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19 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
195 episodes
since Dec. 16, 2019
episodic

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A Fond Farewell

This is the last Debrief from The First News at the Polish Press Agency. As you may or may not know, TFN is set to close its doors to the public, with this podcast along with it. Before I say goodbye, some statistics! Along with this episode, we have a grand total of 197 episodes of The Debrief o…

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In this episode of The Debrief we take a look at the like and times of Jerzy Sosnkowski, brother of the illustrious general Kazimierz Sosnkowski. A new book about Sosnokowski shows how we was an accomplised architect, illustrator and artist, as well as a fiction writer and magazine editor. Yet des…
Thanks to the power of the internet meme, Polish has risen to the ranks of near legendary status for being obscenely difficult. But one Polish language teacher has set her sights on Instagram to make learning Polish that little bit easier. In this episode, John Beauchamp speaks to Julia Pilarska-C…
We talk to cultural anthropologist and activist Ewa Chomicka from the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews. How do museums stay relevant? How can participatory methods actually enrich a museum’s narrative? One such project is a voluntary choir which was set up by the Polin Museum of the Hist…

Praga Mon Amour

In this episode, we hear from the head of the Praga Museum about what it means to be from this slightly rough around the edges, yet vibrant and often overlooked district of Warsaw. John Beauchamp speaks to Katarzyna Kuzko-Zwierz about the Praga branch of the Museum of Warsaw about its new exhibiti…
In this episode of The Debrief, we take a look at digital accessibility in the social sphere, especially culture and the arts. Host John Beauchamp speaks to Maja Drabczyk, the head of the Centrum Cyfrowe, a digital foundation which advocates for better accessibility, public engagement and openness…
In the latest Debrief, we’re down in Kraków meeting a very special artist who has made a name for herself in creating the most colourful and inventive ecological protests across Poland and Europe.  Join John Beauchamp as he visits Cecylia Malik at home in Kraków, a hive of activity where art and…
The golden era of Polish comic books started in the 1960s. Today its popularity has reached momentum with a whole array of titles being translated to foreign languages. The Comic Book Museum, the first such institution in Poland, is now taking shape in Kraków. It started operations in 2021 in a te…
For this Debrief Extra we’re on a journey through photographic history at an exhibition entitled “Lithuania. Two Centuries of Photography”. From old, yellowish photos from the 19th century to the brand new digital projects. From the times when Lithuania belonged to the Russian Tsarist empire to th…
A new report published by Warsaw’s Kozminski University shows that women in Polish higher education institutions are having a tough time breaking through to higher academic posts. Host John Beauchamp speaks to the author of the report, Adjunct Professor Dr Anna Górska from Department of the Human …
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