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The Big Ponder
The Big Ponder
Goethe-Institut

This transatlantic podcast explores abstract concepts and phenomena through personal radio essays. Every other week, one of our producers transforms a broad topic... more

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Episodes

Ball Bearings

Ball bearings — these mechanisms are all around us, inside our wheels and motors. Hidden away, we rarely see them,... more

01 Sep 2022 · 28 minutes
The Typewriter

In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter... more

18 Aug 2022 · 27 minutes
Beer

Long ago, German immigrants brought their brewing traditions to the United States. More recently, brewers from the U.S. have begun... more

04 Aug 2022 · 28 minutes
Traffic

Most city dwellers view traffic as an unavoidable downside of urban life. But according to Susanne Papawassiliu, freeway standstills have... more

21 Jul 2022 · 28 minutes
The Farm

Ira Karp lives on a farm in northern Vermont, surrounded by music, puppets, and a family of incredible storytellers. Over... more

06 Jul 2022 · 27 minutes
Grief

Grief is all around us these days. But what exactly is it? And why is it? During a time of... more

22 Jun 2022 · 28 minutes
Cartoons

Have you ever heard of the cartoonist Oliver Harrington? Probably not, but the artist played an instrumental role in German-American... more

08 Jun 2022 · 29 minutes
Street Names

Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician... more

26 May 2022 · 29 minutes
The Street

As a lifelong photographer and filmmaker, Harald Rumpf has spent decades exploring the cities that his subjects call home. In... more

18 May 2022 · 28 minutes
Hidden History

During World War II, over 400,000 German POWs came to the U.S., where they worked on local farms alongside civilians.... more

27 Apr 2022 · 30 minutes
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Ira Karp lives on a farm in northern Vermont, surrounded by music, puppets, and a family of incredible storytellers. Over his brief... more