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Radio Spaetkauf BerlinRS Live: Cars Can't VoteBerlin is weeks away from its state election and a referendum on housing. We analyse the campaign posters with Konrad Werner, columnist for Exberliner, and host of the weekly German news show Megan's Megacan: https://anchor.fm/megans-megacan The AFD has moved from anti-migrant to anti-Green issues, declaring "Your car would vote for us". The CDU are trying to convince Berliners they'd do a better job than the R2G coalition. The SPD is sticking with mayoral candidate Franziska Giffey, despite more plagiarism problems. She's also effectively ruled out a new coalition with Die Linke and possibly t...
2021-08-231h 13
The Low Season29. PipToday's guide is not a guide at all! At least not any more. We talk to our "chronically lazy" friend about the lack of suitable synonyms for 'weird', the benefits of living with someone who is not an arsehole and why she'd quite happily slide into poverty before going through the rigmarole of bureaucracy.
Conversation from April 10th 2020
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2020-05-2021 minThe Low Season14. YsanneSince moving to the city seven years ago, Berlin’s resilience has long been a source of inspiration for today’s guide. We discuss history as therapy and why her husband is locked in the bedroom.
Conversation from April 5th 2020.
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Cheeky episode of the Otter & Walrus.
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2020-04-2923 min
Public Law and LegislationEpisode 10. Witches BitchesHappy International Women’s Day!
To celebrate we're talking...Witches! How has the figure of the witch been perpetuated and represented throughout history? Who were the people most persecuted at the height of the western witchcraft trials of the 16th and 17th Centuries? Can a line be drawn from the centralisation of wealth and power, away from supposed witches and ‘female’ knowledge to the neoliberal patriarchal nightmare we live in today? Well…yeah. Obvs.
Show Notes
Silvia Federici, 'Caliban and the Witch' (2004)
Barbara Ehrenreich and Deidre English, 'Witches, Midwives and Nurses, A history of Women Healers’ (2015)
Unobscured Podcast, Aaron Mehnke (2018) https://hi...
2019-03-0941 minPublic Law and LegislationEpisode 9. Brexit...yeah its still this big thingWell, we have a lot of things we want to record talking about...but Brexit is so heavy on our minds we thought we would try to exorcise the demon once more! Recorded after Theresa May's historic defeat in Parliament earlier in January, I was a little worried the story would move along before we got the episode edited and out, but fortunately (and unfortunately), Brexit never seems to change, we seem constantly to be teetering over the abyss...Happy Days!
Production: Alex Griffiths
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2019-02-0538 minPublic Law and LegislationEpisode 8- A woman's workTraditionally gendered women's work is what keep the machinery of society moving, usually quietly and very often going unrecognised. We talk about the importance of 'women's work' and how its appreciation and sharing across the gender divide benefits all of us.
2018-11-1633 minPublic Law and LegislationEpisode 7- Metoo2 Where are we now?Its been almost a year since the New York Times broke the story of Harvey Weinstein's serial sexual abuse. Its been nine months since our first podcast where we focused on the Metoo movement. As we see an increase in divide and partisanship in the US in the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh, has anything changed?
2018-09-2834 minPublic Law and LegislationEpisode 6- The Quagmire of Shit...that is BrexitWith all of the confusion, misdirection, vitriol, fear and sheer cack-handedness of the British Government, we, two British women and a British/German baby leave the stats and arguments and have a cathartic RANT on the anxiety Brexit has inflicted and crisis of identity that has followed for so many of us. Carry on Remoaning!!!
2018-06-2341 minPublic Law and LegislationSpecial Episode: Repeal the 8thIzzy and Pip got together about a week or so before the referendum in Ireland on the 25th May 2018 to discuss the injustice and indignity Irish women have suffered at the hands of the 8th Amendment. Special thanks to Anna, Sinead and Ken.
2018-05-2335 minPublic Law and LegislationEpisode 4 - Birth: The Human vs. The Flat PackThis episode we finally did it, we FINALLY did it...well Izzy did it after some many hours of labour. But it all paid off and the world has a new beautiful boy!!! Listen to her gripping birth story which has everything...Romance, suspense, drama, a VILLAINOUS member of the patriarchy...and multiple HEROES! Also Pip created an equally important kitchen!
2018-05-2150 minPublic Law and LegislationEpisode 3- What to expect just before you're expectingThis episode Izzy talks about what she has learned in the run up to her due date which is ANY DAY NOW!!!!!! And Pip dives into the story of Hedy Lamarr which combines two of her favourite topics: Hollywood history and fighting the Nazis!!!
2018-03-2850 minPublic Law and LegislationEpisode 2 - Housing is a feminist issueEpisode 2 - Housing is a feminist issue by Sistrionics
2018-02-2835 minPublic Law and LegislationSistrionics - Episode 1 #MeTooSistrionics – a Podcast about hard hitting issues with occasional reference to Donatella Versace, pregnancy and motherhood, the correct way to urinate in a public toilet whilst wearing a jump suit and of course the eventual defeat of the Patriarchy!
Your hosts are the wonderful Pip Roper from Merseyside, England currently living and working in Germany’s most capital of all cities, Berlin and her determined companion, the ever growing Izzy Choksey currently creating a human in her womb to be located on most days in her Berlin flat attempting to reach her toes whilst raging about politics.
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2018-02-0330 min