Podcasts by How To F#€k Up An Airport
What went wrong at BER? Berlin's unfinished airport has been in construction for over 11 years, cost have blown from €1 to €5.4 billion, and there's no end in sight. It's a story of incompetence, corruption and Berlin's general inability to get it's act together. On this series, Radio Spaetkauf explains the BER disaster fail-by-fail.
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Rent Freeze #4: How To F#€k Up A Mietendeckel from 2021-05-07T09:02:28
The Berlin Mietendeckel experiment is finished. The city’s revolutionary attempt to freeze rental prices for five years, and reduce overpriced leases, has been killed off by Germany’s highest co...
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Rent Freeze #3: Don't Spend It from 2020-11-22T12:39:04
This month residents of Berlin should experience the biggest collective rent reduction in history. About 340,000 residents - one in six - may be eligible for a rent cut under the Mietendeckel, B...
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Episode 5: Crash Take-Off from 2020-10-29T15:59:27
Every Berliner knows the new airport is about to open. But few know about the disasters that could happen next. We're here to explain. Masie, Joel and Jöran take part in a test of the new termin...
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Rent Freeze #2: Magic Words from 2020-03-05T08:26:08
How To F#€k Up An Airport team presents: Rent Freeze, a podcast about Berlin's rental revolution.
Berlin's rent freeze has begun, but nobody seems to know what's going on. Landlords and t...
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Rent Freeze #1: The Experiment from 2020-01-29T18:55:41
Radio Spaetkauf presents our new series - Rent Freeze. What happens when an entire city of 3.5 million residents stops paying rent increases for the next five years? Welcome to Rent Freeze, a po...
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Episode 4: Never Finished (live!) from 2018-04-30T20:53:16
A special live recording of the fourth and (maybe) last episode. Take a tour of all four of Berlin’s under-construction, out-of-use, falling-apart and over-capacity airports. Each has had a part...
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Episode 3: Money for Nothing from 2018-03-02T13:41:34
BER has been built twice - the first time incorrectly, the second time incompletely. We hear from Marco, an engineer who worked on site. Employees were busy stealing copper instead of fixing the...
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Episode 2: Double The Recipe from 2018-02-25T17:00
Days away from the planned 2012 opening party, nothing seemed wrong at BER. What was really going on? On this episode, we look at how the airport managers and politicians were messing with the p...
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Episode 1: Without A Plan from 2018-02-18T20:07:05
BER is the international airport code for Berlin Brandenburg Airport, nickname Willy Brandt. It has also become a signifier of failure, incompetence, corruption and Berlin’s general inability to...
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