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POLcast
by Małgorzata P. Bonikowska and Tomek Kniat
POLcast is an English language podcast created for everybody interested in Poland. Each episode brings you interesting interviews, historical facts, trivia and more.
Episodes
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Episode 103
The Ornate and the Minimalist: Stories from Warsaw’s Cultural Core Step into the very heart of Warsaw, where two strikingly different buildings—one steeped in ornate socialist grandeur, the other a beacon of minimalist modernity—stand side by side: the Palace of Culture and the Museum of Modern...
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Episode 102
Listen to some stories from my visit to Warsaw: • 10th birthday of POLIN - an award winning museum in Warsaw which tells the story of the Jewish community in Poland. • An artist's art in Yiddish. • A Trinidadian in Poland. • A multiethnic oasis in Warsaw. • A Warsaw unique church. • Enjoying live...
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Episode 101
Today I will take you on a trip to two continents and to two places almost 10,000 km apart. • The first one is in Poland. It’s the city of Sopot, on the Baltic Sea coast. You will meet Canadian Polish photographer and film personality Ela Kinowska • My second POLcast guest is a black...
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Jubilee Episode 100
What a long way it has been since the idea to create POLcast was born 9 years ago! It started in 2015 and Episode #1 was released on March 15, 2016. This anniversary calls for memories and summaries. In its 8 years POLcast has released 100 episodes. I have interviewed well over 200 hundred people...
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Episode 99
May 2024 - the very first Polish Heritage Month in Canada. I’m talking to Irek Kuśmierczyk, liberal MP of Polish descent, representing a dynamic city of Windsor since 2019. How did it happen? Katy Carr’s song “Polonia” ends the episode.
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Episode 98
In this episode you will meet two celebrities - one human and one animal: Tomek Borkowy, a renowned Polish actor, who has lived in Scotland since the early 1980s, and Wojtek the Bear, a four-legged WW2 hero, who had no idea he wasn’t human because he was adopted as a cub and raised by the Polish...
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Episode 97
This is a conversation I had during my visit to Kraków with Michael Rubenfeld, a Canadian Jewish theatre artist: writer, director, actor, and producer, who moved to Poland 8 years ago. There aren’t many Jewish Canadians who settle in Poland for good. Michael talks about how this happened and why,...
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Episode 96
This is the last episode before Christmas and in the year 2023. Both stories in this episode come from Canada - from the city of Edmonton in Alberta: • Albertans United for the Children of Gaza - conversation with Thomas Lukaszuk • Music in Edmonton - conversation with Joanna Ciapka-Sangster.…
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EPISODE 95
In this episode “Canada in Poland” you will hear three interviews: • With Canada’s ambassador to Poland Catherine Godin, • With the Head of the Canadian Studies programme at the University of Warsaw Dr. Ewa Luczak, • With three students of the programme. Music by Polky, a Canadian folk band.
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Episode 94
In this episode, you will hear three stories: 1. Moses McCormick, a super polyglot who knew 50 languages and loved Polish; 2. Maple Corner about Canadian pop culture, a Polish language blog produced by Joanna Boguslawska in Poland. 3. A secret place in Poland which has just gone through the third...
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Episode 93
Meet Marajke Slomka from Brussels, a polyglot born in Poland. And a story of Gacek the cat, the tourist attraction in Szczecin.
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Episode 92 Christmas
In this Christmas episode, the last one in 2022, you will hear two interviews: • UCL Leaders - a great annual conference initiated by Polish students • A WWII puzzle solved - new thriller “Who Has Buried The Dead” and • Christmas music. WESOŁYCH ŚWIĄT!
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Episode 91
In this episode you will hear about: Poland’s and Canada’s November 11th Canada Study Tour program for Polish hight school students and Alina Deja’s love for Canada EKRAN Toronto Polish Film Festival #13 A stolen Stradivarius and other unknown stories from POLcast Facebook
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Episode 90
“Fight With Art” is the largest online charity auction in the world to offer humanitarian aid for Ukraine and the Ukrainian People. POLcast is talking to Michael Rubenfeld, its organizer, a Canadian performance maker, cultural producer, playwright and actor, who now lives in Cracow, Poland.
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Episode 89
From 1940 Kazachstan to 2022 Canada Today I am speaking to two women whom I have interviewed before: • ALICJA EDWARDS (born in 1924) Alicja Edwards is a 98-year-old writer, painter, pianist and antique expert and dealer. She lives in Eureka, Montana. Her paintings showing the traumatic years in...
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POLcast Episode 88
Mississauga Polish Day 2022. I will take you on a trip to Mississauga, a city neighbouring Toronto, to experience a colourful, joyful Mississauga Polish Day 2022 - celebration of Poland, polishness and Ontario’s Polish community. May 2022 was the first Polish Heritage Month in Ontario.
