Stories From The Eastern West
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Stories From The Eastern West
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Friday 30 April 2021 : This week we've a special preview for you: Rebel Spirits! It's a podcast about five Polish jazz musicians who came of age in the 1950s and...
Wednesday 31 March 2021 : In 1967, Marian Marzyński was a popular TV show host and filmmaker in Poland. But then a seemingly faraway military clash sparked an...
Monday 01 March 2021 : In 1938, Hitler's forces marched into Czechoslovakia, a country that had only gained its independence two decades earlier. A puppeteer named...
Wednesday 27 January 2021 : Back in 2019, we got the chance to interview Anastasija Gulej. She was 95 at the time, living a happy life in one of Kyiv's suburbs. If you...
Thursday 31 December 2020 : ‘Romania today is possibly the only European country where you can bump into a witch at the supermarket.’ The history of witches...
Monday 30 November 2020 : In the summer of 1976, the late Polish film director Andrzej Żuławski, responsible for infamous cult classics such as The Devil (1972) and...
Saturday 31 October 2020 : After the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east in 1939, many thousands of Polish families were deported to Siberian forced labour...
Wednesday 30 September 2020 : As much as The People’s Republic of Poland may seem a distant country hidden behind the Iron Curtain, it was an open and welcoming one......
Monday 31 August 2020 : In August 1980, after the firing of popular shipyard worker, Anna Walentynowicz, a strike broke out at the Vladimir Lenin Shipyard in...
Thursday 16 July 2020 : Chernobyl had cast a shadow over our childhoods. It was reportedly the cause of all the chronic diseases we’d struggled with. In the...
Wednesday 08 July 2020 : This year, we've travelled to the far reaches of the globe for you: we went deep down into the Chernobyl Exclusion zone, visited New...
Friday 01 November 2019 : How a teen's letter to a stranger in the Soviet Union led to a long-distance friendship that has lasted decades. Like many teens growing...
Friday 25 October 2019 : How a giant communal song festival helped Estonians regain independence from the USSR. Part of our mini-series The Final Curtain. In...
Friday 18 October 2019 : How a Romanian mining town that lost its mine fought to turn its remains into a cultural hub. In our second and final episode on...
Friday 11 October 2019 : How a Romanian miner made political caricatures at a time when making fun of the country's leadership could mean a visit from the secret...
Friday 04 October 2019 : How a single mother in Kyiv experienced the end of the USSR and survived the harsh economic realities of life in post-communist Ukraine in...
Friday 27 September 2019 : How East Berlin's leading political cabaret tried to get their message through despite strict state censorship... and what happened when the...
Friday 20 September 2019 : Meet the headstrong musician who's been viciously rebelling against both of the systems he lived under... and created some truly...
Friday 13 September 2019 : How a banned singer-songwriter became an unwilling musical hero through his home-copied cassettes. Jacek Kleyff was an increasingly...
Friday 06 September 2019 : How an East German cameraman filmed the first major demonstrations in the GDR from the top of a church steeple in Leipzig. A month later,...
Thursday 29 August 2019 : How Polish opposition activists began transmitting their own pirate radio and 'hacked' communist-run state TV. Part of our mini-series The...
Friday 23 August 2019 : How a photographer from London gave the rest of the world a glimpse of everyday life behind the Iron Curtain. Part of our mini-series The...
Friday 23 August 2019 : How a well-known opposition leader evaded capture by the communist authorities for almost five years. Part of our mini-series The Final...
Friday 09 August 2019 : THE FINAL CURTAIN: a new series of personal tales from the Eastern Bloc’s demise. Launching August 23rd in the Stories From The Eastern...
Thursday 28 February 2019 : Finland + technology = Nokia, doesn’t it? Yes, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Finland is responsible for many technological...
Stories From The Eastern West
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Announcing: Rebel Spirits
This week we've a special preview for you: Rebel Spirits! It's a podcast about five Polish jazz musicians who came of age in the 1950s and...
STATELESS
In 1967, Marian Marzyński was a popular TV show host and filmmaker in Poland. But then a seemingly faraway military clash sparked an...
PUPPETS
In 1938, Hitler's forces marched into Czechoslovakia, a country that had only gained its independence two decades earlier. A puppeteer named...
WITNESS
Back in 2019, we got the chance to interview Anastasija Gulej. She was 95 at the time, living a happy life in one of Kyiv's suburbs. If you...
WITCHES
‘Romania today is possibly the only European country where you can bump into a witch at the supermarket.’ The history of witches...
LUNAR
In the summer of 1976, the late Polish film director Andrzej Żuławski, responsible for infamous cult classics such as The Devil (1972) and...
ORPHANS
After the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east in 1939, many thousands of Polish families were deported to Siberian forced labour...
NAM
As much as The People’s Republic of Poland may seem a distant country hidden behind the Iron Curtain, it was an open and welcoming one......
SHIPYARD
In August 1980, after the firing of popular shipyard worker, Anna Walentynowicz, a strike broke out at the Vladimir Lenin Shipyard in...
PURE
Chernobyl had cast a shadow over our childhoods. It was reportedly the cause of all the chronic diseases we’d struggled with. In the...
Announcing Season III
This year, we've travelled to the far reaches of the globe for you: we went deep down into the Chernobyl Exclusion zone, visited New...
EWA & LENA
How a teen's letter to a stranger in the Soviet Union led to a long-distance friendship that has lasted decades. Like many teens growing...
KAIE
How a giant communal song festival helped Estonians regain independence from the USSR. Part of our mini-series The Final Curtain. In...
PETRILA
How a Romanian mining town that lost its mine fought to turn its remains into a cultural hub. In our second and final episode on...
ION
How a Romanian miner made political caricatures at a time when making fun of the country's leadership could mean a visit from the secret...
IRYNA
How a single mother in Kyiv experienced the end of the USSR and survived the harsh economic realities of life in post-communist Ukraine in...
EDGAR & MICHAEL
How East Berlin's leading political cabaret tried to get their message through despite strict state censorship... and what happened when the...
TYMON
Explicit content
Meet the headstrong musician who's been viciously rebelling against both of the systems he lived under... and created some truly...
JACEK
How a banned singer-songwriter became an unwilling musical hero through his home-copied cassettes. Jacek Kleyff was an increasingly...
SIEGBERT
How an East German cameraman filmed the first major demonstrations in the GDR from the top of a church steeple in Leipzig. A month later,...
WOJCIECH
How Polish opposition activists began transmitting their own pirate radio and 'hacked' communist-run state TV. Part of our mini-series The...
CHRIS
How a photographer from London gave the rest of the world a glimpse of everyday life behind the Iron Curtain. Part of our mini-series The...
ZBIGNIEW
How a well-known opposition leader evaded capture by the communist authorities for almost five years. Part of our mini-series The Final...
Announcing: The Final Curtain
THE FINAL CURTAIN: a new series of personal tales from the Eastern Bloc’s demise. Launching August 23rd in the Stories From The Eastern...
CRACKED
Finland + technology = Nokia, doesn’t it? Yes, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Finland is responsible for many technological...
