Helena Merriman, 40, has open up about her diagnosis with degenerative hearing condition, otosclerosis. The BBC star had noticed she was getting hard of hearing after the birth of her son Sam, but ...

Combining intimate storytelling, immersive sound design, candid interviews, science and a large dose of compassion, Room 5 is a gripping portrait of extraordinary people at a moment when everything ...

The story of Joachim Rudolph’s daring plan to dig a tunnel under the Berlin Wall will have you on the edge of your seat, writes Vin Arthey Berlin, September 1962. One year after the German Democratic ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. TUNNEL 29: THE TRUE STORY OF AN EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE BENEATH THE BERLIN WALL by Helena Merriman, PublicAffairs, ...

Based on a BBC podcast, Merriman’s intriguing yet uneven debut history focuses on Joachim Rudolph, a young East German who, in 1962, helped 29 people escape to West Germany through a tunnel he dug ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sister, the UK production house run by Jane Featherstone that has recent credits including HBO and Sky’s Emmy-winning Chernobyl and BBC/Netflix series Giri/Haji, has won rights to Helena ...

The presenter of Room 5 and Tunnel 29 on her own life-changing medical diagnosis. Show more Three years ago, BBC radio broadcaster Helena Merriman received a shock diagnosis related to hearing loss ...

Germans have a saying that you can find the best stories lying around on the streets. Helena Merriman’s lively new book, Tunnel 29, proves that sometimes the best yarns lie beneath. Take Berlin’s ...

BBC'S HELENA MERRIMAN recalled first finding out about her otosclerosis diagnosis and how she has used her own experience with the condition to explore how it affects other people. Helena Merriman, 40 ...

Room 5 is a collection of stories about lives changed and the process of recovery. I hope listeners find them as inspiring as I do. — Helena Merriman There’s always a room where it happens - where a ...