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Thursday 27 January 2022 : Several years after the war, a strange encounter in the heart of Paris made Zofia Posmysz, a former Auschwitz prisoner, start wondering what...
Friday 17 December 2021 : Get to know Piotr Szkopiak, a London-based film and TV director who’s spent a good portion of his life pondering the nature of his...
Wednesday 10 November 2021 : Nicolaus Copernicus, born in 1473, was the orphaned son of a copper merchant in Toruń. Thanks to his bishop uncle, he obtained a first...
Thursday 07 October 2021 : Vera Chytilová was the most important woman director of the Czechoslovak New Wave – although she remains relatively unknown outside of...
Tuesday 24 August 2021 : This year we have more great stories for you! There's going to be a bit of sci-fi, a pinch of socialist realism, a good portion of...
Thursday 29 July 2021 : Like most Polish jazz musicians, Zbigniew Namysłowski learned the basics of jazz listening to Willis Conover’s “Jazz Hour”....
Friday 16 July 2021 : Adam Makowicz grew up in a house where a piano was the centre of the home. His mother had long planned for him to become a classical...
Thursday 01 July 2021 : “Polish jazz group - 100$ a night” Displayed on the posters in Michał Urbaniak’s band’s van while playing across Europe in...
Thursday 17 June 2021 : It may be hard to believe, but when Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski started playing music, jazz was censored in Poland. As a result of Stalin’s...
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...
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......
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...
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