Podcast: The Final Curtain #3 - WOJCIECH

How Polish opposition activists began transmitting their own pirate radio and 'hacked' communist-run state TV. Part of our mini-series The Final Curtain.
Wojciech Stawiszyński was an opposition activist, who suddenly found himself in charge of running Radio Solidarność, a mobile radio station that would be the voice of the pro-democracy Solidarity movement. Their success depended on a sophisticated game of cat and mouse with the authorities, with each broadcast taking place at a new location.
In the darkest period of martial law, they had to resort to incredibly complicated ways of operating, funding, broadcasting and even communicating with each other.
Did they make it through? Did they manage to outmanoeuvre the communist secret services? What happened when communism was gone? Find out in the latest episode of The Final Curtain.
More about the episode at Culture.pl //
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More episodes of THE FINAL CURTAIN //
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Time stamps //
[01:08] How Wojciech found himself in charge of the outlawed Radio ‘Solidarność’
[03:50] How do you reach listeners when the secret police is on your back?
[05:55] Radio Solidarność programme content
[09:05] Outsmarting the communist regime with technology
[14:35] Hardships and low points
[16:42] How to live a dangerous dual life
[20:36] Adjusting to capitalism after 1989
Episode credits //
Written & produced by Wojciech Oleksiak
Edited by Adam Zulawski
Scoring & sound design by Wojciech Oleksiak
Music by Blue Note Sessions
Hosted by Nitzan Reisner & Adam Zulawski
The Final Curtain is a mini-series from the creators of Stories from the Eastern West, featuring personal accounts from the Eastern Bloc's collapse. It was brought to you by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.