A podcast about tour guides navigating a pandemic. We don't get up-close, but we do get personal with tour guides from all over the world; documenting their highs, lows, hopes and fears, as they face an uncertain future.
Episodes
Thursday May 14, 2020
Thursday May 14, 2020
How do you tell the difference between a rollercoaster and a history tour...? Today's guide decided pretty quickly that jokes were not her thing. We talk pre-tour nerves, teenage bullies and the beers of the future.
Conversation from April 17th 2020
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Music by Mark Schilders.
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Wednesday May 13, 2020
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Today's guide is all about cycling, cycling and cycling. We learn what a 'durchgangszimmer' is, the correct way of putting a stick behind the door, and how to market yourself for the future tourism industry.
Conversation from April 7th 2020
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Cycling Berlin Brandenburg. And Asaf's YouTube channel.
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Music by Mark Schilders.
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Tuesday May 12, 2020
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Our guest today couldn't believe it snowed in March. Or that he couldn't get a corona-test while showing flu symptoms. We talk about improving our lives as guides, the inability to make decisions in times of crisis, and the mind-blowing effect of window-cleaning.
Conversation from April 8th 2020
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Here's Josh at the Landwehr canal talking about urban planning and people power.
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Music by Mark Schilders.
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Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
In their 14 years in Berlin this anthropologist and guide has seen the city transformed. And not always in a good way. We talk capitalist baggage, the death star of tourism and dancing for mental health.
Conversation from April 10th 2020
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Financial, legal and mental health guidance, especially those with non-German backgrounds.
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Friday May 08, 2020
Friday May 08, 2020
Having broken her ankle last year, the Refugee Voices founder understands how precarious tour guiding can be. We talk to the star of her own tragicomedy about how a relatively comfortable crisis can still be triggering and how she plans to explain all of this to the baby she’s carrying.
Conversation from April 13th 2020
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Thursday May 07, 2020
Thursday May 07, 2020
This guide from the UK had a feeling that things might have to change. From severed connections to strengthened bonds, isolation has made his world curiously bigger. We talk about keeping it simple and why we can’t return to default mode.
Conversation from April 13th 2020.
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Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 2020
This guide has been in the game since before the Berlin Wall came down. And now she’s a housewife for the first time. We talk about the importance of spending time apart and why she doesn’t give advice. And, of course, the value in seeing other people’s noses.
Beate is quarantining here. Conversation from April 10th 2020.
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Tuesday May 05, 2020
Tuesday May 05, 2020
Today’s guide left Syria in 2013 and became a founding member of the Refugee Voices team in Berlin. His brother chose to stay behind but is now stuck in the German capital on an ill-fated research trip. We talk about nostalgia, corona tours and finding the humour in tragedy.
Conversation from April 23rd 2020
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Refugee Voices Tours
Explaining the Pandemic to my Past Self - YouTube
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Music by Mark Schilders.
Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
Coming from Venezuela, Coronavirus is not this guide’s first crisis. Is that why his outlook is so sunny? We talk about embracing the new normal, the Titanic that kept on sinking and the tour of the future .
Conversation from April 16th 2020
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Jonathan's music ventures.
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Music by Mark Schilders
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Friday May 01, 2020
Friday May 01, 2020
Today’s guide talks to us from his own private island. He moved to Berlin to get away from the countryside, but now rural Brandenburg is his refuge from city life. We talk about how much water it takes to wash yourself and why he’s wary of too many cars with Berlin number plates...
Conversation from April 9th 2020.
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Music by Mark Schilders.