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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

A fisherman goes to Brussels

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week, a story that puts the romance back into European policy negotiations. What does a ninth-generation Catalan fisherman have to do with a law that affects an entire continent? Quite a lot, it turns out.

This is the third in our series of original reported podcasts, Postcards from Europe, featuring intimate portraits of lives and places across the continent. It was made possible by the European Cultural Foundation, who support initiatives that rethink Europe as an open and democratic space.

This podcast was written, produced and edited by Katz Laszlo. Editing and production assistance from Katy Lee, Dominic Kraemer and Valentina Vivona. Voiceover by Kike Molares. Music by Martí Batalla i Busquets and Blue Dot Sessions. Artwork by La Kingsbeer. With thanks to the Tarridas family, Alfons Garrido and our amazing Patreon supporters.

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0:00.0

Hello Europe. It is 2020. It's a bright new decade, but something's never changed. I am here, as always, with my pal, Dominic Kramer. How are you? And where are you?

0:27.5

I'm fine. I'm in Antwerp. I'm mainly very cold because I'm working in a very, very, very cold old warehouse that's actually colder than outside.

0:38.8

I'm imagining you, like a sort of Victorian cotton mill child working there amongst

0:45.5

loads of looms and stuff. What are you actually doing in this warehouse?

0:48.9

Oh, it's actually an old slaughterhouse.

0:51.9

So no cotton looms, much more gruesome than that.

0:55.7

And yeah, I'm doing a show that's a kind of piece of documentary theatre about the meat industry.

1:04.4

So, yeah, it's kind of gruesome.

1:07.4

Has it made you want to be fully vegetarian in 2020?

1:10.4

Yes, it has. although then the other day when

1:13.9

the lasagna came out and I decided I was feeling really tired. I thought I could justify it

1:20.2

because of my iron levels, which is probably really pathetic of me. But anyway, it's weird because

1:25.9

we're talking between the two of us, Katie,

1:27.6

and there's actually a third person here. Yes, reveal yourself. Katz Laslow. Who are you?

1:33.0

What are you doing here? Hi, Dominic. Hi, Katie. So here we go. I'm finally revealing my voice to the

1:38.9

listeners. Hello listeners. Katz is our producer who has been working with us for a few months on a lot of special

1:45.3

episodes and we finally thought it was time to let our lovely listeners hear her lovely voice.

1:52.4

And people listening to this are probably hearing a British accent from Katz, but actually

1:57.0

you're kind of from all over the place in Europe. I am. This is always the first conversation I have with everyone.

2:04.0

So fitting I'm having it with you too.

2:06.5

I am half English, half Dutch.

2:09.0

And we always went on holiday to the north coast of Spain.

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