Podcasts by ARE WE EUROPE

Originals: We are what we eat - the dish that helps Salvadoran migrants integrate from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.608316

Food is a silver lining in El Salvador—a tiny country nestled in between Honduras and Guatemala on the Pacific coast of Central America. Throughout its violent past and today’s widespread gang-v...

Purple Keys, Part 3 from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.596876

Purple Keys is a podcast which uncovers solutions to tackle gender-based violence during the pandemic. In this episode journalists Monica Pelliccia and Elena Ledda look into how women in Spain use...

Readout: My Sister the Capoerista from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.582478

People who see Capoeira being performed for the first time often ask the same question: is it a dance or a martial art? The music, percussion, rituals, and the way that players move elegantly ar...

Behind the Scenes: Sarah Sax on Sports, Identity and Capoeira from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.571572

Kyrill Hartog, Are We Europe's editor in chief, interviews Sarah Sax about her piece in our latest magazine called the Sports Issue. Sarah goes behind the scenes of writing the flagship piece, d...

Readout: The Long Run from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.556406

For African athletes trying to build a career in Europe, being the fastest runner on the track isn’t good enough.

This is a readout story from our latest magazine, which explores what...

This Is What a Generation Sounds Like: Denisa from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.544537

We tend to talk about freedom of movement within the EU as an abstract concept. In reality, moving to a new place involves a million little moments of awkwardness, sweetness, and human vulnerabi...

Originals: The Boys in Berlin from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.521766

Thirty minutes south of Berlin is the small, riverside town of Grünau. It's the site where a team of 8 rowers shocked the world when they won one of the most improbable gold medals in the 1936 O...

Readout: Queer and Roma(nian) from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.517779

Today you're listening to a story about how queer Roma experiences are shaping LGBTQ+ activism in Romania, one of Europe's most religious societies. This story is a part of our magazine—The Queer ...

Readout: Taking the Black Pill from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.503945

A readout of a story by Alex King, from Are We Europe's disinformation magazine "Online Lies, Offline Lives".

Read by Mick ter Reehorst. Edited by Stefano Montali. 

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Millennial History - Children of the Decree (Part 1) from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.492133

Joanna and Catinca were born in Romania, during the final years of the dictatorship of Nicolai Ceausescu. Catinca always lived in Romania, Joanna was adopted into America when she was 4.

T...

Millennial History - Children of the Decree (Part 2) from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.488161

Catinca and Joanna talk us through the Romanian revolution -which was indeed televised- & the Wild West of the 90s. They reconstruct the way people adapted to massive changes in society and in t...

Millennial History - The Troubles (Part 2) from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.479351

Agnes, Michael & Chris make us feel what it means to live in a country, divided by identity politics in every aspect of daily life. In response, they show us how to move forward from a place of ...

Behind the Scenes: Matteo Dressler, Policy Analyst at Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.464424

Social scientist and policy advisor, Matteo Dessler provides some insights on what young people think about the war in Ukraine. In conversation with Are We Europe's Editor-in-chief, Anneleen Oph...

Behind the Scenes: Are We Europe Editors Anneleen Ophoff&Juli Simond discuss Issue #14 from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.459630

Are We Europe's Editor-in-chief, Anneleen Ophoff and Deputy editor, Juli Simond discuss the inception and creation of the latest magazine, Behind the Headlines of War. 

This was rec...

Behind the Scenes: Are We Europe Designers Eddie Stok&Ana Rodrigues from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.454104

Are We Europe's Creative Director, Eddie Stok and Designer, Ana Rodrigues, discuss the creation of the latest magazine, Behind the Headlines of War. 

This was recorded live at Jacki...

Behind the Scenes: Visual Storyteller Diana Takacsova from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.441421

Visual storyteller Diana Takacsova spoke to Are We Europe's Editorial Intern, Ioana Pleșea about Takacsova's photo series - "Between the Rows" - which tells the story of migrant workers in Portu...

Behind the Scenes: Climate Activist Cass Hebron from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.436358

Climate activist Cass Hebron spoke to Are We Europe's Editor-in-Chief Anneleen Ophoff about her newsletter "The Green Fix", and ma...

Behind the Scenes: Are We Europe Designers Eddie Stok&Ana Rodrigues discuss Issue #15 from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.431579

Are We Europe's Creative Director, Eddie Stok and Designer, Ana Rodrigues, discuss the creation of the latest magazine, Down To Earth. 

This was recorded live at Boom Cafe, in Bruss...

