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POLcastEpisode 98In 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 soldiers, himself acting as one. What a story! All that with love for Scotland.
Also, Poland has won the top prize in the 2024 European Tree of the Year.
A lot of information and links at www.mypolcast.com
...2024-04-1841 minPOLcastEpisode 97This 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, how life in Poland differs from Canada, what it’s like to do theatre in Poland. He also talks about his presence on social media, which has become a valuable source of knowledge about Poland for him.
2024-03-0448 minPOLcastEpisode 96This 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.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
PEACE!
2023-12-2353 min
POLcastEPISODE 95In 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.
2023-06-2047 minPOLcastEpisode 94In 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 major transformation since WWII.
2023-05-0150 minPOLcastEpisode 93Meet Marajke Slomka from Brussels, a polyglot born in Poland.
And a story of Gacek the cat, the tourist attraction in Szczecin.
2023-04-0436 minPOLcastEpisode 92 ChristmasIn 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!
2022-12-101h 56POLcastEpisode 91In 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
2022-11-1244 min
Nasze Radio USALudzie radia... Małgorzata P. BonikowskaLudzie radia: Małgorzata P. Bonikowska - Spod klonowego liścia * www.NaszeRadioUSA.comSupport the show2022-11-0324 minPOLcastEpisode 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.
2022-09-2242 minPOLcastEpisode 89From 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 Kazachstan in the 1940’s are now telling this incredible story of survival as part of Alicja Edwards exhibit at the Muzeum Pamieci Sybiru (The Sybir Memorial Museum) in Bialystok, Poland.
• Louiza Szacon from KONEKT
A Polish Canadian professionals’ organization, whose launch we celebrated on POLcast i...2022-07-211h 06POLcastPOLcast Episode 88Mississauga 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.
2022-06-1647 minPOLcastEpisode 87This 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” was organized in Toronto by local artists to show their solidarity and love for Ukraine and to raise money for Ukraine. The idea came from two Polish folk singers from the renowned group Polky.
• "United for Ukraine" - gigantic aid campaign in Edmonton
"United for Ukraine" is the brain...2022-04-2651 minPOLcastEpisode 86This 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 Poland, Canada, and England.
2022-03-1452 minPOLcastEpisode 85 - Christmas and New YearIn 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!
2021-12-231h 01POLcastEpisode 84In 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
2021-10-2352 minPOLcastEpisode 83An 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.
2021-08-2352 minPOLcastEpisode 82In 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.
2021-06-1441 minPOLcastEpisode 81An 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 were made stateless and were subjected to humiliating exit procedures.
Sabina left Poland with her parents, parting with her Polish boyfriend. This was the end of her life in the country where her family had lived for generations. And a new beginning.
2021-04-121h 12POLcastEpisode 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 in Ottawa, for many years the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Review, an online English-language magazine on Polish culture, established in 2008. We talk about Bogumił W.Andrzejewski, a Polish linguist and his connection to Somalia.
• Pola Janowska and Mery (Marysia) Grupinska, two Polish high school students, actively involved in Global Awarene...2021-02-2739 minPOLcastEpisode 79In 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.
2021-01-231h 00POLcastChristmas Episode 78I 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 interview Joanna Ciapka-Sangster, a Polish Canadian violinist from Edmonton, Alberta.
Wesołych Świąt i Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
2020-12-2436 minPOLcastEPISODE 77POLcast Episode 77 features two experts talking about Poland, its current situation, its geopolitical position, the present, the past, and the future
2020-11-2545 minPOLcastPOLcast Episode 76In 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 generation,
• Thomas Lukaszuk, a Polish-born Canadian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, who served in the provincial cabinet and was the Deputy Premier of Alberta.
See: Legality, morality, and freedom(s) – antisemitism in Polish language newspapers
2020-08-171h 18POLcastEpisode 75In 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 patron.
• Grammy Award nominee’s passion for jazz
In February I conducted this carefree – pre-COVID-19 – interview with Kinga Heming, an amazing Polish Canadian jazz singer, who was born in Poland, moved to Ottawa when she was five and now resides in the small town of Kelowna in the Canadian provi...2020-06-1450 minPOLcastEpisode 74 - COVID-19 #3The 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 we all pray or wish for the day when we hear that they have begun to drop.
