The 3rd period of the podcast “Understanding Ukraine” begins. It is simply a joint production of the TOK FM Foundation and the Stefan Batory Foundation. Talks about Ukraine are led by Agnieszka Lichnerowicz with Edwin Bendyk.
Like in erstwhile podcast series, its authors will effort to penetrate frequently superficial analyses to better realize what is happening in Ukraine. In subsequent episodes they will scope into the past, traditions, archetypes, myths to outline what shapes the identity of modern Ukrainians, their imagination and what inspires them to fight. They will mention to the economical perspective, the geopolitical environment, culture, but besides the current game of interests.
According to the tradition of the podcast, Agnieszka Lichnerowicz and Edwin Bendyk begin the 3rd period with a summary of the latest sociological research, analyzing how 3 years of war changed Ukrainians and their country.
The fresh period of the podcast “Understanding Ukraine” was launched on 28 January and is publically available on the tokfm.pl website and in the mobile application TOK FM. fresh episodes are premiered all 2 weeks on Tuesdays at 3:00 p.m.
All seasons “Understanding Ukraine” are available to everyone in the TOK FM app and on streaming platforms: Spotify, Apple Podcast and Youtube.
Agnieszka Lichnerovich Tok FM has been associated with Radio for almost 2 decades. He runs the “Worldview” and “Evening” programmes, a associate of the Radio Club “Popular”. As a reporter, she reported on the Orange Revolution and Majdan in Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea, the Russian aggression on Donbas in 2014 and the war after February 24; she reported on the war (and then its effects) in Georgia; she watched the next elections in Russia. She was in the alleged arabian Spring of Tunisia and Egypt, for respective years traveling to the undergoing transformation of Myanmar. She served dozens of Brussels peaks and authoritative trips of abroad representatives of Polish authorities. As a publicist, she is peculiarly curious in social transformations and movements, historical policies, social policies and economical ideologies, especially in east Europe. She is, among others, the winner of the R. Kapusciński PAP Award.
Edwin Bendyk is the president of the Foundation. Stefan Batory, journalist, journalist, writer. He works in the weekly “Politics”. Author of the book “A Poisoned Well. Thing about power and freedom" (2002), "Antimatrix. Man in the network maze" (2004), "Love, War, Revolution. Sketches for the time of crisis" (2009) and "Rebellion Network" (2012), "In Poland, that is nowhere. The Thing About the Fall and Future of the World" (2020). In 2014, he published together with Jack Santorski and Witold Orlovski a book "How to Live in a planet That Has Madned". The creator of the Centre for investigation on the Future of Collegium Civitas. At the Centre for Social Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences he conducts a seminar on fresh media. associate of the Polish PEN Club.
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