Weekly update: Radio 4 adapts Anna Funder's Stasiland

By Tom Carson

Check out the Goethe Institut’s playlist of 1990s songs inspired by the Mauerfall.

First broadcast in 2003, Radio 4’s radio adaption of Anna Funder’s acclaimed book, Stasiland, can be heard here.

William Cook has detailed his top 10 Christmas markets to visit in Germany this winter.

Good news for German students as Ofqual, the exams regulator,  announced that French and German GCSEs will be marked less severely amid concerns pupils are being put off languages due to the difficulty of exams.