This Is What a Generation Sounds Like: Mohamed from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.423122

This week, a story about Mohamed, living in limbo while trapped in a labyrinth of bureaucracy.

This is the fourth episode from our series Listen

This Is What a Generation Sounds Like: Hanna from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.418202

From Minsk and London, a story about the meaning of freedom. Hanna Komar, a poet, was jailed for her activism in Belarus. This week, she tells us what it’s like to move from a place where people...

On The Street: Martinique from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.414380

On the streets of Martinique - still considered an overseas region of France - Producer Giada Santana asks people one question: "How has climate change affected you?"

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The Circle Series: Porto from 2023-12-12T17:39:57.408582

Interested to know more? Find updates on our hubs and cross-border collaborations on the Circle website, Listen

On The Street: Amsterdam from 2023-03-22T06:00

On the streets of Amsterdam, guest producers/media students from the Thomas More University in Flanders - Lukas Emmerechts and Nataliya Huchok - ask people one question: "Who or what influences ...

Behind the Scenes: Creative Jarek Oleszczynski from 2022-11-11T05:00

The photo story is about a Polish herbalist who uses traditional knowledge of plants to bring people closer to nature and the bounty it can provide us with.

This was recorded live at FACE ...

This Is What a Generation Sounds Like: Sara from 2022-08-27T15:11:07

This week, a story that spans three generations of women: Sara, her mother, and her grandmother. In their collective lifetimes, Albania entered a communist dictatorship; the regime fell; and the...

On The Street: Berlin from 2022-08-12T08:13:20

On the streets of Berlin, Producer Stefano Montali asks people one question: "When's the last time you were very happy?"

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Behind the Scenes: Are We Europe Editors Anneleen Ophoff&Juli Simond discuss Issue #15 from 2022-07-29T16:56:20

Are We Europe's Editor-in-chief, Anneleen Ophoff and Deputy editor, Juli Simond discuss the latest issue, Down to Earth. 

This was recorded live at Boom Cafe, in Brussels, as part o...

On The Street: Ljubljana from 2022-07-22T14:17:58

On the streets of the capital of her home country, Slovenia, Producer Neža Borkovič asks people one question: "Where do you feel most at home?"

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On The Street: Brussels from 2022-07-15T08:44:01

In the first in our new series, producer Neža Borkovič steps onto the streets of Brussels and asks people one question: "What does an ideal Europe look like to you?"

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Behind the Scenes: Journalist Oleksandr Derevyachenko from 2022-06-27T22:00

Editor-in-chief Anneleen Ophoff speaks to Oleksandr Derevyachenko, a journalist from southeast Ukraine, who wrote a diary during the first month of the war for Are We Europe's recent magazine: "...

Millennial History - Behind the Scenes with Andrea Voets from 2022-06-10T10:02:09

Millennial History host Andrea Voets speaks with Mick ter Reehorst from Are We Europe about the making of Millennial History.

How did Voets and composer Luke Deane create these episodes, w...

Millennial History - Change and Unification (Part 2) from 2022-05-27T06:00

Inga, Winnie, Burkhard and Henning take us to the 90s: a decade of Change and Unification of East and West into the Germany we know today. They recall how a new, capitalistic system was implemen...

Millennial History - Change and Unification (Part 1) from 2022-05-20T07:44:11

Inga, Winnie, Henning & Burkhard were born in East-Germany, in the former GDR. They paint the picture of their youths in a country that no longer exists, the social principles of that society, t...

Millennial History - The Troubles (Part 1) from 2022-04-29T05:00

Chris, Agnes and Michael grew up during the final years of the Troubles: the long and messy conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Northern-Ireland. They help us understand the basics of ...

Millennial History - Children of the Decree (Part 3) from 2022-04-15T05:00

Catinca & Joanna dive into sensitive topics of crucial importance. What does it mean to be a good parent? How can you start to trust others, the world, and yourself, when the basis of your exist...

Millennial History - Sicily, Mafia and Falcone from 2022-03-25T06:00

Aki grew up on Sicily. On the 23rd of May 1992, the mafia blew up the highway behind his grandmother’s house, killing judge Giovani Falcone. A Millennial History on organised crime, undermining ...

Welcome to Millennial History from 2022-03-23T06:00

A new podcast from Resonate Productions and Are We Europe. Coming March 25. 

In Millennial History, we relive recent history through the eyes of millennials, who were ther...

