Morgan Childs - Czech Republic - Foreign Insiders podcast

<p>Prague, come for the theater, stay for the podcasting. Morgan Childs, co-host and producer of the Foreign Insiders podcast, tells us about getting her start reporting stories on food and “weird” Eastern Europe. She has now found a new professional life as an audio journalist, launching her podcast series on migration in the Czech Republic.</p> <p>Countries featured: USA, Poland, Ukraine, Liberland, Czech Republic</p> <p>Publications featured: Saveur, BBC, GQ, Lucky Peach, Vice</p> <p>Morgan discusses how her theater studies took her to the Czech Republic for the first time (7:17), getting started as a freelancer by telling "weird Czech stories" (13:10), burning out on freelance writing and turning to podcasting (25:10), a story that got away about a made up pan-Slavic language (30:20), her GQ story about a made up country and its unsavory founders (33:29), her podcast Foreign Insiders (44:48) and the lightning round (53:05).</p> <p> </p> <p>Here are links to some of the things we talked about:</p> <p>Foreign Insiders podcast - <a href='https://foreigninsiders.com/'>https://foreigninsiders.com</a></p> <p>Morgan’s story about snail farming - <a href='https://bit.ly/3viXqci'>https://bit.ly/3viXqci</a></p> <p>Her Saveur story on Polish milk bars - <a href='https://bit.ly/30IkJOw'>https://bit.ly/30IkJOw</a></p> <p>Her story about a Ukranian violinist - <a href='http://bbc.in/3bHcitk'>http://bbc.in/3bHcitk</a></p> <p>Her Vice story about a town made of marzipan - <a href='http://bit.ly/3qQKSFO'>http://bit.ly/3qQKSFO</a></p> <p>Her Vice story on stinky cheese - <a href='http://bit.ly/3lpOeyt'>http://bit.ly/3lpOeyt</a></p> <p>Her GQ story about a made up country - <a href='http://bit.ly/3qL3wyP'>http://bit.ly/3qL3wyP</a></p> <p>Radio Prague - <a href='http://bit.ly/2Ng6QnP'>http://bit.ly/2Ng6QnP</a></p> <p>Monocle 24 podcast - <a href='http://bit.ly/3lleWbh'>http://bit.ly/3lleWbh</a></p> <p>Washington Post podcast Canary - <a href='http://wapo.st/3qJZGFW'>http://wapo.st/3qJZGFW</a></p>