Antoni Dudek is simply a well-known historian, who present frequently appears on publicist programs as a political commentator. His Political past of Poland, regularly renewed in fresh editions, is simply a treasury of cognition about who is who in Polish politics after 1989.
Prof. Dudek is besides the author of the YouTube channel The Dudek on History. In subsequent episodes, he talks about crucial and sometimes a small forgotten or overlooked events from fresh history. The oldest events he spoke of were the 1926 May bombing, the 1939 September defeat or the Warsaw Uprising.
Most materials relate to post-war history. So we will find stories about “Polish months” from October ’56 to August ’80, iconic events specified as circular table deliberations or loud scandals specified as the transformative “success” Art-B or the little remembered drinking scandal today.
A fragment of the book by Antoni Dudek The Dudek on History. Birth of the 3rd Polish RepublicAbout Art-B, We late published on Political Criticism. I urge it.
Some episodes are devoted to circumstantial characters (including Mieczysław Rakowski, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Jerzy Urban). prof. Dudek has not told about any female from the latest Polish past yet, but I keep my fingers crossed that 1 day this will happen.
The channel subscribes to 145,000 people, watches much more. Let's face it, an action movie is not. 2 cameras – either Dudek talks to us, or we see him from the side – and that's it. In the background, filled with books, cabinets and a poster with Copernicus. It happens that erstwhile Dudek talks about a character, a image of this individual appears in the corner of the screen. Sometimes we besides watch archival material – long fragments, not cut under Instagram for a fewer seconds.
It is not visual fireworks that delight the audience, but the stories of Antoni Dudek, who brings the latest communicative in a simple and factual way: he summarizes, gives facts and figures, but does not fill them. He's fundamentally creating an accessible car from history.
All right, why am I saying that TVP should buy his show from Antoni Dudek? There are a fewer reasons.
1. That's interesting.
Public tv has peculiar responsibilities: teaching, entertaining, and entertaining, teaching. TVP is not to compete with commercial stations for the presence of celebrities, to put ratings ahead of the mission. Mission and ratings can be tried to connect – and Antoni Dudek is perfect for this.
2. This is history.
Title The Dudek on History is adequate, due to the fact that although any of the events that the prof. tells on his channel, are events that even I remember – and I am 42 years old – it is worth remembering that erstwhile he closers Alexander Kwasniewski's triumph in the 2000 presidential election, he talks about something that happened a 4th century ago.
This is shown perfectly by the election clips that Dudek shows in his program. They look truly old-school today. And although it may seem that we know and remember what it was like with Andrzej Lepper or Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, the confrontation with archival materials can knock us out of this conviction.
3. These are interesting archives.
It is the archive, frequently forgotten or unknown, that is 1 of the top advantages of the program. Election clips, fragments of documentary films, recordings from the Video Studio Gdańsk are a wealth of knowledge, anecdotes. You can see them as comic videos today, due to the fact that as you know, nothing gets as ridiculously old as clothes, hairstyles, mustaches and political ads, but you can besides find pearls in them, like material about snowballing housing in a war state. At the time it was a real problem, due to the fact that as Dudek notes, erstwhile snow was truly specific.
4. It's real.
Channel success The Dudek on History is due to trust in the lead. Antoni Dudek does not hide individual opinions, but the kind in which he presents them is far from contemporary bubble divisions, in which sharing subjective evaluation is frequently more crucial than facts. Against the background of commentary channels in the network, on which different people say what they think about each subject, a prof. from past telling simply about the communicative so that respective dozen, and sometimes respective 100 1000 people want to watch it, is simply a real phenomenon.
If I were a decision-maker on TVP, I wouldn't hesitate to effort and get Dudek's show on the air. The production could most likely be improved then, although it is best not to lose its naturalness – let's give the viewers a fancy studio with a green screen, on which there will be fancy pictures, and let's not invitation the prof. to society reading from the celebrity promoter. It's not a program about how they dance, sing, or fool around, but about how 1 guy is interestingly telling about the latest past of Poland.