Today we will talk about mental health, a very important face of the COVID-19 crisis.
• Kids and the pandemic
I talk to Dr. Ewa Antczak, a chi...2020-05-0346 minPOLcastEpisode 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 recorded a conversation with Maria Różanska of Just Be Cooking about Polish Easter traditions.
2020-04-1143 minPOLcastPOLcast - 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 myths about COVID-19 and how we can all beat it
This is a conversation with Dr. Rafal Kustra, Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
2020-03-3152 min
POLcastPOLcast Episode 71In 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 the Just Be Cooking Pączki event and other evets, see HERE
2020-02-2358 min
POLcastPOLcast Episode 70In 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 incorporate their Polishness into their identity. There are a few Polish Canadian youth organizations, including the one and only Quo Vadis movement, which we have featured on POLcast. A Polish Canadian young professionals’ organization, whose launch we celebrated on POLcast last year - Konekt is a bit different from other such groups...2020-01-2656 min
POLcastPOLcast Christmas Episode 69This 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 disabilities and special needs learn to play the violin and enjoy music, has been fighting cancer since August.
• Living like any other person who can see
Marta Hanyżkiewicz, born in Poland, is a student of business and psychology at New York University and Baruch College in New York City. She i...2019-12-2254 min
POLcastEpisode 68In 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. POLcast talks to Ania Barycka, the conference spiritus movens, organizer and veteran.
• An Australian Quo Vadis organizer's experience with polishness
While at the 10th QV conference in Toronto, I met a really enthusiastic young Pole Szymon Motylek, who now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. His life is quite a stor...2019-11-1057 min
POLcastPOLcast Episode 67In 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
Mr. Franciszek Paslawski, who just passed away in September 2019, was the last Righteous Among Nations still living in Canada. This is his story and the story of those who owe him their lives.
• In love with Dawson City, Yukon
Matylda Lis, a ...2019-10-061h 09
POLcastEpisode 662019-09-0255 min
POLcastPOLcast Episode 65In 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 tragedy, but also about another tragic aspect of it - the coverup by the Allies, who didn’t want to reveal the Soviet guilt, ascribing it to the Germans. The film also shows the fate of Polish refugees after WWII who lived for years in displaced persons’ camps in Britain, un...2019-06-301h 01
POLcastPOLcast Episode 64In 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 as Canada?
• The land of mosquitos and Poles in Ontario (Part 2)
Kaszuby, an area in northern Ontario, about 200 kilometres west of Ottawa, named after the part of northern Poland from which the first settlers came, is the site of the first Polish settlement in Canada. The Kashubian language and childhoo...2019-05-261h 04
POLcastPOLcast episode 63In 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 institutional global investors, and then... her life as a writer and her charity work.
• Polished ice - curling in Poland
Adela Walczak lives in Poland, a country without any curling traditions and without any curling facilities. Until now, because Adela decided to build a world class curling club in her...2019-04-2858 min
POLcastPOLcast episode 62In 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 India. He had just come back to Canada after visiting his home country and was fascinated with artist Stefan Norblin’s contribution to India’s culture.
• Basia’s love line
Basia lives in a small town in Ontario. On a line between two trees in front of her house she hangs dona...2019-03-0945 min
POLcastPOLcast episode 61In 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 bad. I wish they produced it” and go buy something else. But not Adam Szymkow…
• The world’s largest orchestra “plays” for sick kids
This year for the 27th time, Poland’s largest fundraising campaign – the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, which collects money for me...2019-02-101h 07
POLcastPOLcast episode 60This 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 Kilimanjaro, to help local people build and modernize infrastructure. In November, for the first time, he took with him Ewa Henry, a Polish Canadian artist, who opened an art program there, empowering local youth and help them get some income.
• A Polish pr...2018-12-1654 min
POLcastPOLcast episode 59We 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 Polish state was reborn and Poland reappeared on the maps of Europe.
