Keep Berlin Colourful

Keep Berlin Colourful

Billboards have gone up encouraging people to voluntarily leave Germany. The Interior Ministry - run by the CSU's Horst Seehofer - is offering to pay up to twelve months living expenses back where you came from. The multi-lingual ads have been attacked with paintballs and 'refugees welcome' tags. Dan's take: freedom of movement is good, especially if paid for by the German state, but only if it goes in both directions.
It's Christmas market season. Festive lights have gone up along Unter den Linden, paid for by Lidl. But the city's heritage protection department says they are too multi-coloured. Are only white lights allowed now in Berlin?
Berlin will get a new public holiday in 2019 - May 8, also International Women's Day. It means seven of ten public holidays will occur in the first half of the year.
Come to our next live recording on Sunday December 16. Check our website for location details.

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Seize that Pad Thai

Seize that Pad Thai

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 Jun 20195min

RS Live: Driving is Violence

RS Live: Driving is Violence

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 Mai 201953min

RS Live: Who Wins the EU Poster Contest?

RS Live: Who Wins the EU Poster Contest?

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 Apr 20191h 3min

RS Presents: Well, Actually

RS Presents: Well, Actually

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 Apr 201933min

RS Live: Clean Up Schönleinstraße

RS Live: Clean Up Schönleinstraße

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 Apr 201955min

BVG Hearts Graffiti

BVG Hearts Graffiti

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 Mar 20194min

RS Live: Data and Mythos of Berlin

RS Live: Data and Mythos of Berlin

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 Feb 20191h 2min

RS Live: Finally a Fireworks Ban?

RS Live: Finally a Fireworks Ban?

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 Jan 20191h 1min

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