An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain

Matthew Longo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University. His is the award-winning author of The Politics of Borders and has also written a reconstruction of an epic Cold War border breach, The Picnic. He lives in The Netherlands. 

Annabelle Quince has forged a varied career across the legal profession (as a researcher and lecturer), film and television (as a director, producer, scriptwriter and researcher) and in radio (as a producer and presenter). During her 10 years with Late Night Live, she produced a number of series with Phillip Adams, including the India program ‘A Billion Voices’. In 2000 she took a year’s leave to produce and direct the documentary Watching the Detective, a film about women private investigators.