Journalist Horatio Morpurgo will reflect on the 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall at a special Bridport LSi talk.

Multiplying The Light - November 1989: What Europe East and West Can Still Learn - 30 Years On can be heard on Friday, November 22 at 8pm.

The talk is a 'Lectures on Everything' event.

Horatio has written on Europe for more than 20 years.

Starting from Prague as the Cold War ended, he will take us on a journey through Europe’s deep past, into its 20th century conflicts and so to the present.

Whether or not we leave, he argues, only some such journey can resolve the underlying turmoil.

A witness himself to the collapse of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia thirty years ago, Horatio Morpurgo will tell the longer story of Britain’s Czech connection and how much has depended upon it.

Few people are aware of the Czech philosopher who was invited to address England’s parliament in 1641. But his visit would have far-reaching consequences.

Morpurgo will show how the memory of this vital connection was kept alive even during Chamberlain’s betrayal of 1938. It turned up in songs of resistance to the Soviet invasion of 1968 – songs which were sung once again in 1989.

*Multiplying The Light - November 1989: What Europe East and West Can Still Learn - 30 Years On, Bridport LSi, Friday, November 22, 8pm (doors 7.30 pm).

Tickets cost £8 and are available from Café@LSi, Bridport Tourist Information Centre and Eventbrite. Walk-ins are welcome.