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Documentary uses unpublished archival films to recreate extraordinary life of ‘Poland’s Indiana Jones’, explorer and filmmaker Tony Halik

The new documentary reconstructs Halik’s remarkable and unique life story over half a decade using archival materials, including hitherto unpublished films shot by Halik from his multitude of journeys around the globe. Janusz Uklejewski/PAP

The new documentary produced by Marcin Borchardt reconstructs Halik’s remarkable and unique life story over half a decade using archival materials, including hitherto unpublished films shot by Halik from his multitude of journeys around the globe.

Internet highest-grossing advertising market in Q2 - report

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the internet overtook television becoming Poland's most lucrative advertising market in the 2nd quarter of 2020, the Polish Economic Institute (PIE) said in a report published on Saturday.

Polsat TV signs preliminary deal to buy portal operator Interia Group

Private Polish TV broadcaster Polsat has concluded a preliminary deal with Bauer Media Group to buy web portal operator Interia Group, Polsat spokesman Tomasz Matwiejczuk has informed PAP.

Polish public television CEO dismissed

The National Media Council has recalled Jacek Kurski from the post of president of Telewizja Polska SA (TVP), Polish public television.

Polish Traces: Barcelona II

Krzysztof visits a TV company in Barcelona to find out why one of their hit shows which has been running for 14 years is called Polonia.

Gripping thriller The Pleasure Principle to be aired on Franco-German TV station Arte

First shown in Poland, the murder mystery starring Małgorzata Buczkowska and the Czech Republic’s Karel Roden has been a hit with viewers and critically acclaimed for its exceptional quality.

5,4,3,2…On air! Country’s first Public TV broadcast aired 80 years ago today

Broadcast during the 2nd Annual Radio Exposition held at city’s YMCA building, the exposition was intended to last until September 10. But both the TV broadcast and exposition were decimated by the outbreak of war, with the YMCA and Prudential buildings taken direct hits from German bombers.

Good Morning, Poland! Interview with Anna Kalczyńska

When you're one of Poland's best known presenters and TV personalities, how do you deal with the adoration, the pressures of being a role model, as well as the online hate? In this emotional and moving episode of Heart of Poland, Patrick Ney talks to Anna Kalczyńska, presenter of one of Poland's most-watched breakfast TV programmes, Dzień Dobry TVN.

Lights, camera, action? The peculiar Polish theatre tradition

For over sixty-five years, Polish audiences have delighted in the weekly cultural tradition of classic and contemporary theatre broadcast live into the homes of millions.

Top 5 articles:

  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
  • Villager finds stash of 17th-century coins after falling off his bike while looking for mushrooms
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

The first report:

  • Opposition presents pandemic aid programme
  • Ruling Law and Justice continues to have highest voter support - poll
  • Belarus protests Enduring Soldiers commemoration in east Poland
  • Poland’s Świątek wins Adelaide International tennis tournament
  • PM presents National Recovery Plan

Exclusive

‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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