A taste of the nuclear apocalypse
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This week The Europeans are heading underground to the nearest bunker. Julie McDowall, Cold War writer and expert on all things atomic, is on the line from Glasgow to talk about how different countries in Europe planned for nuclear war and what it’s like to visit Chernobyl, three decades after the disaster. We also talk about the woman shaking up Estonian politics, questionable ethics in Italian opera, and Slovenian sandwiches.
You can check out Julie’s excellent podcast The Atomic Hobo here and follow her on Twitter here.
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| 0:00.0 | what he said. |
| 0:07.0 | What he said? What did he say? |
| 0:21.6 | That was, I think, I hope, hello and welcome to the Europeans in Estonian. |
| 0:26.6 | I just thought I'd shake things up and open the show in Estonian this week because they've |
| 0:29.6 | had elections there. |
| 0:30.6 | And as Mr. Google Translate said in robotic and possibly quite bad Estonian, this is the Europeans. |
| 0:36.6 | It's your favourite weekly podcast that shows off this continent as being actually kind of |
| 0:40.5 | interesting. |
| 0:41.4 | This is Katie in London town this week and I'm joined as always by Mr. Dominic Kramer in |
| 0:46.5 | Amsterdam. |
| 0:47.2 | What's happening? |
| 0:47.8 | I've been having fun on our Patreon supporters group this week. |
| 0:50.8 | Oh yes. |
| 0:51.5 | Finally we got it up and running. Let's be honest, Dominic, you got it up and running because one of us here is unable to use |
| 0:56.9 | basic technological creations of recent years like Skype and Facebook. |
| 1:02.0 | I don't know how you managed to do it. |
| 1:03.3 | It's magic. |
| 1:04.0 | But now there's people in it. |
| 1:04.9 | We can talk to them. |
| 1:05.6 | It's really cool. |
| 1:06.3 | I love running a podcast with you because it makes me feel really tech savvy even though I've got a really |
| 1:11.0 | basic knowledge. How did you add someone to this call? How are you so clever? Yeah, I don't know, |
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