In this episode you will hear:
The story of 100 years of Poland's independence
Special gift to Poland on its 100th anniversary of independence
Interviews:
• Each child deserves to learn music
Arthur Lewi...2018-11-111h 55
POLcastPOLcast episode 58In 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 been donated to numerous charitable causes). Now on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Poland's independence, she created an exquisite Polish Eagle Watch to celebrate this special occasion.
• It starts with a bang - Scotland and Poland
Wanda Koscia talks to Neal Ascherson, a renowned S...2018-10-141h 14
POLcastPOLcast episode 57In 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 music of Ashkenazi roots. She converted into Judaism and now lives and works in Jerusalem. She performed at Toronto’s Lula Lounge at the 2018 Ashkenaz Festival with her three Polish musicians.
• The Things of Warsaw
When I was in Poland in June, I attended the official opening o...2018-09-161h 01
POLcastPOLcast episode 56In 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. Bernadeta Milewski is a Pole living in the US, whose life has been influenced by Anne of Green Gables in many ways.
The money is on the road – a study of immorality
After the successul premiere of hs feature debut “22 Chaser”, we talk to Polish Canadian filmmaker – Rafal Sokolowski...2018-08-121h 03
POLcastPOLcast episode 55This 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 Włodarczyk is the president of the Press Club Polska. This organization is the founder of the annual Maciej Płażyński award together with Jakub Plazynski, a son of the late Maciej Plazynski. This year’s award in the category of “Journalist of a Polish diaspo...2018-07-081h 14
POLcastPOLcast episode 54In 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 across Canada to find and photograph couples in love.
• The teacher taking his students far away from the classroom
There are special teachers - Marcin Zarod is one of them.
Also in this episode:
Coś z Polski
Great Poles - Kazimi...2018-06-101h 05
POLcastPOLcast episode 53In this episode you will hear:
Interviews:
• MozART Group - string virtuosos with appetite for fun
There are four of them, most accomplished virtuoso string players (two violins, a viola and a cello), graduates of prestigious music Academies in Warsaw and Łódź. They have been playing together since 1995, when they began to create their own style - classical music with humour - their own unique musical cabaret. Now the award winning MozART Group is admired all over the world, their DVDs fly off the shelves (and the internet) and each of their YouTube videos is watched by hundreds of thousand...2018-05-071h 12
POLcastPOLcast episode 52In this episode you will hear:
Interviews:
• A mission to give voices to those who are not heard
Art gives a voice, empowers, returns dignity and changes lives. This is what Anna Rak and the acting school she graduated from in New York believe in. Anna is a Polish actress there who works with inmates - her work has also changed her life. She also aims to give a voice to art communities in New York who have so much to offer and are not heard enough.
• A Polish-Canadian athlete wins gold for Canada in Pyeongchang
Alex...2018-03-1145 min
POLcastPOLcast episode 51In this episode you will hear:
Interviews:
• Polish folk music - the multicultural way
Polky Village Band was created by ethnomusiologist, musician and singer from Poland Ewelina Ferenc and consists of Canadian musicians of various ethnic backgrounds. They charm Canadian audiences with Polish fold music and dances.
• Polish-Canadian-Japanese artist's help for Laos, India, and Uganda
Sylvia Beauchain lives in Japan, with which she feels very close spiritual connection, and has devoted her life to her two great passions – art and helping those in need, which she has successfully connected to change other people’s lives.
Also...2018-02-181h 34
POLcastPOLcast episode 50In this episode you will hear:
Interviews:
• An orchestra which saves lives
Since 1993 the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, a non-governmental charity in Poland, has been working tirelessly with one goal in mind "Health Protection and Saving Children's Lives through Providing Medical Equipment to Public Hospitals". It was created by Jurek Owsiak and had millions of followers all over the world. It has recently played in Canada.
• North America's only mayor with Polish roots
Bonnie (Bozena) Crombie, former member of federal parliament and Mississauga councillor, became mayor of Mississauga in 2014 after her pre...2018-01-211h 01
POLcastPOLcast episode 49In this episode you will hear:
Our POLcast's third award - granted to us by CEMA (Canadian Ethnic Media Association).
