Jonah: Levin should be remembered, if for nothing else, for his remark

after BBC-TV, circa 1980, showed a particularly fatuous documentary about

the division of Germany, arguing that there was really not much to choose

between West and East. Levin (from memory): “For 20 years I have been

reading reports of brave Germans risking, and quite often losing, their

lives to get over the Berlin wall. I have noticed a funny thing: THEY WERE

ALL HEADED IN THE SAME DIRECTION…”