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• In pursuit of Jacob Bronowski

  
  Best known as the presenter of the BBC’s genuinely groundbreaking 1973 documentary series The Ascent of Man (and the best-selling book which accompanied the series), Jacob Bronowski’s central belief was that the pursuit of knowledge, the production of art for art’s sake were what fundamentally made human beings human....

• Jan Karski

  
  ‘Every government and church says, “We tried to help the Jews,” because they are ashamed, they want to keep their reputations....

• John Godson

  
  A Lodz success story can be found in local resident John Godson, Poland’s first black member of Parliament....

• Łódź: The top five likes and dislikes of city residents

  During June 2011 Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper invited 21 journalism students from City University London to visit the country’s largest cities to assess whether they were ready to host the upcoming Euro 2012 football tournament....

• Pola Negri

  
  One Polish name is particularly associated with the advent of film and Hollywood glamour, and that name is Pola Negri....

• Daniel Libeskind

  
  Whilst most of us abandoned our architectural aspirations the moment the Lego set was mangled by the dog Daniel Libeskind has gone on to become one of the world’s most eminent architects and one of Łódź’s proudest exports....

• Parks

  On first sight Lodz looks frighteningly similar to the upturned contents of a rubbish bin. Her aesthetic glories are not obvious, however, they’re certainly there to anyone daring enough to look under her skirt....

• David Lynch

  
  The iconic film director David Lynch, whose surrealist works range from Mulholland Drive to Twin Peaks, has completed work on his latest project, Inland Empire - currently in post-production....

• Roman Polański

  
  Born in Paris, 1933, to Polish parents, Roman Polanski and his family returned to Kraków, Poland two years before the outbreak of war....

• Łódź trivia

  Poland’s full of ‘well I never’ facts, and there’s no better way to impress a hot date than by telling them about Europe’s largest desert (close to Katowice), or the street in Warsaw named after Winnie the Poo....

• Rivers of Łódź

  One question you might ask in a moment of rare contemplation is where the name Łódź came from....

• Rickshaws

  
  A relatively recent phenomena, rickshaws were first introduced to Łódź in 1993 and today you’ll find over a hundred pedaling breathlessly up and down ulica Piotrkowska....

• Fountain of Love

  Standing in the shadow of the Kościuszko statue on pl. Wolnośći (right in front of Café Wiedeńska) is Łódź’s favourite fountain....