A Coffee in the Accursed Mountains

Elizabeth Gowing and Rob Wilton

English Places & Travel Society & Culture

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Episodes 9

Avg. Duration 21m

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Since Oct 2020

Latest Episode Jun 2025

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Semi-Annually

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Episodic

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About This Podcast

Stories of Balkan life and culture from the countries bordered by the Accursed Mountains - Kosovo, Albania and Montenegro

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Recent Episodes

Out from behind the curtain? Magazinović, Zagorka, and the enduring challenge for women journalists in the Balkans

Jun 15, 2025 32m

Croatia’s first female journalist had to work behind a curtain to avoid offending her male colleagues, the start of a 150-year struggle for the region’s women. We explore their realities in a (2024)…

S2E2 Write to protest: Musine Kokalari of Albania

Sep 14, 2023 16m

Musine Kokalari (1917 - 1983) was Albania's first published woman, created a political party, and dared to speak out for pluralism when her country was falling to communism. She spent nearly 40 years…

S2E1 The bandit woman and the businesswomen: Shote Galica of Kosovo

Apr 24, 2023 28m

Shote Galica (1895 - 1927) took up a gun and fought tradition as well as oppression. We hear her story and talk to designer Ilire Lepaja - owner of a Kosovan business whose products celebrate Shote –…

The one with the Ashkali karateist who can

Jan 05, 2022 13m

Sabile Gashi is a many-times medal-winning karateist from Kosovo's Ashkali community. We hear about the inspiration of Kosovo’s Olympian women and Sabile’s motivation in paying forward the…

S1E5 The one with the Kosovan train

Sep 29, 2021 20m

We clank through beautiful countryside and through time on one of Prishtina’s two daily trains: an adventure for Edith Durham 120 years ago, a horror in the 1999 war, and now part of Kosovo’s…

S1E4 The one with the pioneering princess

Jun 27, 2021 21m

Montenegro’s Princess Xenia (1881 – 1960) was a bold and talented photographer and a crucial aide to her father’s efforts to build a new kingdom. On a trip through Cetinje’s mountain landscape, we…

S1E3 The one with Pomegranate and Steel: a taste of Albanian names

Mar 22, 2021 16m

This episode introduces some beautifully-named Albanians narrating the meaning of their names, and offers a glimpse of Communist Albania through its list of approved names. And who is honoured in the…

S1E2 Old-style Kosovo hospitality; new TripAdvisor triumph

Feb 07, 2021 25m

Kosovo's most popular attraction is also one of its oldest. Meet Bekim and hear the story of how his team of young professionals created the unique Ethnological Museum, a cultural treasure trove and…

S1E1 The one with... mountain tea

Oct 11, 2020 15m

Our first Coffee In the Accursed Mountains is not in fact an episode about coffee. From the countries bordering the mountains we take another signature hot drink - mountain tea. Marjoram or sideritis…