This edition of the American Academy’s “Berlin Journal” show on NPR Berlin (airdate January 7 & 9, 2017) features interviews with fiction writer Tom Franklin, historian Rebecca Boehling, geographer Michael Watts, medievalist Alex Novikoff, and the Academy’s director of programs, Thomas Rommel, and Jan Techau, director of the Richard C. Holbrooke Forum. Hosts: R. Jay Magill and Ashley Bamford.