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How To F#€k Up An Airport

Radio Spaetkauf Presents

What went wrong at BER? Berlin's unfinished airport has been in construction for over 11 years, cost have blown from €1 to €5.4 billion, and there's no end in sight. It's a story of incompet...

Episodes

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"The Culture and The Continent" RSxEAB Season 2: Saving Culture Ep. 4

"Saving Culture" is Season 2 of Radio Spaetkauf 's Collaboration with the EAB - Europäische Akademie Berlin . In Episode four, "The Culture...

01:22:11Jan 23, 2026

"What is a Museum? And Why?" RSxEAB Season 2: Saving Culture

"Saving Culture" is Season 2 of Radio Spaetkauf 's Collaboration with the EAB - Europäische Akademie Berlin . In Episode three "What is a Mu...

01:13:40Dec 23, 2025

"They're Our Future" | Certain Futures Episode Four

A visit to the emergency room illuminates what resilience means through personal experience. What happens when a European demographic resear...

22:12Dec 16, 2025

"All That We Want" | Certain Futures Episode Three

What happens when a European demographic research project asks a Berlin podcaster from the United States to explore their findings? Find out...

28:01Nov 7, 2025

"Ageing Alla Milanese" | Certain Futures Episode 2

Rain Clouds and Silver Linings. Certain Futures host Daniel Stern walks through Milan, recording both hope and apprehension in the streets....

30:01Sep 23, 2025

"9 Months Per Year" | Certain Futures Episode 1

What happens when a European demographic research project asks a Berlin podcaster (Dan from the RS team) to explore their findings? We find...

25:23Aug 21, 2025

RSxEAB: "Everything is Culture!"

"Saving Culture" is Season 2 of Radio Spaetkauf 's Collaboration with the EAB - Europäische Akademie Berlin . In Episode two: "Everything is...

01:17:53Aug 14, 2025

"Can We Support Subcultures?" RSxEAB Season 2: Saving Culture

"Saving Culture" is Season 2 of Radio Spaetkauf 's Collaboration with the EAB - Europäische Akademie Berlin . In Episode one "Can We Support...

01:12:26Jul 16, 2025

"City of Tomorrow" RSxEAB

In this episode RSxEAB of Radio Spaetkauf (our spinoff series recorded in collaboration with the Europäische Akademie Berlin )we focus on th...

01:06:20Nov 1, 2024

Toilets, Sidewalks & Parks - Who Owns Berlin? RSxEAB

Public space in Berlin is used for private profit. Does that rob or enrich the citizens? From business-run toilets to footpath vehicles and...

01:22:10Sep 11, 2024

Beauty In The Streets: Graffiti & Street Art - RSxEAB

Recorded live in Grunewald, Dan is joined by guests Josefine Köhn-Haskins, Ryan Balmer, Júlia Mota Albuquerque and a handful of chirping bir...

01:00:21Aug 1, 2024

Maisie's Voice – The Last Conversation With Maisie Hitchcock

Zombies in the GDR. Deutschrap. Heavenly lakes. Joy despite cancer. Days before her death, Maisie Hitchcock and I talked for one last time....

02:11:19Jun 17, 2024

RSxEAB: Sharing Urban Space

RSxEAB: "Sharing Urban Space" . Radio Spaetkauf host Daniel Stern dives into a discussion of public spaces informed by three insightful gues...

01:08:37May 7, 2024

Rent Freeze #4: How To F#€k Up A Mietendeckel

The Berlin Mietendeckel experiment is finished. The city's revolutionary attempt to freeze rental prices for five years, and reduce overpric...

01:25:41May 7, 2021

Rent Freeze #3: Don't Spend It

This month residents of Berlin should experience the biggest collective rent reduction in history. About 340,000 residents - one in six - ma...

41:00Nov 22, 2020

How To F#€k Up An Airport #5: Crash Take-Off

Every Berliner knows the new airport is about to open. But few know about the disasters that could happen next. We're here to explain. Masie...

01:06:12Oct 29, 2020

Rent Freeze #2: Magic Words

How To F#€k Up An Airport team presents: Rent Freeze, a podcast about Berlin's rental revolution. Berlin's rent freeze has begun, but nobody...

26:51Mar 5, 2020

Rent Freeze #1: The Experiment

Radio Spaetkauf presents our new series - Rent Freeze. What happens when an entire city of 3.5 million residents stops paying rent increases...

18:31Jan 29, 2020

How To F#€k Up An Airport #4: Never Finished (live!)

A special live recording of the fourth and (maybe) last episode. Take a tour of all four of Berlin's under-construction, out-of-use, falling...

01:03:25Apr 30, 2018

How To F#€k Up An Airport #3: Money for Nothing

BER has been built twice - the first time incorrectly, the second time incompletely. We hear from Marco, an engineer who worked on site. Emp...

51:46Mar 2, 2018