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S2E10 TUNING IN - ENIGMA'S BIG BERLIN SISTER (00:17:58)
Send us a text Love it or hate it - Berlin can and will keep surprising you. Sometimes those surprises will be less welcome but sometimes they will make your day, your week or even your next 20 years....
REPEATED: DEATH AND RAILWAYS - THE CEMETERY AT POSTDAMER BAHNHOF (00:13:46)
Send us a text An old Yididish proverb says: "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans". The author heard booming laughter from above and thus planning to launch the last episode in th...
OF SPUDS AND GEMS: BERLIN'S PALACE MONBIJOU (00:21:31)
Send us a text In this episode of "Berlin Companion Podcast" we are travelling back in time to the second half of the 17th century to witness some royal shenanigans (including several weddings, an ext...
SMOG IN THE CITY: "DICKE LUFT" IN WEST BERLIN (00:17:37)
Send us a text Those of us living in the city centre, close to industry sites or a very busy street junction know the smell only too well: fuel, burnt rubber, melting plastic and unspecified chemical ...
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: BLACKOUT YEARS IN BERLIN (00:16:08)
Send us a text Are you afraid of the dark? The answer is is most probably yes. Few people are comfortable not seeing where they are going, or what might be lurking ahead. An extreme form of that fea...
BERLIN WALL UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE: HOW TO SELL AN ANTI-FASCIST PROTECTION BARRIER (00:33:11)
Send us a text In December 1989 US department stores expanded their pre-Christmas offer by a very attractive item for late or for undecided Christmas-present buyers. It was small yet profound - fille...
REPEATED S1E3: HANNA FLIES TO HELL - THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH IN BERLIN (00:19:47)
Send us a text Hello Berlin and Beyond! This is a repetition of a Series 1 episode - my family and I are about to say goodbye to a very dear person, and my mind is understandably elsewhere. It turne...
THE WHEELS KEEP ON TURNING: BERLIN AND "MANOLI LINKSRUM" (00:11:53)
Send us a text The sky over Berlin is never dark. Even at night. The main cause is the city's heavy light pollution. Berlin's streetlights, its signs, its permanently illuminated buildings - all they ...
CRUSADERS, BLIMPS AND WHOLE LOTTA RUBBISH: HOW BERLIN'S LEGENDARY AIRPORT, FLUGHAFEN TEMPELHOF, WAS BUILT (00:21:34)
Send us a text During 2022 excavations in the area of Berlin's Molkenmarkt - a historic plaza and the city's oldest market place - archaeologists discovered Berlin's oldest street, a Bohlendamm (cordu...
BERLIN AND THE CHRISTMAS TREE CONUNDRUM (00:22:18)
Send us a text Eight out of ten people in our (scientifically absolutely unreliable) survey with only one question "What is it that you could never imagine Christmas without?", named it. You can live...
ALL ABOUT WURST: THE STORY OF BERLIN'S PEA SAUSAGE (00:11:26)
Send us a text The first episode in the new series is both a starter and the main dish. It's a story of soup. Of instant soup that from the late 1860s on fed Prussian, German and even foreign armies, ...
EPISODE 8 DEATH AND RAILWAYS: THE CEMETERY AT POTSDAMER BAHNHOF (00:12:02)
Send us a text Last week we talked about the long-vanished cemetery railway line which connected Berlin-Wannsee with Germany's second largest burial site, Berlin's Südwestfriedhof Stahnsdorf. This ep...
EPISODE 7 COFFINS ON WHEELS: THE CORPSE TRAIN OF BERLIN (00:10:23)
Send us a text What do large cities do when they run out of space to bury their dead? They go beyond their limits. Traditionally all large European cities like Paris, Vienna or London eventually estab...
EP 6 SLEEPING IN BERLIN: LIVING IN A BOX (00:15:59)
Send us a text Many old Berlin flats in the typical 19th century apartment buildings are equipped with a curious feature: a small storage space under the ceiling, usually installed in the bathroom, th...
Ep 5 SOUND IN BERLIN. WHEN HITCHOCK COMES TO TOWN (00:07:33)
Send us a text The 1920s in Berlin were an incredible time, full both of misery and wonder. It was the time which brought both the worst and the best in people who lived there. And sometimes it helped...
Ep. 4 LANDING IN BERLIN (00:08:07)
Send us a text We all know how annoying air traffic can be these days for those who experience it from the ground - not only is it a time-bomb just waiting to make our environment go belly-up but it ...
EP.2 TREFFPUNKT 8 UHR: BERLIN CLOCKS (00:12:35)
Send us a text In the 1920s elegant Berliners fell in love with a scent called "Treffpunkt 8 Uhr" (Rendezvous at 8PM). Made by a legendary local manufacture Schwarzlose - which still exists today - it...
EP. 1 BERLIN O'CLOCK (00:08:35)
Send us a text When in April 1893 German Empire introduced new time measuring system based the Greenwich meridian, Berlin lost something big for good. It lost its own time. Here is the story behind it...
Berlin Companion Podcast Pilot (00:03:00)
Send us a text For anyone interested in history, Berlin is your playground. From old Slavic and Germanic tribes through Crusaders, alchemists and feuding houses to Prussian expansion, Emperors and wor...
