FOR REAL is a podcast on human dignity, made by Resonate Productions.

In this episode: not doing an ‘extraordinary’ job - not having opinions - underestimating discrimination - the need to be softer.

Recorded on 10 May 2025 at Theaterfestival Auawirleben at the Dampfzentrale in Bern, Switzerland. 

(01:39) Melissa [°1992 - Ankara, TU]: “You get up one morning, you find a letter in your letterbox, they tell you to get out of the country. And then you have to go to the bar, after your 10 hours working and you have to serve people their afterwork beer with a smile. Then they tell me that I’m not doing an extraordinary job.” 

(07:19) Maria [°1986 - Vladivostok, RU]: “I was about 7 or 8, and I was trying to prove something to my stepfather, and he told me: ‘we cannot have a dialogue, because to have a dialogue, you have to have your opinion, but you don’t have opinions.’”

(12:53) Effy [°2003 - Bern, CH]: “I always have the same reaction: ‘why do you work against discrimination in Switzerland, we don’t have any discrimination here’. It’s just sad and actually quite dangerous.”

(19:31) Nico [°1977 - Bern, CH]: “Maybe we should educate all children the way females have been brought up: to question your knowledge, and to be a bit softer about super-imposing whatever you think.” 

For each episode of FOR REAL, we get together with a group of people in a theater, to look into what it means to matter as a person. All interviews are carried by improvised music, made by George Dumitriu (viola, guitar), Sarah Jeffery (recorders) and Andrea Voets (harp).

Made by Resonate Productions -creating musical journalism-

Music & interviews: Andrea Voets, Sarah Jeffery, George Dumitriu

Sound engineer: Hayden Hook

Funded by: AFK, FPK, BNG, Cultuurfonds, Dioraphte

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