Germany - Rebellion On The Rhine

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Germans head to the ballot box on February 23rd to decide the new national government. In Ludwigshafen, a Rhineland city that is emblematic of the sudden economic shocks battering the nation's industrial heartlands, ordinary Germans are questioning their loyalty to mainstream parties. Jeremy Cliffe meets local leaders and voters to see whether the populists who have been surging in the east can expect similar results here on the back of profound economic discontent.

Producer: Jeanny Gering
Presenter: Jeremy Cliffe
Executive Producer: Robert Nicholson

A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4

Jeremy Cliffe examines how economic decline is shaping the German election.

Jeremy Cliffe examines how economic decline is shaping the German election.

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Germans head to the ballot box on February 23rd to decide the new national government. In Ludwigshafen, a Rhineland city that is emblematic of the sudden economic shocks battering the nation's industrial heartlands, ordinary Germans are questioning their loyalty to mainstream parties. Jeremy Cliffe meets local leaders and voters to see whether the populists who have been surging in the east can expect similar results here on the back of profound economic discontent.

Producer: Jeanny Gering

Presenter: Jeremy Cliffe

Executive Producer: Robert Nicholson

A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4

Jeremy Cliffe examines how economic decline is shaping the German election.

[LISTEN NOW]