Friedrichsfelder Friedensfunken
Rebellion, grassroots democracy and a cat-and-mouse game with the Stasi: a neighbourhood story from East Berlin in the 1980s. An old church among prefab towers, a pastor with a guitar and a synthesizer, and the young people who paved the way for a peaceful revolution.
The podcast can also be heard through an old telephone at the Bodo Uhse Library in Friedrichsfelde: an installation by WIR.DE Aktive Nachbarn, nine excerpts, one per key.
Project page at WIR.DE, in German
Into the Future with Mushrooms
What could the fungal kingdom teach us, and is there still room for humans in the future? Eight mushrooms speak in voices made from their own electrical signals, on a website you can mix yourself. The project grew into Fungal Broadcast, a VR forest of 3D-scanned mushrooms, and Fungal Entanglement, an exhibition with artists from five countries.
fuga 24
Fuga, from the Latin fugere, to flee: a form of music for many voices. The year is 2022. We resist, leave, come back, fear for the people we love, read the news, cry, argue, help. We can't see the future, but we try to hear it. An audio tapestry made with musicians, sound artists, journalists and researchers.
Sensitive content War, displacement and grief. Voices recorded in 2022.
(In)visible
Ten people who are blind or visually impaired describe their everyday life and the way they perceive the world. Gold award of the Apostol media prize for social projects.
Haze
In the 1990s a group of independent dream researchers noticed that people around the world were dreaming the same places. Journalist Nastya Larionova goes inside the community of dream hackers: lucid dreaming, government pressure, disappearances and real science.
Side Effects
Winter 2022, Uzbekistan. For dozens of children a seasonal cold ends in intensive care and kidney failure, and while parents fight for their kids, the system does nothing. Journalist Kirill Buketov follows the trail of uncertified medicines from Uzbekistan to a small African country, and into the global pharmaceutical market.
Sensitive content Contains accounts of children's deaths.
What Happened to the Atomic Dream
In the 1950s the atom comes home from the war: isotopes on shop shelves, reactors promised for every home. The first season of the Pole podcast follows that dream to a former Soviet nuclear colony in eastern Mongolia, to the people who had to leave when the dream and the Union collapsed. By Alexandra Rybkina, Ekaterina Ivanova and Yulia Zimina.
