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.... more

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How many episodes does POLcast have?

The podcast currently has 104 episodes available.

POLcast episodes:

November 19, 2016POLcast episode 33
In 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 tablet.

If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you will hear something that will help you to enrich these relations.
...more
34min
November 12, 2016POLcast episode 32
In 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.
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 to enrich these relations.
...more
30min
November 05, 2016POLcast episode 31
In 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.
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 to enrich these relations.
...more
31min
October 29, 2016POLcast episode 30
In 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 have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother – you will hear something that will help you to enrich these relations.
...more
33min
October 22, 2016POLcast episode 29
In 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.
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 to enrich these relations.
...more
34min
October 15, 2016POLcast episode 28
In 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 something that will help you to enrich these relations.
...more
33min
October 10, 2016POLcast episode 36
In 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, 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.
...more
32min
October 08, 2016POLcast episode 27
In 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 something that will help you to enrich these relations.
...more
31min
October 01, 2016POLcast episode 26
In 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 to enrich these relations.
...more
33min
September 24, 2016POLcast episode 25
In 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 will help you to enrich these relations.
...more
35min

FAQs about POLcast:

How many episodes does POLcast have?

The podcast currently has 104 episodes available.