Interviews:
• Great Poles - a project by young history buffs
A group of ambitious high school students from Poland (and not only) worked for months to create a website called greatpoles.pl which has just been launched. It’s a beautifully prepared English language website featuring great Poles from the past and those who make Poland known around the world today. Stanislaw Borawski, a history buff, is one of the key people behind the Great Poles...2017-12-101h 16
POLcastPOLcast episode 48In this episode you will hear:
Interviews:
• A legend that needed to exist
Dariusz Rosiak, a renowned Polish press and radio journalist and author, has just published his 6th book “Biało-czerwony. Tajemnica Sat Okha” (White and red. The secret of Sat Okh).
Sat Okh, Long Feather (c. 1920 – July 3, 2003), was supposedly born to a Polish woman and a native Canadian Shawnee chief, then returned to Poland, where he fought in WW2, worked in the navy and then started his career of informing Poles and other Europeans about the culture and tradition of native Canadians.
• Time for the yo...2017-11-051h 02
POLcastPOLcast episode 47In this episode you will hear:
Interviews:
• Poppies on Canadian graves in Poland
Nancy Campbell - a Canadian teacher (an great fan of Poland) who initiated an international collaboration between an elementary school in Poland and an organization out of Edmonton called No Stone Left Alone. She recently visited Krakow to attend an event - the result of this unique partnership between Poland and Canada
• A child's journey from the Arctic to the Equator - Part 2
Irene Tomaszewski - an Ottawa-based writer and editor, talks about the unbelievable story of thousands of Polish children (herself included...2017-10-0758 min
POLcastPOLcast episode 46In this episode you will hear:
Interviews:
• An eye-opening experience of the world of the blind
Monika Dybiel - a blind guide from Warsaw's "Invisible Exhibition" talks about this special place and the lives of people who are blind and visually impaired
• "Creative" is the word
Filip Terlecki - a Toronto-based filmmaker - director and screenplay writer, founder of a multi-platform production company, talks about his most recent film and working in advertising.
Also in this episode:
• How to piss off a Pole
• "Smacznego! Eating Polish" - yummy summer salads
...2017-09-031h 11
POLcastPOLcast episode 45In this episode you will hear:
Interviews:
• A hero from zero (part 2)
Marek Probosz - a Polish success story in Hollywood, where he came for a short visit in 1987 as a big Easter European star - film, television and stage actor in his native Poland with more than 50 starring roles and numerous awards, known across Eastern Europe as the “De Niro of Poland”(part 2 of the interview),
• Polish-Jewish roots turned life mission
Peter Jassem - the head of the Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation, a dynamic organization in Toronto. An accomplished architect in his day job, he has devoted ov...2017-07-221h 14
POLcastPOLcast episode 44In this episode you will hear:
Interviews:
• Marek Probosz - a Polish success story in Hollywood, where he came for a short visit in 1987 as a big Easter European star - film, television and stage actor in his native Poland with more than 50 starring roles and numerous awards, known across Eastern Europe as the “De Niro of Poland”(part 1 of the interview),
• John Godson - the first black man in Polish Parliament. He moved from Nigeria to Poland in 1993 and in 2001 received Polish citizenship. A minister, missionary, academic, politician, actor, teacher, businessman, he was first a city counci...2017-06-241h 14
POLcastPOLcast episode 43In this episode you will hear:
How a young German sees the complicated relationship between Germany and Poland – the past and the present (part 2).
What Canada’s Ambassador to Poland sees as his role in Poland and how he promotes Canada there.
How an extreme sport can lead to much more than an adrenaline rush and records.
Interviews:
• Johannes Schneider - a German, born and educated in Germany, who also lived for a number of years in Austria, now a Canadian, talks about his native country's troubled past - WWII and its relationship with Poland (part 2 of the in...2017-05-2759 min
POLcastPOLcast episode 42In this episode you will hear:
• How a young German sees the complicated relationship between Germany and Poland - the past and the present (part 1).
• How it is possible to master the "impossibly difficult" Polish language when you are British,
• How to travel the world with a young child and have extra fun.
Interviews:
• Johannes Schneider - a German, born and educated in Germany, who also lived for a number of years in Austria, now a Canadian, talks about his native country's troubled past - WWII and its relationship with Poland (part 1 of the inte...2017-04-291h 10
POLcastPOLcast episode 41This is our special episode, made entirely in Poland.