Are We Europe Presents: Bridging the Atlantic (Online Free Speech) from 2022-03-16T06:00

Guests explain how in the case of platform regulation, the United States and the European Union have converged despite different perspectives.

Jana Gooth (policy advi...

Readout: Diary of a Troll Hunter from 2022-02-16T07:00

A story by Oleksandr Derevyanchenko, from Are We Europe's disinformation magazine "Online Lies, Offline Lives".

Read out by Teresa O'Connell. Edited by Stefano Montali. 

Read the sto...

Readout: Tall, Dark, and Conspiratorial from 2022-02-10T06:00

A story by Adenike Fapohunda, from Are We Europe's disinformation magazine "Online Lies, Offline Lives".

Read out by Teresa O'Connell. Edited by Stefano Montali. 

Order Are We Europe...

Readout: How to Talk to a Loved One turned Conspiracy Theorist from 2022-01-31T08:54:43

A readout of a story by Thess Mostoles, from Are We Europe's disinformation magazine "Online Lies, Offline Lives".

Read out by Juli Simond. Edited by Stefano Montali. 

Order Are We E...

Readout: Down The Rabbit Hole from 2022-01-24T13:56:06

A readout of a story by Sofia Cherici, from Are We Europe's disinformation magazine "Online Lies, Offline Lives".

Read out by Juli Simond. Edited by Stefano Montali. 

Order Are We Eu...

Are We Europe Presents: Europarama with Yanis Varoufakis from 2022-01-20T06:00

The "other now" described by Varoufakis could exist somewhere in a fissure of the time-space continuum. In this dimension, capitalism (as we know it) is dead, but a liberal and democratic societ...

Are We Europe Presents: Bridging the Atlantic (Translantic Relations Today) from 2022-01-18T05:00

What are Transatlantic Relations today? 

This episode reaches back into the past to one of the most important artifacts of transatlantic history. Then, Listen

Are We Europe Presents: Europarama (An Unfinished History) from 2021-08-23T04:00

Welcome to Witness, an open-source fictional world exploring the future of economy. 

For this season, Europarama joins forces with Edgeryders and their Science Fiction Economics Lab to bui...

Behind the Scenes: Andrei Popoviciu on Queer Roma activism in Romania from 2021-08-16T04:00

Anneleen Ophoff, the editor in chief of our queer issue, interviews Andrei Popoviciu about his piece on queer activism in Romania. Andrei goes behind the scenes of writing the flagship piece, detai...

Readout: Queer Stories in Pastel Paperbacks from 2021-07-26T04:00

This week you're listening to a story from our latest prin magazine, The Queer Issue. How imagination, rebellion, and courage give queerness a voice in Young Adult literature. Written and read by...

Are We Europe presents: The Europeans (Europe's Next Illiberal Democracy?) from 2021-07-20T10:10:26

Slovenia, aka Katy's favourite country, is increasingly drawing comparisons with Hungary and Poland when it comes to the state of its democracy. Can this worrying direction of travel be reversed? T...

Are We Europe Presents: Europe&Sentiment (Do you need to be Heterosexual to be European? Part 2) from 2021-07-15T04:00

How do you define your European identity when you are a woman, a lesbian and for Joëlle Sambi an afro-descendant? Does this intersectionality have an impact on the place lesbian women hold in Europ...

Are We Europe Presents: Europe&Sentiment (Do you need to be Heterosexual to be European? Part 1) from 2021-07-15T04:00

How do you build your European identity when you are gay? What role does the European Union play in protecting the rights and freedoms of LGBTQ + rights in Europe? Jarek Oleszczynski from Poland ...

Are We Europe Presents: Europe&Sentiment (Do you need to be a man to be European?) from 2021-07-15T04:00

What is the place of women in Europe? What is the role of the European Union in defending women's rights? Has the European project been an asset in the emancipation of women? Naomi, Prune, Gosia a...

Readout: Waiting for the Cutscene from 2021-07-12T04:00

How a queer video game character made Edwin van de Scheur fall in love. This story is a part of our magazine—The Queer Issue.

AWE Presents: Foreign Insiders from 2021-06-28T04:00

Anatoly Chernousov and Daniyar Sabitov, the editors of Kok.Team, a media platform for LGBT Kazakhs, reflect on the freedoms they’ve gained since moving to the Czech Republic.

Are We Europe presents: Foreign Insiders (Blue is the Warmest Color) from 2021-06-28T04:00

Are We Europe present Foreign Insiders, a podcast that features stories of foreigners—immigants, expats, refugees, asylum-seekers, aliens, outsiders, and everyone else—making a life in the Czech...

