NEW SERIES: "Certain Futures" -Confronting aging isn't just policy and percentages - it is also very personal. (Season 5)
Season 1: "How To F#€k Up An Airport" What went wrong at BER? Berlin's unfinished airport has been in construction for over 11 years, cost have blown from €1 to €5.4 billion, and there's no end in sight. It's a story of incompetence, corruption and Berlin's general inability to get its act together. On this series, Radio Spaetkauf explains the BER disaster fail-by-fail.
Season 3: "RSxEAB" Radio Spaetkauf pairs with the Europäische Akademie Berlin to explore a different and complex topic each episode, asking ourselves, our guest experts and our audience to imagine the city the city they want to live in.
Season 2: "Rent Freeze" What would happen if an entire city, with millions of residents stops paying rent increases for five years? Radio Spaetkauf documents the rise and fall of Berlin's rent experiment; the "Mietendeckel".
"The Culture and The Continent" RSxEAB Season 2: Saving Culture Ep. 4
"Saving Culture" is Season 2 of Radio Spaetkauf's Collaboration with the EAB - Europäische Akademie Berlin (https://www.eab-berlin.eu/). In Episode four, "The Culture and The Continent" we explore black culture in Europe. Host Daniel Stern and guests look at the evolving needs and roles of artists, cultural leaders, curators, policymakers and individuals.
GUESTS:
Kate Cheka @katecheka (https://www.instagram.com/katecheka)
Day Eve Komet LinkTree (https://linktr.ee/audioslut)
Eiliyas Black Communion
Additional Links:
Mixtape Menage (https://linktr.ee/mixtapemenage)
The Devil Lives in Berlin (https://hyperallergic.com/the-devil-lives-in-berlin/)
Kate's website (https://katecheka.co.uk)
K-Drama School (https://www.kdramaschool.com)
Notes:
Recorded live at CCB Studios (https://studios.comedycafeberlin.com/).
Thank you to Manuel, Carolin, Kati and the rest if the team at EAB.
Edited and mastered by Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher (https://www.kalebwf.com)
Additional Editing - Daniel Stern
Engineering: PodFest Berlin
Co-Produced by Europäische Akademie Berlin's Europe Behind The Headlines series, with kind support of the Federal Foreign Office and EU (CERV): Link
23 Dec 2025
"What is a Museum? And Why?" RSxEAB Season 2: Saving Culture
"Saving Culture" is Season 2 of Radio Spaetkauf's Collaboration with the EAB - Europäische Akademie Berlin (https://www.eab-berlin.eu/). In Episode three "What is a Museum? And Why?" we explore how cultural institutions and individuals can or should adapt their behaviors and principles. Host Daniel Stern and guests look at the evolving needs and roles of artists, policymakers and audiences.
GUESTS:
Michael Soltau, The Synthesizer Museum Berlin
Dr. Wenke Wegner, wenkewegner.de
Lilja-Ruben Vow, Berlins Weg In Die Moderne
Aram Batholl, arambartholl.com (https://arambartholl.com/)
Additional Links:
Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation (https://www.spsg.de/startseite)
Esperanto Museum (https://www.onb.ac.at/en/museums/esperanto-museum)
Dig Where You Stand (https://www.digwhereyoustand.show)
HKW (https://www.hkw.de/)
Mareice Kaiser (http://www.mareicekaiser.de)
Notes:
Recorded live at CCB Studios (https://studios.comedycafeberlin.com/).
Thank you to Manuel, Carolin, Lucas, Kati and the rest if the team at EAB.
Edited and mastered by Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher (https://www.kalebwf.com)
Event Support - Charlie Pite
Engineering: PodFest Berlin
Co-Produced by Europäische Akademie Berlin's Europe Behind The Headlines series, with kind support of the Federal Foreign Office and EU (CERV): Link
16 Dec 2025
"They're Our Future" | Episode Four
A visit to the emergency room illuminates what resilience means through personal experience.
What happens when a European demographic research project asks a Berlin podcaster from the United States to explore their findings? Find out in episode four of Certain Futures.
The final episode in this series begins with host Daniel Stern visiting the emergency room. He's inspired to reconsider the meaning of resilience. Reflecting on the journey of Certain Futures unveils a few more interesting twists and interesting complexities. Returning to conversations from previous episodes, Dan finds a hopeful theme for looking at today and into our Future.
Episode Four, "They're Our Future" includes new clips from:
Prof. Jakub Bijak
Dr. Miguel Sánchez-Romero
Prof. Anna Rotkirch (https://blogs.helsinki.fi/rotkirch/)
Prof. Arnstein Aassve
Prof. Letizia Mencarini
This limited-series podcast is produced by Radio Spaetkauf in collaboration with the FutuRes Project (https://futu-res.eu/) .
The FutuRes Project brings demographers and economists together with policymakers to advance what we know and how we plan for Europe's ageing society.
You can find all the FutuRes research and other resources for understanding ageing and resilience in Europe on their website: https://futu-res.eu/ (https://futu-res.eu/) or also follow FutuRes on Linkedin (https://linkedin.com/company/futures-of-europe).
Research Links:
Europe's challenges of population ageing: Are migration and automation possible solutions?
Additional Credits and links:
Certain Futures Music by: Partefacts - Lani Bagley, Christa Belle Walley and Craig Schuftan
Certain Futures Artwork by: Andy El Kanani www.andyelkanani.com (https://www.andyelkanani.com)
Host and Producer of Certain Futures: [Daniel Stern](https://www.sterndaniel.com)
Additional Editing by Jeff Emtman jeffemtman.com
Medical Care by Josephs Krankenhaus (https://www.joseph-kliniken.de)
The FutuRes project is funded by the European Union (Grant Agreement # 101094741).
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