Both Malgorzata and Tomek happened to be in Poland and our separate visits had a few-day overlap. Actually, one of the segments was recorded in Vienna, where Malgorzata travelled to receive a prestigious award - The Golden Owl, often called the Polish Oscars. Hers was in the category of Media, which did include our POLcast as well.
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the...2017-04-0243 min
POLcastPOLcast episode 40In this episode you will hear:
Interviews:
• Ela Kinowska and Piotr Sobierajski – Polish Canadians who are travelling across Canada (now in the North) with their RED COUCH to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canada and record of Canadians from coast to coast to coast
• Minister Valerie Adams-Patterson – minister of communities responsible for housing of Guyana and her delegation (including a Polish Canadian and a Guyanese Canadian) on their way to Poland
• Jakub Nagrodzki - a Cambridge University student of medicine and president of the Cambridge University Polish Society, main organizer of the 10th Congress o...2017-03-0455 min
POLcastPOLcast episode 39In this episode you will hear:
How a Canadian Jew returned to his native Poland after 75 years.
Why a Polish runner is running 1600 km from Canadian Yukon to Alaska
How a non-Pole got fascinated with Polish WWII history and what this fascination resulted in
Was Christopher Columbus Polish?
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish custo...2017-02-0552 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 38In this episode:
How a number of coincidences and one man’s determination have changed the lives of two people living thousands of miles apart and unaware of each other,
About the winter capital of Poland and the centre of the highlanders’ culture,
How a Polish Canadian has been involved in the arts community of Melbourne, Australia.
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly...2017-01-0832 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 37
In this special Christmas episode you will hear about Polish traditions and we will play you some beautiful Polish carols.
We are making a two week break so that if you have missed any of POLcast episodes, you will be able to catch up during that time. We are coming back after New Year - first Sunday of 2017.
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POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio...2016-12-1737 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 36In this episode:
About a Polish Canadian pianist’s mission to revive the music of Holocaust-silenced or exiled Polish Jewish composers
Why the Polish language sounds like one long tongue twister
Why a young Polish Canadian cinematographer chose an unusual career path - From an international cinematography festival to making the right choices
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartpho...2016-12-1031 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 35In this episode:
How a 3 year old boy’s amazement at a grand piano in a shop window led to international musical career
Why Poles are getting a car ready for Tom Hanks
How a community spirit can change lives of refugee families and bring people together.
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish...2016-12-0336 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 34In this episode:
What is important in studying history - Part two of the interview with an American historian doing research on Poland,
How the Polish language expresses closeness and what is the function of Brudershaft,
How an animal psychologist can help in a court and in protecting animal welfare.
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you...2016-11-2633 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 33In this episode:
What an animal psychologist can teach us about our love for animals
How a Polish virtuoso pianist and politician is celebrated in the US
How a father’s teaching assignment at Polish universities in the 1980s shaped the life of an American historian specializing in Poland and Eastern Europe.
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tabl...2016-11-1933 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 32In this episode:
Part 2 of our interview with a Canadian Polish photographer/author who had unprecedented access to women’s prisons in Afghanistan
More about famous Poles, but this time not ones that we can be proud of.
About a unique underground organization helping the Jews in German occupied Poland during WW2.
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POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tabl...2016-11-1229 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 31In this episode: About a Canadian from a Chinese family who got fascinated with Polish history and who feels really at home in... Warsaw
About November the 1st being a very special day for Poles
How a Polish passport helped a Canadian photographer get into places in Afghanistan that are inaccessible to others and what came out of this.
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POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered direc...2016-11-0530 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 30In this episode: About Poles as treasure hunters as shown in a BBC film
A Field-marshal of the Ottoman Army and the Governor of Aleppo - what does he have to do with Poland?
What happens when your hunch that you are not who everybody thought you were in finally confirmed.
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you ha...2016-10-2932 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 29In this episode:
What it’s like to live with a Pole - a foreigner’s take on Poles - part one of our new series
The Polish alphabet - what are all these weird looking letters
That you can and should become a gatherer - a Polish Canadian’s interest in and book about mushrooms and edible plants.
