Berlin Companion Podcast

Everything you never even knew you wanted to know about Berlin by the author Berlin history blog, theberlincompanion.com, Berlin Companion Audio Walks App and the Berlin Companion book series.

Podcasting since 2022 • 19 episodes

Berlin Companion Podcast

Latest Episodes

ALL ABOUT WURST: THE STORY OF BERLIN'S PEA SAUSAGE

The first episode in the new series is both a starter and the main dish. It's a story of soup. Of instant soup that from the late 1860s on fed Prussian, German and even foreign armies, filled stomachs both on and off the battlefields, and was t...

December 18, 2024 • Season 2 • Episode 1 • 11:26

BERLIN AND THE CHRISTMAS TREE CONUNDRUM

Eight out of ten people in our (scientifically absolutely unreliable) survey with only one question "What is it that you could never imagine Christmas without?", named it.You can live with less or different Christmas dishes, fewer prese...

December 24, 2024 • Season 2 • Episode 2 • 22:18

CRUSADERS, BLIMPS AND WHOLE LOTTA RUBBISH: HOW BERLIN'S LEGENDARY AIRPORT, FLUGHAFEN TEMPELHOF, WAS BUILT

During 2022 excavations in the area of Berlin's Molkenmarkt - a historic plaza and the city's oldest market place - archaeologists discovered Berlin's oldest street, a Bohlendamm (corduroy road or log road). Two years later they made a...

January 01, 2025 • Season 2 • Episode 3 • 21:34

THE WHEELS KEEP ON TURNING: BERLIN AND "MANOLI LINKSRUM"

The sky over Berlin is never dark. Even at night. The main cause is the city's heavy light pollution. Berlin's streetlights, its signs, its permanently illuminated buildings - all they contribute to the problem. So much so that for the past two...

January 08, 2025 • Season 2 • Episode 4 • 11:53

BERLIN WALL UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE: HOW TO SELL AN ANTI-FASCIST PROTECTION BARRIER

In December 1989 US department stores expanded their pre-Christmas offer by a very attractive item for late or for undecided Christmas-present buyers.It was small yet profound - filled with more deep meaning than it modest size or weigh...

January 22, 2025 • Season 2 • Episode 6 • 33:11

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