In Episode 15 of Pole-ish, Peter and John kick off with Benny Hill’s grammatically and politically incorrect legacy, Warsaw’s striking new Museum of Modern Art, and a wild-animal challenge featuring bison, boar and beavers (naturally).

Then they’re joined by British journalist and author Jo Harper for one of their most honest and revealing conversations yet.

Jo reflects on arriving in Poland in the 1990s, building a life here through marriage, journalism and fatherhood, and the personal upheavals that shaped his writing. From Polish politics and media narratives to divorce, identity, homesickness and the strange psychology of borders, this is a raw conversation about what it means to belong somewhere, and what happens when that feeling starts to slip away.

Plus: Polish dark humour, bureaucratic frustration, flaki, and why Kazik Staszewski still hits the right note.

A funny, thoughtful, and unexpectedly moving episode about Poland and the stories we tell ourselves about home.

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Jo Harper: https://harpersediting.pl/

Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw: https://artmuseum.pl/

Julie Mehretu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Mehretu

Architect Thomas Phifer: https://www.thomasphifer.com/office/role/director/thomas-phifer

Benny Hill: https://bennyhill.co.uk/

Flaki: https://aniagotuje.pl/przepis/flaki

12 Groszy by Kazik: https://open.spotify.com/track/6wevlxn0kTHe6rievB13VI?si=730695c8e1974ae8

Pole-ish Guest Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/68kYaLG4XYgcjRdSjzzgcW?si=de7065757241400c