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The Debrief

Feasting on Fat Thursday

Courtesy Wojtek Starowicz/Cukiernia Starowicz

This week, as we approach the Christian period of Lent and mark the end of carnival, Poles up and down the country will be feasting on Fat Thursday, or ‘Tłusty Czwartek’, which is the last Thursday before Ash Wednesday.

Leica exhibition celebrates one of Poland’s finest photographers

In this episode of The Debrief, we take a look at the work of Bogdan Dziworski, a Polish photographer and cinematographer who has just turned 80.

Raising the bar on Polish education

A Polish NGO is training a new generation of teachers to boost the Polish public education system, with an aim to reboot the school system nationwide.

Warsaw’s hidden rivers

In this episode of The Debrief, a look at the watery world of Poland’s capital. Host John Beauchamp speaks to Konrad Schiller from the Warsaw Museum about a new exhibition which highlights the city’s hidden waterways.

Breaking Ondine’s curse

In this episode of The Debrief, we take a look at Ondinata, a new musical release which aims to raise awareness of CHS and help a family in need…

Spotlight on Polish architecture in new permanent exhibition

In this episode of The Debrief, we take a look at ‘Przekroje’, a new permanent exhibition in Kraków on the history of Polish architecture.

Christmas Special: Stargazing with the ‘Guy from Google’

In this special end-of-year edition of The Debrief, John Beauchamp is joined by Jarosław Juszkiewicz, a broadcaster, YouTuber, astronomer, and perhaps best known for being the Polish voice of Google Maps.

Newly found fossils reveal a Jurassic park in Poland’s heartlands

Dinosaur specialists are hailing the find at the most spectacular dinosaur discovery ever in Poland, the biggest of its type in Europe and possibly the world.

Kraków’s MuFo takes photography back to basics

In this edition of The Debrief, we talk to Dr Agnieszka Olszewska from the Museum of Photography in Kraków about the institution’s upcoming birthday and plans for the future.

New game fosters investment in cultural heritage

In this week’s show host John Beauchamp speaks to Justyna Dominiak, a passionate educator who has just made a prize-winning boardgame to get kids interested in cultural heritage.

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Sport

Swiatek takes Italian Open and notches up 28 wins in a row

Top-seeded Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek beat Tunisia's Ons Jabeur (seeded ninth) 6:2, 6:2 in the final of the WTA 1000 clay court championship in Rome on Sunday.

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‘They stopped being children and became witnesses of terror and violence!’ Archive of postwar drawings reveals children’s harrowing experiences of WWII

Created in 1946 as part of a post-war nationwide school project, the pencil and crayon images obtained by TFN show the full, terrible experience of war from the perspective of children.

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