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POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to...2016-10-2234 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 28In this episode: About a three-language play based on the poetry of Polish Nobel Prize leaureate Wislawa Szymborska premiering in Toronto.
About the only Polish military cemetery in North America.
About a musician’s fascination with Polish Renaissance and Baroque music
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you will hear...2016-10-1532 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 36In this episode:
About a Polish Canadian pianist’s mission to revive the music of Holocaust-silenced or exiled Polish Jewish composers;
Why the Polish language sounds like one long tongue twister;
Why a young Polish Canadian cinematographer chose an unusual career path - From an international cinematography festival to making the right choices
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartph...2016-10-1031 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 27In this episode: About a three-language play based on the poetry of Polish Nobel Prize leaureate Wislawa Szymborska premiering in Toronto.
About the only Polish military cemetery in North America.
About a musician’s fascination with Polish Renaissance and Baroque music
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you will hear...2016-10-0830 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 26In this episode:
Why it was Poles and not other nations that built Hollywood,
How we need to be careful and beware of linguistic traps
About making a documentary about one of the most well-known Poles.
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you will hear something that will help you...2016-10-0132 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 25In this episode: How Hollywood was created by Poles - research and two books by a renowned American filmmaker/author
That Hell does exist - in Poland
How a British singer sang for Soviet gulag survivors in Poland.
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you will hear something that wil...2016-09-2434 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 24In this episode: How the survivors as well as their children and grandchildren preserve the memory of the “Siberian experience”, the part of Polish history still unknown to the world
How a radio show can grow in popularity over 45 years
About the world premiere of the latest film by Andrzej Wajda Powidoki (Afterimage) at the Toronto International Film Festiwal
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POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly...2016-09-1744 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 23In this episode: About a Canadian writer who authored two books about the role of Poles in the New World.
What it’s like to grow up in a family haunted by trauma - a book by a Polish American writer
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POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you will hear s...2016-09-1034 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 22In this episode: About Ludwig, the robot, constructed by a young Polish scientist and his team in Toronto to help people with Alzheimer’s disease
About Poles and drinking - from stereotypes to reality
What it’s like to be a son of the renowned British historian of Poland prof. Norman Davies.
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you hav...2016-09-0335 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 21In this episode: How Polish patriotic songs can be made interesting to the 21st century audiences -
Are young Poles any different from their Canadian peers?
How Poland features in the largest North American festival of Jewish culture - Toronto’s Ashkenaz Festival.
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmoth...2016-08-2738 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 20In this episode: How a young Canadian musician, a Juno award winner, sees Poland after living and working there
How the inhabitants of Cracow deal with dragons
How a Canadian actor/playwright wrote a play about his Jewish roots after making a visit to Poland which changed his way of thinking about his identity and all he had ever learned about Poland
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio...2016-08-2030 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 19In this episode:
How an American from Ohio teaches himself Polish
How Poles watch foreign films on TV
How an actor from the Polish town of Opole became a Canadian theatre director and succeeded in building bridges between Poland and Canada
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you will hea...2016-08-1330 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 18In this episode:
About Lilac Girls and what this mysterious phrase has to do with Poland.
How Canadian teenagers of Polish descent are passionate about Poland
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POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you will hear something that will help you to enrich these relations..2016-08-0636 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 17In this episode: About a program which allows talented Polish teenagers to study in best British high schools and then continue their education in top universities in the world.
How a young Canadian filmmaker’s interest in Warsaw made him move there and resulted in a number of documentaries about its past
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you h...2016-07-3033 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 16In this episode:
How a Canadian astronomer of Polish descent has been recording UFO sightings for 27 years.
About something as Polish as storks and Polish vodka
How Poles have embraced Oxford style debates.
