Issue 22: October 2023

In this section we bring you two fantastic original pieces.

The first piece comes from the team at Quid Pro Euro, by Felix Trench and Zack Fortais-Gomm. Quid Pro Euro is a fiction comedy podcast about Europe, and the series explores how people in the 90’s predicted the EU would look like in the 21st century - and how wrong they were. The segment we feature is from the series’ first episode on ‘Administration.’

The second piece comes from What’s The Mate?, the longest running Bear Radio original podcast, launched in 2018. What’s the Mate shares the entirely wacky things that take place in Berlin and brings on some of the funniest people in the city to turn them into something even wackier. Cut to nearly 5 years later, and What’s The Mate has released 50 episodes and shared over 150 weird, quirky and interesting stories out of Berlin. This excerpt is from episode 43: ‘The Episode With a Killer Hat and Cats with Opinions,’ where host Julia shares a surprising fact about gas lamps in Berlin.

Our theme music is from Lucas Carey, with audio from Epidemic Sound. Cover art by Sian Amber Fletcher.

This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio.

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