Listen to stories, delve into curious details: delve like detectives into the thick fabric of history. Imagine that the narrator's voice, light and relaxed, belongs to Walter Benjamin. Only a few are familiar with the dozens of radio programs that Walter Benjamin composed and broadcast between 1927 and 1933 on radio stations in Berlin and Frankfurt. These are fascinating prose pieces, interwoven with irony, subtlety and humor, illuminating minor characters and marginal events. "Radio Benjamin" contains six pieces that were broadcast on his program "The Hour for Youth". The language is fluent, adapted to radio. The characters are esoteric but unforgettable. Walter Benjamin presents in them, as a talented storyteller, his unique way of thinking. So prepare yourself for intriguing stories about disasters, criminals and witches, counterfeiters, Jews, swindlers and dark prisons. And above all, stories about people. “Men never rebuild a destroyed city exactly as it was before; they always want to make some profit from the disaster, and therefore seek to rebuild the old one safer, better, and more beautiful than before.” “Under his gaze and words, everything becomes radioactive.” Theodor Adorno “Benjamin sacrificed himself for revolutionary goals... His work and his life are a challenge to us all.” Terry Eagleton