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POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you will hear something that will help you to enric...2016-07-2331 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 15In this episode:
How Polish avant-garde theatre is studied and admired all over the world
How Polish soups are perfect for hot summer days - part one of our biweekly series: Smacznego, Eating Polish
How tragedies from the past can bring people from different cultures together
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer...2016-07-1634 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 14In this episode:
About building bridges with the past and across cultures
What you need to know when you are invited to a meal in a Polish home
About being a Pole Down Under - the Aussie perspective
About Arabs from Poland
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmot...2016-07-0931 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 13In this episode:
How a passion for Polish food has turned into a successful business for a Polish-American couple,
How an immigrant from Poland created a cosmetics empire in the US,
How a 92-year-old, young at heart Polich American created an amazing art oasis in Montana.
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish custom...2016-07-0229 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 12In this episode:
Where in Poland you can have a beer in a cellar as old as mediewal crusades
How history is not just about the past
How we celebrated the POLcast launch at the Polish Consulate with great guests and fantastic musicians
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmot...2016-06-2534 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 11In this episode:
What city you should definitely visit in Poland and what a unique place you will find there
How a Canadian Polish vocalist has become a star in Poland, the country she left as a child
More about Polish food and language - how a kind of restaurant that all Poles know and like would make no sense in English
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POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio...2016-06-1832 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 10In this episode:
About a very special connection between a book and a unique album by a world class Polish jazz pianist;
How a Pole played a huge role on the road to the smart watches of today;
How a family of circus artists brought up an actor who has acted in five languages in theatres in many countries, including The Royal Shakespeare Company
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourf...2016-06-1133 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 9In this episode:
What is jazz to one of the greatest jazz musicians, born in Poland, living in the US and Canada;
How being a woman at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries did not stop a Polish scientist from winning two Nobel prizes;
How can young people make a difference, according to a young Polish Canadian living and working in Brussels;
Why a Canadian without Polish roots plans to retire in Poland and is studying the Polish language
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast...2016-06-0435 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 8In this episode:
How the Polka dance is not what it seems to be
Why some Canadians invest so much time and effort to learn Polish?
How a photographer sees her work in our image obsessed world
How a famous Polish immigrant helped to change Canada
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, collea...2016-05-2830 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 7In this episode:
How an American professor remembers his three years in Poland which included martial law
What Polish invention is commonly used in electronics, and
How a Polish Canadian jazz vocalist decided to live in Poland
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POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you will hear something that will hel...2016-05-2136 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 6In this episode:
Why the Polish language is perfect for talking to your lover
How being a genius pianist helped in inventing car parts
Why two American girls think it's cool to be bilingual
How a seminar for curious Polish Americana and Canadians led to a unique online publication
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish cu...2016-05-1430 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 5In this episode:
Poles and their mushrooms
One man’s dream to reverse the Tower of Babel
How the twenty-first century engineering and Renaissance meet in Toronto
What Poles and aboriginal peoples have in common
Kobzy – Polish back-pipes
For full length interviews, visuals and a lot of additional information please visit our website at myPOLcast.com
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you will hear something t...2016-05-0734 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 4
In this episode:
Why a young, successful British singer sings about Polish history and everybody loves it.
How is it to grow up in a Polish-Persian family.
How a Polish pharmacist invented a process which produces gasoline.
Why the Polish language is special when it comes to talking to your lover.
About Poland export specialties: vodka, beer and... bison.
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you wi...2016-05-0132 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 3
In this episode:
Polish idioms
Canadian jazz musican and his incredible story that joins art, family mystery and Poland (part 2)
Cabbage – the Polish way
An extraordinary four-legged soldier
Can you guess this sound from Poland?
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you will hear something that will help you to enrich these relations..
2016-05-0129 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 2
In this episode:
Husaria – about our logo
Canadian jazz musican and his incredible story that joins art, family mystery and Poland
Why the Polish language is so difficult
How best to see the whole of Canada: by cycling from the Pacific to the Atlantic
Can you guess this sound from Poland?
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you will hear something that will help you to enri...2016-05-0100 minPOLcastPOLcast episode 1
In this episode:
“All that Jazz” – about our tagline and POLcast
“No mean Yes” in Polish
“Music and History” – how young Canadians experience LIVING HISTORY in Poland.
“Dogs’ blood” – can swear words be funny?
POLcast is the FIRST EVER English language podcast about Poland and Poles around the world. It's a colourful weekly audio magazine delivered directly to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you will hear something that will help you to enrich these relations..
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