Helena Merriman presented and produced Tunnel 29, BBC Radio 4’s podcast about a miraculous escape under the Berlin Wall. She is also the cocreator of British Podcast Award–winning series The Inquiry, and previously worked as a reporter for the BBC in the Middle East. She lives in London, UK.
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He escaped from one of the world’s most brutal regimes.Then, he decided to tunnel back in. In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rudolph dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin were ... SEE MORE