City Lives: Berlin

A search for the essence of contemporary Berlin, a city trying to recapture its status as a Central European metropolis. Denis Staunton, foreign correspondent for the Irish Times, finds that although the Wall has fallen and virtually disappeared, Berlin cannot escape its past. We meet ice-skating champion, Katerina Witt, architect Daniel Liberskind, and East German spymaster Markus Wolf, descend to long-hidden bunkers, take the ‘whore tour’, and view the awesome new projects of Potsdamer Platz and the restored Reichstag.