And my ambition was sealed.

Close encounter three

The picture there is Khrushchev.

Berlin 10th November 1989.

It consists of an imperial Chateau HautBrion 1989.

Country 2, that has fewer telephones, is China.

So, when you kill the boss, you can watch the end of the game. Uh...

It was October 17, 1989.

And it was so successful that they made it into a movie.

Limited edition, two blue stripes, 1989.

I want to ask your help in a new reframing.

It cannot be possible, that the stouter... ...workers and farmer's wifes... are punished by the fashion combinates... ...after the 40th year of the existence of our Republic!

And you have more choice driven societies.

We can go and use inflatable systems for almost everything.

In 1989, these isolated tears in the fabric of our universe began to increase in frequency.

1989, kid, champion swimmer, came from Brighton for a school sports tournament, drowned in the pool.

The emperor passed away in January of 1989. Therefore, the name of the era changed from Showa to Heisei.

Raid 2020 released in 1989 in the USA... and it's quite disturbing...

But it's taken a long time to get there.

Astronomers estimate that little asteroids like that come about every hundred years.

And then through the various years we invented various vehicles.

(Laughter) I went home.

Or as I like to call them, they are the midwives of capitalism.

It's a boattail. 264 caliber bullet manufactured by Winchester in 1989.

We adopted the fledgling internet working standard from the States, followed by the rest of Europe, and we established the principal link at CERN between Europe and the States in 1989, and the truly global internet took off!

Actually the country with more telephones is the Soviet Union, and the data referred to 1989.

So the way these measurements were done, there's been a set of satellites, and this is where you get to see.

The emperor passed away in January of 1989. Therefore, the name of the era changed from Showa to Heisei.

And amongst the chaos, amidst the euphoria, it took me a little while to understand that some of the people who had wielded power before 1989, in Eastern Europe, continued to do so after the revolutions there.

I then started writing about Eastern Europe, and eventually I became the BBC's chief correspondent for the region, which is what I was doing in 1989.

Here you can see how hundreds of thousands of people stood up and protested for change.

Like I said at the beginning, imagine that all those people on the streets of Berlin in autumn of 1989 had a mobile phone in their pocket.

Now, planning a complex social system is a very hard thing to do, and let me tell you a story.

And in Bulgaria, the mafia was soon joined with 14,000 people who were sacked from their jobs in the security services between 1989 and 1991.

And I find this very much disturbing when we're talking about what's going on right and wrong with democracy these days.

In August, 1993, I had my first opportunity to witness on a massive scale the impact on children of institutionalization and the absence of parenting.