The Spiral Times: Berlin Reguided with Ryan Balmer | BB

For this month's spiral we're honoured to have as our guest Ryan Balmer of Berlin Reguided, a well-loved Berlin tour guide, content creator and Scottish punk, to dissect the things we think we know about Berlin. With a genius font of knowledge as our chaperone, come cavort in the unknowable swampy strangeness of this place we call home. We'll do some common mythbusting, look at Berlin's relatively recent transition into to being a global tourist destination and what that means for heritage and gentrification, the stories it (and we) tells itself about itself and why, all while casting a critical lens at the work of interpreting history, conflict and its traces on the ground, and hear some wild, hilarious and wonderful stories of encounter direct from the Strasse-Explainer himself. All soundtracked by a gentle mix of selections on the theme of travel, being a stranger, and journeying.