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1989: Simpson Returns

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The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the story of 20 years of post-communist life

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1989: Simpson Returns - Episode 1

John Simpson visits Leipzig and Berlin and talks to people who influenced events in 1989, as well as those whose lives changed forever.

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1989: Simpson Returns - Episode 2

John Simpson returns to Prague to speak to those who lived through the Velvet Revolution and asks what they feel about what has happened in the two decades since.

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1989: Simpson Returns - Episode 3

John Simpson returns to Bucharest 20 years after the bloody overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu's regime to assess what has happened since.

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