Synopsis

As the construction of the Berlin Wall loomed, this special edition of Panorama brings Richard Dimbleby to the city, reporting live from the very spot where a single nail in the cobblestones marked the boundary between Eastern communism and Western democracy. Elsewhere, Ludovic Kennedy visits a refugee camp in West Berlin, speaking with those who have fled from the East. In New York and Bristol, citizens offer their perspectives on the escalating Cold War, while Foreign Secretary Lord Home addre