Neil MacGregor is Director of the British Museum. He is currently presenting Radio 4’s A History of the World in 100 Objects.
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, two major exhibitions in London take stock of German identity, history and memory, each in its own way providing a powerful reminder of the...
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