In the week in which Angela Merkel put the frighteners on Ireland, The Curious Ear visits a place in Germany you may imagine didn't exist: a soup kitchen for hungry Germans, the Bahnhofsmission - the 'Railway Station Mission' in Berlin.
Photos: PR pictures from bahnhofsmission.de
Music: "Ode To Joy" (Beethoven), Berliner Philharmoniker
The Curious Ear is produced by Ronan Kelly curiousear@rte.ie
October 2012
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