Local memory, carried carefully.
The gist
Reportaż Radia Lublin follows people into cemeteries, former arrest sites, workshops, studios, and streets where private memory touches public history. Its stories move slowly, letting witnesses, researchers, artists, and families carry the moral weight.
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About Reportaż Radia Lublin
Reportaż Radia Lublin is radio reportage rooted in Lublin, its nearby villages, and the fragile evidence people keep when official memory fails. It listens before it explains. Episodes begin in rooms, graves, streets, workshops, former camp buildings, church landscapes, and private shelves where documents and objects have been waiting for someone to notice them. A Gestapo arrest site becomes the setting for the memory of Stanisław Kalinowski and wartime responsibility. A grave on Lipowa Street leads toward Janusz Świerzy, an artist, plastic artist, professor of secondary schools, and ethnographer whose interwar world now survives largely through archives. A tree in Kalinowszczyzna opens a conversation about a vanished synagogue, a market, and a neighborhood changed beyond recognition. In Jabłonna, legends about a holy place become an inquiry into folk belief, purity, borders, and the center of the world as imagined by a community. The tone is measured. It has room for grief, but it does not press grief into a neat lesson. One episode follows family memory out to the Kazakh steppe, where earth from the grave of Grigory Aganisyan and his parents becomes a relic carried home. Another looks at the closeness between housing, gardens, and the remains of a camp where people were killed during World War II. The result is unsettling because the geography is ordinary. People live beside places that still ask to be remembered. Art also appears as a form of testimony. In a workshop full of wax heads, drawings, and handmade forms, questions about death, humiliation, migration, fear, love, and the need to leave a mark are allowed to remain open. The series can also follow recovery in the present, as Dawid works with voice, body, music, and a studio microphone after an accident. Reportaż Radia Lublin is not a brisk history program. It is slower, more tactile, and more intimate than that. Its authority comes from accumulated witness, exact locations, and the patience to let unfinished human stories keep their rough edges.
Made for: For listeners drawn to serious documentary storytelling, Polish local history, family memory, wartime traces, art, folklore, and places where the past remains physically close.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart through its fieldwork texture: objects, rooms, graves, streets, and voices are allowed to lead the narrative before any conclusion is offered.
In their own words
Usłyszeć na własne uszy to znaczy doświadczyć osobiście, poznać, poczuć i zrozumieć. Słuchamy więc świata z wielką uwagą i przygotowujemy dla Was opowieści, które dotykają spraw najistotniejszych: miłości, bólu, cierpienia, szczęścia… Zagłębiamy się w meandry przeszłości i śledzimy bieżące wydarzenia, nigdy nie tracąc z oczu losu człowieka. Los człowieka znaczy bowiem więcej niż jakakolwiek decyzja polityczna, ideologia czy religia. Naszym zadaniem jako autorów, jest spotkanie z Innym i takie opowiedzenie jego historii, aby stała się uniwersalna i ważna dla każdego, kto jej wysłucha.
As heard by us
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
Reportaz Radia Lublin turns local documents, memory, art, and village testimony into careful history heard at human scale.
Reportaz Radia Lublin treats History as something found in rooms, papers, workshops, and village houses, where the past still has pressure on it.
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Episodes
- 1
Katarzyna Michalak "Z tego samego pnia"
The episode explores the historical and architectural connections between a synagogue, a Catholic church, and a notable tree in Lublin, guided by researcher Małgorzata Michalska-Nakonieczna.
·29m - 2
Monika Malec "Lubelski Kolberg"
·32m - 3
Mariusz Kamiński "Starta pamięć"
Hidden gemThis Radio Lublin documentary feature follows the opening of a memorial exhibition dedicated to Stanisław Kalinowski, a pre-war Lublin lawyer and civic leader, held at the former Gestapo interrogation building where many of his contemporaries were killed.
Apr 12, 2026·43m·3 clips - 4
Monika Malec "Lubelski Kolberg"
This episode discusses the grave of Janusz Świerzy, an artist and ethnographer, at the cemetery on Lipowa Street in Lublin, including details about its history and the interwar period.
Apr 7, 2026·32m - 5
Katarzyna Michalak "Z tego samego pnia"
This episode explores the historical and architectural connections between a synagogue, a Catholic church, and a significant tree in Lublin's Kalinowszczyzna district, guided by researcher Małgorzata Michalska-Nakonieczna.
