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Old 2nd Jan 2022, 14:51
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Lance Shippey
 
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Less Hair.

Thanks for the attachment / Interesting.
Re. the Range Rovers : You may be interested in the story behind the DDR version of the Sandman (Sandmannchen) shown on DDR T.V. after Unification which was different to the Sandman shown on West German T.V. (ARD).

The Sandman was the original idea of Dr. Ilse Obrig and developed by Berliner rundfunk in the Soviet zone in the 1950's. She defected to the West. The Sandman was based on Ole Lukoje, a character of H.C. Anderson, who granted dreams to come true in the child had been good.. The programme was called Unser Sandmannchen (Our Sandman) in the East, and Das Sandmannchen in the West. In the East German version, the Sandman travelled to the USSR to see his brothers and sisters. He then travelled to Angola and drove around in a Western Land Rover. This was used to mitigate any jealousy against Honecker's fleet of them at his numerous hunting lodges.

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