Originals: The Iron Connection from 2021-06-21T04:00

The golden age of train travel truly speaks to the imagination. But what does travelling across Europe by train feel like in the 21st century? This episode has been produced and reported by Kim A...

Are We Europe presents: Europarama (Sailing to Witness) from 2021-06-14T04:00

Welcome to Witness, an open-source fictional world exploring the future of economy. 

For this season, Europarama joins forces with Edgeryders and their Science Fiction Economics Lab to bui...

This Is What a Generation Sounds Like: Josh and Franco from 2021-05-31T04:00

Producers: Katz Laszlo and Josh Prezioso

Editorial support: Dominic Kraemer, Katy Lee, Andrei Popoviciu and Priyanka Shankar

Music: Listen

Originals: On the Fence from 2021-05-24T04:00

Across Europe, vaccine hesitancy has become a common phenomenon. Research shows that neither fact-checks nor experts will tilt the population’s attitudes towards vaccines. Freelance journalists Dai...

Readout: The Generation Game from 2021-05-17T04:00

In 1974, the greatest Dutch team of all time had been beaten by West Germany in the World Cup Final in Munich. Fourteen years later, they returned to Germany under the same coach, Rinus Michels,...

Are We Europe Presents: The Europeans (Unravelling a Scandal) from 2021-05-10T04:00

The Oscar-nominated Romanian film Collective is enraging and inspiring in equal measure. This week we hear from Răzvan Luțac, one of the investigative journalists who uncovered the vast healthcare ...

Readout: A Chess Set for the Bride from 2021-04-26T04:00

From the 1960s to the 1990s, four Georgian women ruled the world stage—also including Nana Alexandria and Nana Ioseliani. Dubbed druzhina—a combat-unit—by commentators, they inspired a mu...

Readout: Meet the Snagglerats from 2021-04-19T04:00

Despite skateboarding’s inclusion in the Olympics and the recent push for equality, most skaters are boys. This story is from our latest magazine, The Sports Issue, and uncovers the story of "Th...

Are We Europe Presents: The Europeans (The Great Reverse Migration) from 2021-04-12T04:00

For decades, Eastern Europe has suffered a massive brain drain of people heading abroad in search of opportunity. But something remarkable happened during the pandemic: huge numbers started comi...

Are We Europe Presents: All Rites (Christmas in Basque Country) from 2020-12-21T08:33:43

Are We Europe presents the first episode from one of our Podcast Family Members: All Rites. Have you ever wondered how Christmas is celebrated differently throughout Europe and how traditions and c...

Are We Europe Presents: All Rites from 2020-12-21T08:33:43

Are We Europe presents the first episode from one of our Podcast Family Members: All Rites. Have you ever wondered how Christmas is celebrated differently throughout Europe and how traditions and c...

Originals: Oh crumbs! from 2020-12-15T14:56:35

In this spoken word poem, Nikita Yasmin Shah reflects on the multiple strands of connectivity Britain has with former colonies and how this relationship has been erased. As a British-Kenyan-Indi...

Originals: Toxic Waste from 2020-10-29T12:14:04

How a Ukrainian food bank is fighting the country’s landfill problem, one plate at a time.

Originals: Politics as Religion in Malta from 2020-10-15T20:48:56

It’s been three years since the murder of Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. While four men have been charged over her assassination, those who ordered her killing have not ...

Purple Keys, Part 2 from 2020-09-25T10:27:15

Purple Keys is a podcast which uncovers solutions to tackle gender-based violence during the pandemic. In this episode journalists Monica Pelliccia and Elena Ledda look into how a French mobile ap...

Purple Keys, Part 1 from 2020-09-25T10:19:01

Purple Keys is a podcast which uncovers solutions to tackle gender-based violence during the pandemic. In this episode journalists Monica Pelliccia and Elena Ledda investigate reproductive rights ...

Originals: COVID-19 - Too many bodies to bury? from 2020-06-28T14:23:46

From Wuhan to Bergamo, New York to Rio de Janeiro, the coronavirus has increased the strain on the systems dealing with the logistics of corpses. While most countries have long and detailed proc...

Originals: A Tale of Trolls from 2020-04-22T09:31:22

The spread of Russian disinformation has taken mythical proportions. Professionalized and more convincing than ever, pro-Russian internet trolls and cyber experts are making vigorous efforts to ...