Apr 7, 2026·29m - 6
Magda Grydniewska "Krzaczki w gminie Jabłonna"
This episode explores a mysterious holy place in Jabłonna, discussing legends of miracles, healings, and the ascension of Jesus, with insights from folklore and anthropology.
Apr 5, 2026·38m - 7
Katarzyna Michalak "Światło na stepie"
The speaker recounts a personal journey of uncovering family trauma from the Kazakh steppe, inspired by her grandmother's unspoken grief and a desire to preserve their history.
Apr 3, 2026·41m - 8
Katarzyna Michalak "Sąsiedztwo"
Apr 1, 2026·26m - 9
agnieszka czyżewska jacquemet "zostawić ślad"
Hidden gemAgnieszka Czyżewska Jacquemet talks from an underground Paris workshop full of wax heads, cardboard, and thin metal supports while describing how pigment is mixed into wax by hand.
Mar 31, 2026·31m·2 clips - 10
Monika Malec "Jestem Davido"
Hidden gemDawid says he wrote “more than 700 or 800” lines after the accident and stopped being ashamed of his own life.
Mar 30, 2026·34m·2 clips - 11
Mariusz Kamiński "Konspiracja za drutami"
Hidden gemReportaż Radia Lublin follows Majdanek’s underground network through Józef Marszałek, Wanda Szupenko, and documents hidden near Sapieha 3 in Lublin.
Mar 29, 2026·43m·2 clips - 12
agnieszkaczyżewska jacquemet "zamknięty dom"
Hidden gemPolice in Niebisz, in Zamość County, found the remains of 91-year-old Eleonora K.
Mar 26, 2026·30m·2 clips - 13
Remigiusz Chudy "Anioł Stróż"
Mar 24, 2026·26m - 14
Monika Malec „Szkicownik Rywki”
Mar 23, 2026·31m - 15
Magda Grydniewska „Wielki Post na Podlasiu”
Mar 22, 2026·33m - 16
Katarzyna Michalak "Dziewięć liter"
Mar 18, 2026·28m - 17
Mariusz Kamiński "Cena ocalenia"
Mar 15, 2026·40m - 18
Katarzyna Michalak "Złoty chłopak"
Mar 11, 2026·41m - 19
Katarzyna Michalak "Nasza kołysanka"
Mar 10, 2026·30m - 20
Monika Malec "Amatorzy"
Mar 9, 2026·40m - 21
Czesława Borowik "Symfonia dla pani Wachniewskiej"
Mar 8, 2026·35m - 22
Monika Malec "Czachórski"
Mar 2, 2026·43m - 23
Magda Grydniewska "Ciocia Stefa - Stefania Broniewska"
Mar 1, 2026·35m - 24
Katarzyna Michalak "Przyjaciel z wakacji"
This episode explores the friendship between a Polish-Ukrainian couple and a Ukrainian surgeon named Andrii, which began years ago in southern Ukraine near Crimea.
Feb 25, 2026·31m - 25
Ukraina - 4 lata po agresji rosyjskiej
Feb 24, 2026·42m - 26
Magda Grydniewska „Orzem jak możem”
Feb 22, 2026·34m - 27
Viktoryia Dubouskaya "Zanim wyjmiemy zeszyty"
A teacher shares her approach to starting school days with relaxed moments like talking and eating before lessons, and reflects on her own childhood experiences in school.
Feb 18, 2026·30m - 28
Monika Malec "Drzwi do przeszłości"
Feb 16, 2026·36m - 29
Mariusz Kamiński "Wyrzeźbić miastu duszę"
Feb 15, 2026·41m - 30
Mariusz Kamiński „Nasz sąsiad Bosman”
A personal reflection on Mariusz Kamiński's hidden sailor past in Wyskowice, highlighting his modesty, pride, and reluctance to share stories from his military service.
Feb 11, 2026·44m - 31
Monika Malec "Brat Albert"
Feb 9, 2026·36m - 32
Mariusz Kamiński "Powrót do Turkowic"
A personal reflection on returning to Turkowice, a place of childhood memories and emotional significance, shared with a spouse over many years.
Feb 8, 2026·38m