Radio: Redside Radio

The most powerful radio station in Berlin, 100-kilowatt Berlin-Tegel, broadcasts in German, has its studios in the British sector, its transmitter in the French sector, and its lines run through the American sector. But what comes out over the air is all decided upon by the Russians.

Last week, U.S. authorities were still trying to cut in on this prize air. Typical of Russia's way of running the show are the instructions it gave the writer of a kiddies' program. He was told to have "no romances between nobility and commoners, no mention of castles or peasant huts . . . no...

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