Stories From The Eastern West
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Stories From The Eastern West
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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 07 September 2021 : Stanisław Lem was a science-fiction writer whose works, abilities and quirky sense of humor convinced Phillip K. Dick that he was too...
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 : Urszula’s love for unruly musical experiments got her kicked out from music school when she was a young girl. A few years later, like many...
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...
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...
Stories From The Eastern West
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PASSENGER
Several years after the war, a strange encounter in the heart of Paris made Zofia Posmysz, a former Auschwitz prisoner, start wondering what...
EXILE
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...
REVOLUTION
Nicolaus Copernicus, born in 1473, was the orphaned son of a copper merchant in Toruń. Thanks to his bishop uncle, he obtained a first...
DAISIES
Vera Chytilová was the most important woman director of the Czechoslovak New Wave – although she remains relatively unknown outside of...
VISIONARY
Stanisław Lem was a science-fiction writer whose works, abilities and quirky sense of humor convinced Phillip K. Dick that he was too...
Announcing Season IV
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...
The Fusionist: Zbigniew Namysłowski
Like most Polish jazz musicians, Zbigniew Namysłowski learned the basics of jazz listening to Willis Conover’s “Jazz Hour”....
The Virtuoso: Adam Makowicz
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...
The New Yorker: Michał Urbaniak
“Polish jazz group - 100$ a night” Displayed on the posters in Michał Urbaniak’s band’s van while playing across Europe in...
The Queen: Urszula Dudziak
Urszula’s love for unruly musical experiments got her kicked out from music school when she was a young girl. A few years later, like many...
The Pioneeer: Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski
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...
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...
