all the world's media.

It was so exciting.

He didn't regret missing the conference.

When I got there, I went straight to the Berlin Wall.

And even though it was about, I don't know, eight or nine o'clock at night, people were still chipping away chunks off very merrily.

It was very, very merrily.

I've got a chunk from that time I chipped my own thing out.

What do you remember of the festive, joyous atmosphere at the time?