Iain MacGregor Interviewed by Michael Crick

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Editor and publisher of non-fiction Iain MacGregor talks about his book on the history of Checkpoint Charlie and the Berlin Wall that divided East and West during the Cold War.

MacGregor includes interviews with men who built and dismantled the Berlin Wall, children who crossed it, relatives and friends of those who died trying to cross it, policemen and soldiers who guarded the checkpoints, spies who oversaw operations, politicians who shaped it and journalists who told the stories.

‘This remarkable book about the Berlin Wall offers a riveting panorama of everyday life as it was actually lived at ground zero of the cold war’ Jeremy Bowen

MacGregor has been an editor and publisher of non-fiction for 25 years, working with authors such as Melvyn Bragg, John Nichol, Simon Schama, and Max Hastings. Here he talks to television journalist Michael Crick, who is best known for his investigative reporting for Panorama and Newsnight.