Radio Utopistan is a podcast and community. We believe in constructive storytelling and a more just future.
Our mission
Radio Utopistan is a think-and-do-tank. A toolbox for political hope and civic engagement.
We are still in the beginning. Our aim is to establish a digital media brand and a social enterprise that will solely focus on catalyzing Utopias. Small ones within families or neighborhoods and big ones within our global society. Via our podcast, via constructive stories, workshops and conferences.
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#16 Ronja von Wurmb Seibel on constructive storytelling, the media and Afghanistan
When she had just become a journalist Ronja went to Afghanistan for almost two years. There she did reports about the war, about drug addiction,
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#9 Snorkeling for plastic in Mexico and talking to science in Germany
We know there is way too much plastic in our world. And we produce and use more and more every day. It’s destroying ecosystems in
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#8 Musicians from around the world on their very own Utopias
Happy New Year! What is your Utopia? For the very first episode of the new year we asked musicians from around the world to answer
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#7 Exit Part II: Fabian Wichmann on how to fight right wing extremism and racism
Exit Part I is about stories, Exit Part II about facts and strategies. Fabian Wichmann grew up with Nazis in his schoolyard. Today he is
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#7 Exit Part I: Fabian and Tülüfülügülümülü on Nazis in Germany
Exit Part I is about stories, Exit Part II about facts and strategies. We’ll meet a Nazi-whisperer, an ex-Nazi, and a Nazi-target. Tülüfülügülümülü is a
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#6 Kübra Gümüsay from Germany on language and political discourse
Kübra is a journalist and activist in Hamburg, Germany. She just published her first book: “Language and Being” On the interdependence of language, perception and
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#5 Melinda Janki from Guyana on oil, money and nature
Melinda is a lawyer and environmental activist in Guyana, South America. The poor country wants to get very very rich – with oil. One of
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#4 Udo from Berlin on basic income and homelessness
Udo is a social worker in the streets of Berlin, the capital of one of the richest countries in the world. Nevertheless there are about
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#3 Majd Mashharawi from Gaza on business and politics
Majd is an engineer and founder of two companies in Gaza. A place that is often referred to as the biggest open air prison in
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#2 Grace Kabera from Congo on fear and democracy
Grace is a member of the LUCHA movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is fighting for change. With change she means the end
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With Radio Utopistan I've learned to recognise local altruistic acts and in
return try to help total strangers more, too
I like the way Radio Utopistan tells stories. They are somehow fluffy and
easy going, but also intimate. You feel close to the people and the places
the narrator takes you to.
Radio Utopistan helps me with the “complexities” of the world to unravel
them to not being as complex as I think.
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