Over To You - Kate Goldberg https://bbclatestnews.pages.dev/blogs/overtoyou/ Welcome to the Over to You blog - the place where you can ask BBC World Service editors and programme makers how and why we make the decisions that we do. We need your comments - so please join in. en Copyright 2011 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:00:26 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.33-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss What happened in 1989 - and why does it matter? How many people remember the momentous events of 1989? The revolutions across Eastern Europe, the sense of impending change, the excitement of "people power"?

Chances are, if you're in your 20s or younger, you'll have heard that Europe used to be divided by the Berlin Wall, but you didn't live through those years. You probably didn't directly experience the profound changes that swept not just across Europe, but were felt in Africa, Vietnam, Cuba, South America and China.

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Ukrainian head Maciek Bernatt-Reszczynski sent me this photo of his daughters with pieces of the Berlin Wall in Nov 89.

As part of a season of programmes looking back at 1989, the BBC World Service would like you to get involved in a series of cross-generational interviews - where people in their 20s find out how the world changed from those who were in the thick of change in 1989.

You may want to interview your parents, teachers, friends or relatives. Or if you lived through the events of 1989 - and your life was profoundly changed - we'd love to hear from you.

World Have Your Say will also be on the road again, live from Berlin in November, and as ever, would like to know what you think.

Click here to find out more.

Kate Goldberg is Editor, BBCWorldService.com

]]> Kate Goldberg Kate Goldberg https://bbclatestnews.pages.dev/blogs/overtoyou/2009/08/what_happened_in_1989_and_why.html https://bbclatestnews.pages.dev/blogs/overtoyou/2009/08/what_happened_in_1989_and_why.html Your views Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:00:26 +0000 Welcome to our blog Welcome to the BBC World Service blog, Over To You, the place for you to engage us in a dialogue about our programmes and websites.

This blog is jointly run by the Over To You programme, and the BBC World Service website team. We encourage you to send us comments, which we'll moderate, publish - and do our best to respond to.

We'll be posting here about the issues and themes you're discussing on the Over to You programme, multimedia projects and seasons, and new developments on the site.

Please use this blog to tell us about what you'd like to see discussed both here and on the programme. We'll do our best to go behind the scenes and find the right the person to answer your questions. And we may get back to you to arrange an on air interview.

Kate Goldberg is Editor, BBCWorldService.com

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