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Episode 87
This is my second special POLcast Episode - a tribute to Ukraine, to our Ukrainian sisters and brothers who are fighting heroically to defend their country against Putin's army. This episode is about Canadian-Polish help for Ukraine. • Toronto artists for Ukraine This huge concert “With Ukraine”...
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Episode 86
This is a special POLcast Episode - a tribute to Ukraine, to our Ukrainian sisters and brothers who are fighting heroically to defend their country against Putin's army. We stand with Ukraine and will do all we can to help and support you. This episode shows many faces of this support - in…
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Episode 85 - Christmas and New Year
In this episode: • Interview with Ewa Stachniak, a Polish Canadian writer * Christmas music by Joanna Ciapka-Sangster and Magda Papierz, Ola Turkiewcz and Vocal Ensemble of MAVO Academy of Arts and Music MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Episode 84
In this episode I’d like you to meet my two guests: Anna Paluch from Ottawa, Canada, and Piotr Surmaczynski from London, UK. We talk about indigenous culture, art, and history, about identity, Polishness, emigration and more. Visit POLcast at www.mypolcast.com
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Episode 83
An interview with Canadian historian, author and educator Zig Misiak about the history and aftermath of Canadian residential schools as well as his 50 years of work with and for Canada's First Nations.
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Episode 82
In this episode you will hear my interview with Ilona Kowalik Urbaniak, a mathematician and musician, born in Poland, living in Canada and now working in Cracow, Poland.
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Episode 81
An interview with Sabina Baral, who wrote an extremely successful book in Polish "Zapiski z wygnania" (Notes from Exile). The book talks about her family's experience of being made to leave Poland in March 1968, as a result of the ruling communist party's anti-Semitic purge. Those forced to leave...
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Episode 80
In this episode you will hear three interviews with: • Ewa Henry- Dawson, head of the Canada Team of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, about this year’s 29th annual campaign in Canada, pandemic-style. • Irene Tomaszewski, a Canadian writer, editor and translator of Polish descent living…
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Episode 79
In this Episode, we present two interviews, with: • Prof. Bart Bonikowski, American sociologist from NYU, teacher and advisor of Amanda Gorman at Harvard; • Joanna Ciapka-Sangster, a Polish Canadian violinist from Edmonton, Canada.
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Christmas Episode 78
I hope that while listening to this POLcast episode you will forget about the pandemic and this weird Christmas 2020. This episode #78 celebrates the beauty of Christmas through music. You will learn a lot about Polish carols and other Christmas traditions. In this special Christmas episode I...
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EPISODE 77
POLcast Episode 77 features two experts talking about Poland, its current situation, its geopolitical position, the present, the past, and the future
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POLcast Episode 76
In Episode 76 we are talking about antisemitism in two Polish language newspapers published in Canada. You will hear three interviews with: • Michael Mostyn, the Chief Executive Officer of B'nai Brith Canada, • Matthew Samulewski, an activist in the Polish Canadian community, mostly its younger...
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Episode 75
In Episode 75 you will hear: Interviews: • Students connect in a coast-to-coast event Quo Vadis Conferences Canada and the Polish Students’ Association (PSA) at the University of Toronto have teamed up to co-host an online conference just for students! POLcast is happy to be the event’s media...
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Episode 74 - COVID-19 #3
The pandemic... Every day brings us new numbers - every single one of them represents someone whose life has been affected by this horrifying pandemic that has changed our world in ways we could not have imagined or predicted. Someone infected or deceased. Those numbers keep growing every day and...
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Episode 73 – POLcast on COVID-19 (#2)
In Episode 73 - you will hear: Interviews: • The risk is obvious, but it doesn’t matter The pandemic as experienced by someone who risks her life every day, a front line worker. • Polish Easter At the beginning of March, long before we realized the full scope of what was going on around us, I...
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POLcast - Episode 72 (POLcast on COVID-19)
Our world has changed completely. POLcast has now been transformed to COVID-19 themed podcast and will be released more frequently that once a month - every two (or three) weeks, depending on how much strength I will have to produce it. In Episode 72 you will hear one interview only: Facts and...
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POLcast Episode 71
In Episode 71 you will hear: Interviews: • “Memory is Our Homeland” – a tribute to those whose story was never told • Canada’s dark past resonates with Poles in Poland • Pączki –Just Be Cooking Maria Rozynska is talking about the International Pączki Day and the magic od pączki making. To attend...
