Author: myPOLcast

POLcast is an English language podcast, a colourful audio magazine delivered directly to your smartphone, computer or tablet. POLcast is created for everybody interested in Poland. If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother - you will hear something helping you to enrich these relations. Each episode brings you interesting interviews, historical facts, trivia and more.

This story was featured in: Episode 1 Dr. Andrzej Rozbicki is a passionate music teacher in Toronto’s Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School. Conductor and director of Celebrity Symphony Orchestra, organizer of huge concerts with renowned musicians from Europe, in which his music students regularly participate, he created a unique program for high school students – Music and History, approved by Ontario’s Ministry of Education and implemented annually in collaboration with the Toronto Catholic District School Board, the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland and Piast Travel. Three weeks in Europe is an unforgettable close encounter with culture and history…

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This story was featured in: Episode 1 The festival was launched in 1999 and since then it has presented hundreds of Polish films: features, documentaries, shorts, and animations. Its irganizer have invited dozens of filmmakers from Poland. The annual meeting with Polish film in Hollywood – the Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles was created and is directed by Vladek Juszkiewicz. POLcast interviews Vladek to get behind the scenes – how is it to promote Polish film in Hollywood, what do American filmmakers and viewers think about Polish cinema? Here is the full-length interview (in Episode One of POLcast we present…

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Jazz played a huge role in Poland’s fight with communism. It was actually a  symbol of freedom and strongly linked with all genres of art that struggled for artistic independence. Jazz was banned from the radio, there were no jazz records in stores, no books, but Poles, as poles always do, didn’t give up. They learned all about jazz by listening to a shortwave radio broadcast of Willis Connover’s Voice of America “Jazz Hour”, many smuggled jazz records from abroad and that’s where they got the inspiration to create their own, quite famous Polish brand of jazz. This is how…

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Animowany film ukazujący jeden dzień – od rana do wieczora. To był ostatni dzień istnienia miasta zmiecionego z powierzchni ziemi przez wybuch Wezuwiusza. To miasto w regionie dzisiejszej Kampanii we Włoszech zostało zniszczone w czasach cesarstwa rzymskiego przez erupcję wulkanu Wezuwiusz w dniu 24 sierpnia 79 roku. Popiół wulkaniczny, który zasypał Pompeje, utrwalił budowle, […]

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