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1989: Day by Day - 16th October 1989

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Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago. The financial markets recover after Friday's Wall Street crash, averting another Black Monday; rehearsals begin for the first televised coverage of parliament; 120,000 East Germans gather in Leipzig for the largest anti-government demonstration in the nation's history. A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.