Your Story : Audio Stories of Interesting Lives

Episode 70 : Sophie Pt 2. Gender Change and Transition to a Woman.

23 April 2012

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:03:57 — 0.1KB) Tweet Imagine waking one morning to discover your sex has changed! On the last episode of Your Story we heard from Sophie, about her time in Berlin from before “The Wall” came down in 1989 to today. Today we hear Part 2, a completely different story to [...]

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Episode 69 : Sophie Pt 1. 25 years of a British Ex-Pat in Kreuzberg, Berlin.

22 April 2012

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:06 — 27.9MB) Tweet Berlin change & Another Country Books. From the beginning of her time going back to 1987, Sophie has been part of the culture and changes in Berlin. Back in the day, Berlin was a divided city with “The Wall”, still very much in evidence. Sophie tells us [...]

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Episode 68 : Sebastian. Re-Inventing Insurance using Social Networks

3 March 2012

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:35 — 30.2MB) Tweet Using a 350 year old model to create a 50% discounted Peer to Peer insurance scheme. You hate insurance, I hate insurance, we all hate insurance but we all know, when things go down the toilet, it’s good to have the safety net [...]

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Your Story Addendum Episode 29 : Settling in to Berlin Life.

22 February 2012

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:37 — 7.9MB) Tweet It seems to have taken four weeks for my soul to catch up with me. I’ve been in Berlin now for four weeks meeting people and spending time settling in to how this city operates. I find it takes time to find my [...]

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Episode 67 : Henry. Opportunity for a Young Person in Berlin

21 February 2012

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:30 — 21.9MB) Tweet Grabbing opportunities that can’t be found anywhere else. When you’re young and exploring the world, there are chances for finding yourself wherever you are but the opportunities that present themselves will vary depending on location. Just take a moment to consider how different [...]

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Episode 66 : Rainer. Electronic One Man Band on an Acoustic Guitar

18 February 2012

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:37 — 31.5MB) Tweet One Guitar for a DJ Mix Party At a recent Betahaus event in Berlin, the Awesome Foundationawarded 1000€ to innovative musician Robin Sukroso, aka. Rainer, to help further the development of his one man band guitar modification. Taking the idea of percussive and traditional [...]

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Berlin’s Heyday of Anything Goes

16 February 2012

Tweet Could Berlin return to these times 100 years later? As a walk around the streets of Berlin and talk to people I realise that there are aspects of the culture that reminds me of Berlin’s most avant guard times in the 1920′s. In the area where I’m staying I notice some of the relaxed [...]

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Your Story Addendum Ep 28 : Megève. The Heart of the French Alps.

24 January 2012

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:45 — 92.5MB) Tweet Megève’s a stunning place to see Snow and Ice, something I don’t know! I’ve always wondered what it’s like to be in the Alps in winter. The cold, the snow, the strong biting sun but I’ve never had the chance, until now! What [...]

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Your Story Addendum Ep 27 : A New Trip to Europe

17 January 2012

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (9.4MB) Tweet Letting life unfold as it will… What will happen, will happen and we can do nothing about it because we don’t have any control despite the illusion that we do. This, to my understanding is the way of life. We live an illusion that we make [...]