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POLcast Episode 70
In Episode 70 you will hear: Interviews: • A no-barrier approach to Polishness It’s fantastic that children of emigrants, Poles who settled in other countries such as Canada, even though they were often born and educated here, are interetsed in their roots, cultural heritage and want to…
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POLcast Christmas Episode 69
This is POLcast Christmas Episode. WESOŁYCH ŚWIĄT i WSPANIAŁEGO NOWEGO ROKU! In Episode 69 you will hear: Interviews: • "Music has been my lifeline": when cancer hits Arthur Lewinowicz, a 27-year-old violin and viola player, composer and teacher, whose life mission is to help kids with various...
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Episode 68
In Episode 68 you will hear: Interviews: • How young Polish Canadians stirred up Polish youth around the world - 10 years of Quo Vadis On September 20-22, 2019 delegates from all over the world came to Toronto to celebrate 10 years of Quo Vadis, a unique youth movement, one and only in the world....
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POLcast Episode 67
In Episode 67 you will hear: Interviews: • Was it worth it? A story of an immigrant's journey Liliana Arkuszewski lives in Ottawa. Her book about her immigration journey written in Polish has now been translated to English and recently published. • A true hero who risked his life to save others…
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POLcast Episode 65
In Episode 65 you will hear: Interviews: • Murder, cover up and forced silence - the war was not over for Poles Wanda Kościa talks to Piotr Szkopiak, British writer/director and his most recent film “The Last Witness”, a thriller which talks about the Katyn 1940 monumental masacre, in itself a...
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POLcast Episode 64
In Episode 64 you will hear: Interviews: • Polish language, literature and culture lovers at a North American university Why is it that not only people with Polish roots but also people who have no Polish blood in them study Polish literature, culture and language in countries outside Poland such...
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POLcast episode 63
In this episode you will hear: Interviews: • From building capitalism in Poland to writing books and helping others Agnieszka Dydycz tells her story of the very beginning of capitalism in Poland and her role in creating capital markets at the national level, her interactions with the biggest...
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POLcast episode 62
In this episode you will hear: Interviews: • Polish art in Indian palaces Poland’s connections with many geographically distant countries are a fascinating topic. This story of a famous pre-war Polish painter whose art decorates many palaces in India is told by a Canadian POLcast listener born in...
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POLcast episode 61
In this episode you will hear: Interviews: • If you cannot buy it – make it yourself: a story of Kannuk vodka Imagine that you go to a store and want to buy something special as a gift – well, you cannot because it’s simply not available. 99.9 per cent of people would simply leave saying: “too…
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POLcast episode 60
This is our special Christmas Episode so we would like to wish you WESOŁYCH ŚWIĄT i SZCZĘŚLIWEGO NOWEGO ROKU! In this episode you will hear: Interviews: • Art helps people in a remote African village For six years Ted Dawson has travelled every fall to rural Tanzania, an area next door to...
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POLcast episode 59
We are releasing this episode on a very special day - today, on 11 November 2018, Poland and Poles around the world are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining its independence. After 123 years of partitions, on 11 November 1918, the dream of generations of Poles came true: the…
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POLcast episode 58
In this episode you will hear: Interviews: • A ticking piece of Poland with a charity twist Robin Devine makes beautiful watches which she donates as gifts to hundreds of veterans, at the same time providing significant support for many charities (over 22 years around half a million dollars have...
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POLcast episode 57
In this episode you will hear: Interviews: • Poles and Jews meet through their common music Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk, born in Poland, is a singer, accordion player and researcher of Eastern European musical folklore. Since the very beginning of her creative work, she has been focusing on Jewish...
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POLcast episode 56
In this episode you will hear: A childhood dream that came true Maple syrup, Leonard Cohen, hockey – these are Canadian icons. There is one more, very special – Anne of Green Gables, the red-haired orphan whose life in Avonlea in Prince Edward Island was described by author Lucy Maud Montgomery....
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POLcast episode 55
This is a special episode of POLcast, recorded during my visit to Poland in June, where Margaret received the prestigious journalistic Maciej Plazynski Award for her work on POLcast. In this episode you will hear: Interviews: • And the M. Plazynski award for POLcast was granted by…. Jarosław...
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POLcast episode 54
In this episode: • The eye - where the microscope and the paintbrush meet Eva Henry (Toronto) is an artist and Dorota Skowrońska Krawczyk(California) is a scientist who work together to create VISIONS. • Looking for love stories across Canada Monika Grzelak, a photographer from Toronto, drove...
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POLcast is an English language podcast created for everybody interested in Poland. Each episode brings you interesting interviews, historical facts, trivia and more.
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POLcast has 100 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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POLcast is created and hosted by Małgorzata P. Bonikowska and Tomek Kniat.
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