BS Reporter Melanie Sevcenko hails from Canada by way of Texas. For our first one-hour episode of BERLIN STORIES, Melanie interviewed local American and British expats on their dreams of escape and the realities of survival. While Melanie’s daily beat is Berlin, where she has been living since 2009, in the past year alone she has written and produced stories from Serbia to Holland to the United States, for news outlets as disparate as the CBC, AlJazeera and Miller-McCune. Click to read and listen.