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 16, 2020
Apr 16, 2020
25 min
From her mum’s place in the English countryside, we talk German gangsta rap and nose-picker's regret with a guide plagued by visions of her fridge exploding. Conversation from April 7th 2020.
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At time of recording Maisie is here.
Radio Spätkauf: Berlin's news in English.
Music by Mark Schilders.
For help filling out (Hartz IV) unemployment papers, Hartzer Roller. Feel free to leave Andreas Wallbaum a donation.
Apr 15, 2020
Apr 15, 2020
21 min
This guide’s three-year-old knows something’s up, but how do you explain it? Swimming petri dishes, the Boogeyman and why we’re waving at Grandpa from the window. Conversation from April 7th 2020.
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Torben's tour company is Berlin Perspectives
Hartz IV help and donations to the Hartzer Roller.
Music by Mark Schilders
Apr 14, 2020
Apr 14, 2020
17 min
We are back in Berlin, talking to a guide and mother about self-motivation, financial pressure and being grateful for what you’ve got. Oh, and a certain fat pigeon. Conversation from April 9th 2020.
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Music by Mark Schilders.
Apr 14, 2020
Apr 14, 2020
17 min
When your day was supposed to start with a visa appointment but ends with a puppy. We talk accelerated cohabitation, rules for Netflix and what Susan’s mum means by ten good years. Conversation from April 7th 2020.
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Music by Mark Schilders.
Apr 14, 2020
Apr 14, 2020
19 min
All the way in from Italy’s northwestern frontier, we hear from a former Berlin tour guide whose past as a Carthusian monk has prepared him for life in lockdown. We talk silence, solitude and finding your voice. Conversation from April 7th 2020.
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Apr 12, 2020
Apr 12, 2020
7 min
A Day At The Lake marks the beginning of this series on tour guides navigating a pandemic.
The Low Season is about people who have seen their livelihoods dissapear. On top of all the quarantining, self-isolating and social distancing, they are now questioning what their future professional and personal lives will look like.
Three new episodes every week!