In this episode you will hear: Interviews: • A hero from zero (part 2) Marek Probosz – a Polish success story in Hollywood, where he came for a short visit in 1987 as a big Easter European star – film, television and stage actor in his native Poland with more than 50 starring roles and numerous awards, known across Eastern Europe as the “De Niro of Poland”(part 2 of the interview), • Polish-Jewish roots turned life mission Peter Jassem – the head of the Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation, a dynamic organization in Toronto. An accomplished architect in his day job, he has devoted over a…
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This story is featured in EPISODE 45 Philip Zave is a creative artist from Toronto, performing on stage, making multi-media projects, travelling and striking up conversations in cafes. He recently visited Eastern Europe and spent a week in Kraków. He shares his impressions on Episode 45 and some of his photos below. Philip’s website: www.philipzavephotography.com
This story is features in EPISODE 45 “Visit Poland – 10 Things That Will SHOCK You About Poland” is a video on YouTube. Mark Wolters has been doing his great travel videos “Wolters World” about “Travel, Languages & Life Abroad” from all around the world since 2009, having attracted over 217,000 subscribers. His entertaining and informative videos have had a whopping 52,161,088 views. As Mark himself says: “Tired of Hearing that Town X is the Next Prague? Or the Paris of The North/South/East/West? At Wolters World we are too, so we give you honest to goodness travel advice on what…
This story is featured in Episode 44 and Episode 45 To learn about Marek Probosz, one of a handful of Poles who made it in Hollywood, where he came for a short visit in 1987 as a big Easter European star – film, television and stage actor in his native Poland with more than 50 starring roles and numerous awards, known across Eastern Europe as the “De Niro of Poland”. In Episode 45 he talks about Hollywood, his family and his goals.
This story is featured in Episode 44 Marek Probosz is one of a handful of Poles who made it in Hollywood, where he came for a short visit in 1987 as a big Easter European star – film, television and stage actor in his native Poland with more than 50 starring roles and numerous awards, known across Eastern Europe as the “De Niro of Poland”. When you come to the centre of the film universe and decide to stay, you start from zero. Marek did and succeeded again, having worked with the best and the biggest Hollywood stars. Marek Probosz is…
In this episode you will hear: Interviews: • A hero from zero Marek Probosz – a Polish success story in Hollywood, where he came for a short visit in 1987 as a big Easter European star – film, television and stage actor in his native Poland with more than 50 starring roles and numerous awards, known across Eastern Europe as the “De Niro of Poland”(part 1 of the interview), • Poland’s first black parliamentarian John Godson – the first black man in Polish Parliament. He moved from Nigeria to Poland in 1993 and in 2001 received Polish citizenship. A minister, missionary, academic, politician, actor,…
EPISODE 44 features Renaissance people. Here is another one. We first met many years ago when he visited Toronto – then I interviewed him in Polish for our newspaper “Gazeta” (interview in Polish). I have been following his life and career with great interest ever since. John Godson Godson Chikama Onyekwere was born in Nigeria to an Igbo family. He moved to Poland in 1993, and in 2001 became a Polish citizen. In 2008, he became a member of the Łódź City Council. In 2007, he unsuccessfully ran in the Polish parliamentary election. In 2010, he was re-elected for the…
Featured in Episode 43. Tomasz Kozłowski is a psychologist by profession, and his life passion is extreme sports – mainly skydiving, but he was involved in many dangerous activities such as mountain rescues. Those are not so distant from his work, where he deals with other people’s fears, risk-taking and decision making. His most daring feat was a record-high skydive jump from the stratosphere (10,735 m), first such accomplishment of a Polish team of skydivers who set an unofficial world record and three official European records. This experience resulted in his book “The History of a Thousand Fears”, “a book…
Part 1 of this story is featured in our Episode 42, while Part 2 – in Episode 43. You met Johannes Schneider in Episode 29, when he talked about his experience with Poles and Poland. Johannes is German, now living and working in Canada. He is married to a Pole. In Episodes 42 and 43 we talk about how Germany deals with its past, how its history is presented in the system of education, how Germans see Poland, etc.
In this episode you will hear: How a young German sees the complicated relationship between Germany and Poland – the past and the present (part 2). What Canada’s Ambassador to Poland sees as his role in Poland and how he promotes Canada there. How an extreme sport can lead to much more than an adrenaline rush and records. Interviews: • Johannes Schneider – a German, born and educated in Germany, who also lived for a number of years in Austria, now a Canadian, talks about his native country’s troubled past – WWII and its relationship with Poland (part 2 of…