CRUSADERS, BLIMPS AND WHOLE LOTTA RUBBISH: HOW BERLIN'S LEGENDARY AIRPORT, FLUGHAFEN TEMPELHOF, WAS BUILT
Send us Fan Mail 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 (cor...
1 Jan 202521min
BERLIN AND THE CHRISTMAS TREE CONUNDRUM
Send us Fan Mail 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 li...
24 Des 202422min
ALL ABOUT WURST: THE STORY OF BERLIN'S PEA SAUSAGE
Send us Fan Mail 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...
18 Des 202411min
EPISODE 8 DEATH AND RAILWAYS: THE CEMETERY AT POTSDAMER BAHNHOF
Send us Fan Mail Last week we talked about the long-vanished cemetery railway line which connected Berlin-Wannsee with Germany's second largest burial site, Berlin's Südwestfriedhof Stahnsdorf. This ...
4 Jun 202212min
EPISODE 7 COFFINS ON WHEELS: THE CORPSE TRAIN OF BERLIN
Send us Fan Mail What do large cities do when they run out of space to bury their dead? They go beyond their limits. Traditionally all large European cities like Paris, Vienna or London eventually est...
28 Mai 202210min
EP 6 SLEEPING IN BERLIN: LIVING IN A BOX
Send us Fan Mail Many old Berlin flats in the typical 19th century apartment buildings are equipped with a curious feature: a small storage space under the ceiling, usually installed in the bathroom, ...
21 Mai 202215min
Ep 5 SOUND IN BERLIN. WHEN HITCHOCK COMES TO TOWN
Send us Fan Mail The 1920s in Berlin were an incredible time, full both of misery and wonder. It was the time which brought both the worst and the best in people who lived there. And sometimes it help...
9 Mai 20227min
Ep. 4 LANDING IN BERLIN
Send us Fan Mail We all know how annoying air traffic can be these days for those who experience it from the ground - not only is it a time-bomb just waiting to make our environment go belly-up but i...
7 Mai 20228min
