We bring immersive, border-breaking stories about identity and culture from all corners of Europe straight to your ears. Every week you can listen to a readout from our print magazine, an episode from one of the podcasts in our Podcast Family, an exclusive behind the scenes interview or an original narrative story. Using cutting-edge audio storytelling techniques, we tell the stories of Europeans from Moldova to Ireland.
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 who you vote for?"
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Music:
"Lofi Study" - FASSounds
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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 B in Brussels, as part of a live, Are We Europe-hosted event.
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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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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 have to fight for basic rights, to a place where people take them for granted.
This is the fifth episode from our series This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: intimate stories from young Europeans across the continent.
A beautiful visual version of this podcast will be available soon! In the meantime, check out the first visual podcast in this series: Josh and Franco.
This series is a joint production between Are We Europe and The Europeans, funded by Allianz Kulturstiftung, an independent not-for-profit cultural foundation committed to strengthening cohesion in Europe using the tools of art and culture. Find out more at kulturstiftung.allianz.de.
Producers: Katy Lee and Hanna Komar
Sound design: Katz Laszlo and Wojciech Oleksiak
Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak
Editors: Katz Laszlo and Dominic Kraemer
Music: ‘Girl in White’ by Naviband, ‘Ballerina’ by Yehezkel Raz, ‘Ballerina Remix’ by Yehezkel Raz and Lalinea, ‘Магутны Божа’ by Volny Chor; ‘Looking for You’ by Christof Waters; Blue Dot Sessions; and Papa Bo mixing tracks by Meute, live during the protests in Minsk.
Theme music by Jim Barne. SFX from Freesound.org.
Original Airing: June 2022
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This week, a story about Mohamed, living in limbo while trapped in a labyrinth of bureaucracy.
This is the fourth episode from our series This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: intimate stories from young Europeans across the continent.
A beautiful visual version of this podcast will be available soon! In the meantime, check out the first visual podcast in this series: Josh and Franco.
This series is a joint production between Are We Europe and The Europeans, funded by Allianz Kulturstiftung, an independent not-for-profit cultural foundation committed to strengthening cohesion in Europe using the tools of art and culture. Find out more at kulturstiftung.allianz.de.
Producers: Katz Laszlo and Mohamed Bah
Mixing and Mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak
Sound design: Katz Laszlo
Editor: Katy Lee
Editorial support: Dominic Kraemer and Wojciech Oleksiak
Music: I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel To Be Free, covered by Bahghi; Ancore une Staggione by Bottega Baltazar; Blurry by Curtis Cole; Kongo by Trio Particular; Coco Bread by Wearethegood; Mas Feliz Del Mundo by Ofir Atar; Fandanguillo also by Ofir Atar; No One Is Out Here by Yehezkel Raz. Theme music by Jim Barne. SFX from Freesound.org.
Original Airing: April 2022
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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 then there was a transition. And through it all, there was a dish: trahana.
This is the third episode from our series This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: intimate stories from young Europeans across the continent.
This series is a joint production between Are We Europe and The Europeans, funded by Allianz Kulturstiftung, an independent not-for-profit cultural foundation committed to strengthening cohesion in Europe using the tools of art and culture. Find out more at kulturstiftung.allianz.de.
Producers: Katz Laszlo and Sara
Assistant producer: Priyanka Shankar
Editor: Katy Lee
Sound design: Katz Laszlo
Editorial support: Dominic Kraemer, Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak
Music: Era e Feminise, by Elina Duni; Song of Emigration, by Women’s Choir from Permet; Tana, by Saziso; Ka Nje mot e gjysem viti, by Elina Duni Quartet; Jonuzi Me Shoket by Vaome Kaba; Ballerina by Yehezkel Raz; Mëmëdheu by the Peter Pan Quartet; Jim Barne. SFX from Freesound.org.
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This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. Find more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family.
Original Airing: November 2021
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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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Music:
"bedtime after a coffee" - Barradeen
"Morning Routine [Lofi Study Music] - Ghostrifter Official
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 Brussels, as part of a live, Are We Europe-hosted event.
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Climate activist Cass Hebron spoke to Are We Europe's Editor-in-Chief Anneleen Ophoff about her newsletter "The Green Fix", and making the changes needed to have a positive impact on the climate crisis.
This was recorded live at Boom Cafe, in Brussels, as part of a live, Are We Europe-hosted event.
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Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
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Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.