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
Apr 30, 2020
Apr 30, 2020
16 min
This guide makes a mean Shakshuka. We talk about what lockdown looks like in Lichterfelde, experiments in drive-by tourism and why older guests are his favourite.
Conversation from April 8th 2020.
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Tours with Eyal
Music by Mark Schilders.
Apr 29, 2020
Apr 29, 2020
23 min
Since moving to the city seven years ago, Berlin’s resilience has long been a source of inspiration for today’s guide. We discuss history as therapy and why her husband is locked in the bedroom.
Conversation from April 5th 2020.
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Sistrionics Podcast, and Facebook and Twitter.
Cheeky episode of the Otter & Walrus.
Music by Mark Schilders.
Apr 28, 2020
Apr 28, 2020
22 min
In his three years as a guide, this Valencian says there have been no bad days - just good days and very very good days. That doesn’t mean he’s not conflicted about the morality of tour guiding as it exists now. Is it time to find a better way to work?
Conversation from April 20th 2020.
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Marc's YouTube Channel 'Explaining a Complex World'
Apr 27, 2020
Apr 27, 2020
22 min
I want to be a tour guide when I grow up. Said no one ever. We’re talking to a seasoned pro about the professional identity crisis faced by tour guides and the surprising gift presented by our novel new situation.
Conversation from April 7th 2020.
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Caroline's podcast 'Dispatches from Berlin' and 'Berlin Histories'.
Music by Mark Schilders.
Apr 24, 2020
Apr 24, 2020
19 min
Talking from a country whose leader thinks Corona is a hoax, this guide and new dad can’t get home. We talk about raising a baby when the world is shaking, why taking to Twitter is worth it, and how the current crisis might be the push some guides need.
Conversation from April 8th 2020.
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Rob Willis on public speaking.
Music by Mark Schilders.
Apr 23, 2020
Apr 23, 2020
22 min
Home is where your life is. We catch up with an Aussie guide and climate activist stuck on the other side of the world. On his last day of quarantine to talk bullshit jobs, storm clouds and uncertainty. But not in a glass-half-empty way.
Conversation from April 11th 2020
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Music by Mark Schilders.
Important information regarding beans on toast.
Remember dial-up?
Campbell's climate activism is linked to Extinction Rebellion.
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Apr 22, 2020
Apr 22, 2020
17 min
Way before Steve abandoned his travel plans halfway to Australia, Chris was in self-isolation to avoid compromising his girlfriend. We talk to two flatmates about letting go of control and what it’s like to get tested for Corona. Which one is reading Little Women whilst the other’s dancing in his underwear...?
Conversations from April 9th 2020.
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Steve's essential math viewing
Steve's essential algebra viewing.
Music by Mark Schilders.
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Apr 21, 2020
Apr 21, 2020
22 min
Did you hear the one about the tour guide who single-handedly put Berlin’s comedy scene on lockdown? We call the Corona Information Hotline to talk German bureaucracy, the tourists who never left and why this feels different to 9/11 and the 2008 crash.
Conversation from April 16th 2020.
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Music by Mark Schilders
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Apr 20, 2020
Apr 20, 2020
26 min
Having been on someone else’s holiday all this time, we now face a choice: Endless January, or post-pandemic plotting. We’re talking to a guide with a million years’ experience about existential dread and the temporary comfort of the lockdown excuse. Brace yourself.
Conversation from April 8th 2020.
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Apr 20, 2020
Apr 20, 2020
19 min
We’re talking to our first guide couple. His flatmate was one of Berlin’s first confirmed COVID-19 cases. Her flatmate is gone, leaving her home alone. Both have to self-quarantine apart. We chat language learning, getting creative and putting the pro in procrastination.
Conversation from April 8th and April 13th 2020.
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Music by Mark Schilders
Do you still not have Duolingo?
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