Get Help Berlin: Part 1 - The Saddest City

Berlin now has two top level football teams after FC Union jumped up to the Bundesliga by winning a play-off match. FC Union started back in the DDR. Their die-hard fans actually helped rebuild the st...

17 Kesä 20195min

Are you recycling, or 'wish-cycling'? We talk to Thomas Klöckner, spokesman for BSR, Berlin's waste processing company. It turns out we're all doing a pretty good job. But bulky waste is a problem. Th...

28 Touko 201953min

Are you one of four million EU citizens living in Germany? Now's your chance to vote in the European Parliament elections. We decipher the street posters. Maisie explains why photos of chin-scratching...

29 Huhti 20191h 3min

RS presents a pilot of a podcast series created by Joel Dullroy and his colleagues at DW. Well, Actually questions common assumptions and reveals surprising perspectives through exceptional stories. U...

12 Huhti 201933min

Why does the BVG allow its U-Bahn stations to be used as heroin hotspots? Several stations seem to have been abandoned to drug dealers and addicts. Schönleinstraße is the centre of the problem. The BV...

1 Huhti 201955min

Berlin is a noisy city, and it's getting louder. Stats show police cars activated their lights and sirens 158,000 times last year - or more than 400 times a day. That's a 5% increase on the previous y...

22 Maalis 20194min

What do Berlin's criminal gangs have to do with the German hip-hop industry? One high profile rapper is living in fear of retribution from a Berlin mafia boss. Our guest Konrad Werner tells us about a...

26 Helmi 20191h 2min

Are you one of the 34% of Berliners who enjoy the fireworks free-for-all on New Years Eve? Or one of the 62% who are sick of it? Local Green party politician Georg Kössler says it's time Berlin regula...

8 Tammi 20191h 1min