The Power of Water - Clean Energy from Micro-hydro Systems

Coming up in this edition: Fashion from the Roaring Twenties is back, Amsterdam's canals and gardens, the Madonna graffiti in Leipzig, embroidered graphics by Evelin Kasikov, and in Clipmania: Quite a Stretch - Sport in Slow Motion.

Journalist and Social Democratic politician Egon Bahr is considered the architect of “Ostpolitik,” West Germany’s policies toward the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, starting in the 1960s. His formula of change through rapprochement created the basis for them. On Talking Germany, the 91-year-old talks about his efforts to make the Berlin Wall slightly more penetrable during the Cold War,

On this week's show: Chancellor Angela Merkel and her election pledges / Future of MEADS in doubt / Visit from the White House / The East German uprising of 1953