373 Isles of Britain; Scottish Secession; Challenges for Working Women in Europe
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2014
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Martin Clunes, star of the Doc Martin TV series, tells us what he discovered while filming a documentary on the far flung outposts and islands that surround Great Britain. Voters in Scotland are considering particular issues as they prepare to vote on whether or not to secede from the United Kingdom. Also, working mothers from Sweden, Slovenia, and France contrast the challenges they face in their countries.
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| 0:00.0 | When actor Martin Kloon sailed to the rugged islands in the middle of the North Sea, |
| 0:05.0 | he came across an impressively hardy group of people. |
| 0:08.0 | They are really woolly, you know, really, it's harsh living out there, and you meet the people and they're tough. You wouldn't want to fight them. |
| 0:15.0 | But a big fight might be brewing all over Scotland. |
| 0:18.0 | Voters get to decide in a few weeks whether or not Scotland becomes independent from the rest of the UK. |
| 0:24.6 | Their national identity is a big part of it. |
| 0:27.0 | Well, I'm British, but it depends when who asks you. |
| 0:30.3 | We always say Scottish first. |
| 0:32.4 | If you travel around Europe, if you say British, they think you're English, |
| 0:36.0 | and nobody seems to like English peoples. |
| 0:38.0 | And we'll learn how the issues women face can really vary all across the European Union. |
| 0:42.0 | Since then, there are no housewives. can really vary all across the European Union. |
| 0:42.6 | Since then there are no housewives in Sweden. |
| 0:46.1 | We don't need to get married. |
| 0:47.5 | Visiting the smallest of the British Isles, debating Scottish independence, |
| 0:51.2 | and how women's issues diverge across the EU. |
| 0:54.6 | That's all in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:00.6 | I find it intriguing to take a look at the politics of people who live outside the United States |
| 1:05.4 | and hear what issues are at stake in their everyday lives. |
| 1:08.8 | Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. |
| 1:10.2 | On today's show, we'll contrast what women who live in France, Scandinavia, and a Slavic country |
| 1:15.7 | like Slovenia have to say about the important issues affecting them. |
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