Episodes

Saturday Nov 19, 2016
POLcast episode 33
Saturday Nov 19, 2016
Saturday Nov 19, 2016
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.

Saturday Nov 12, 2016
POLcast episode 32
Saturday Nov 12, 2016
Saturday Nov 12, 2016
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.

Saturday Nov 05, 2016
POLcast episode 31
Saturday Nov 05, 2016
Saturday Nov 05, 2016
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.

Saturday Oct 29, 2016
POLcast episode 30
Saturday Oct 29, 2016
Saturday Oct 29, 2016
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.

Saturday Oct 22, 2016
POLcast episode 29
Saturday Oct 22, 2016
Saturday Oct 22, 2016
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.

Saturday Oct 15, 2016
POLcast episode 28
Saturday Oct 15, 2016
Saturday Oct 15, 2016
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

Monday Oct 10, 2016
POLcast episode 36
Monday Oct 10, 2016
Monday Oct 10, 2016
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

Saturday Oct 08, 2016
POLcast episode 27
Saturday Oct 08, 2016
Saturday Oct 08, 2016
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

Saturday Oct 01, 2016
POLcast episode 26
Saturday Oct 01, 2016
Saturday Oct 01, 2016
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.

Saturday Sep 24, 2016
POLcast episode 25
Saturday Sep 24, 2016
Saturday Sep 24, 2016
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.