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Notes from Poland

Stanley Bill

A podcast on Polish politics, culture, history and society from the leading English-language source of news and information on Poland.

Episodes

20 of 34 episodes

Trouble for Tusk

This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks about Donald Tusk’s current Polish government with Daniel Tilles , editor-in...

43:11Jan 14, 2025

"Regaining control of Poland's borders" – interview with deputy interior minister

This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks about the Polish government’s controversial new migration strategy with depu...

41:42Nov 26, 2024

The life and politics of the Kaczyński brothers

This week, in a reversal of roles, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill is in the podcast hot seat, speaking about the life and po...

60:31Nov 25, 2022

"We have the right to German reparations": interview with the MP behind Poland's claim

This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks about the Polish government's war reparations claims of approximately $...

34:10Oct 10, 2022

"NATO peacekeepers needed in Ukraine": interview with Poland's deputy foreign minister

This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks with Paweł Jabłoński , Poland's deputy foreign minister, about Russia&a...

33:13Mar 20, 2022

Agnieszka Holland in conversation with Stanley Bill

This week, in a special episode, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks to internationally-acclaimed film director and screenw...

45:03Feb 17, 2022

"Pegasus raises questions over Polish elections," says head of team that uncovered hack

This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks with John Scott-Railton , senior researcher at Toronto-based Citizen Lab, wh...

36:15Jan 23, 2022

"They'll be sending people to their death": migrant crisis on Poland's border

This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks with Mateusz Wodziński , a Polish citizen reporting on the current migration...

35:11Nov 1, 2021

The latest in Polish politics: What's behind Poland's showdown with the EU?

This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks with journalist and political commentator Marcin Makowski about the latest d...

45:48Oct 22, 2021

Rule of law and the spectre of Polexit

This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks with legal expert Anna Wójcik about Poland’s ongoing conflict with the Europ...

43:43Sep 15, 2021

Stanley Bill on the sources of PiS's success

This week, in a reversal of roles, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill is in the podcast hot seat, giving a range of his own pers...

35:13Jul 5, 2021

"The opposition is in crisis; our hope lies in Trzaskowski": interview with Barbara Nowacka

This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks with Barbara Nowacka , one of the leaders of Poland’s largest opposition gro...

36:07May 28, 2021

A Brief History of Poland, part 6: the fall of the Commonwealth

In the sixth part of our Brief History of Poland series, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill looks at the eighteenth-century decl...

40:23Apr 30, 2021

A Brief History of Poland, part 5: conflict in the seventeenth century

In the fifth part of our Brief History of Poland series, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill looks at the war-torn seventeenth ce...

38:22Mar 31, 2021

"The opposition must be more professional": interview with Leszek Balcerowicz

This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks with Poland’s former finance minister, and key author of post-1989 free mark...

43:01Feb 23, 2021

A Brief History of Poland, part 4: the golden age

In the fourth part of our Brief History of Poland series, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill looks at the "golden age" of Poland...

40:11Jan 12, 2021

Rule of law and the EU budget: interview with Poland's deputy foreign minister

This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks with Poland's deputy foreign minister Paweł Jabłoński about controversi...

44:22Nov 26, 2020

"Revolution against the church": Poland's abortion protests

This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks with women's rights activist and academic Agnieszka Graff about the mas...

37:48Nov 4, 2020

What's behind the conflict inside Poland's government?

This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill is back with Ben Stanley , a political scientist at SWPS University of Social Scie...

44:11Oct 10, 2020

Belarus, Poland, Russia, and the West

This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks to Agnieszka Romaszewska-Guzy , director of Belsat television, a Polish serv...

42:47Sep 6, 2020