A war on the edge of Europe
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This week the journalist Arzu Geybulla is here to help us untangle the conflict that has broken out between Armenia and Azerbaijan; if you're confused about Nagorno-Karabakh, this is the podcast for you. We're also discussing Poland's abortion ban, the Pope's big move on same-sex civil unions, and Europe's latest weird art prank.
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Arzu recommends Black Garden by Thomas de Waal, as well as updates from Laurence Broers. You can also follow Arzu on Twitter here.
Katy is watching Barbarians on Netflix. Dominic is watching Season 2 of Killing Eve.
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| 0:00.0 | We're back with another. We're back with another episode of your favourite European podcast. |
| 0:26.7 | Is that a presumptuous thing to say? |
| 0:28.5 | My favourite podcast about Europe. |
| 0:31.0 | Oh no, I was talking to the listener. |
| 0:33.1 | Oh, good. |
| 0:34.1 | It is my favourite podcast about Europe, though. |
| 0:36.1 | Oh, that's really nice. |
| 0:37.2 | I listened to another nice one this week, actually. It's a bit too early Europe though. Oh, that's really nice. I listened to another |
| 0:37.8 | nice one this week actually. It's a bit too early to give them a shout out there. Whatever he was |
| 0:42.7 | about to recommend listeners, don't go and listen to it. Listen to this one. It's true because as |
| 0:47.4 | usual, we're going to be bringing you chatter about various things that have been happening |
| 0:52.1 | across this continent. |
| 0:58.5 | Things that you might have slightly overlooked due to the C-word news and that election that I think might be happening soon on the other side of the Atlantic. |
| 1:02.9 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:03.3 | We'll try even harder than normal, not to mention that. |
| 1:07.5 | This week we're speaking to the journalist Arzu Ghebullah about the war that is currently |
| 1:12.9 | taking place on the edge of Europe in the bordering region of Azerbaijan and Armenia, something |
| 1:18.9 | that we've been wanting to cover since the fighting started in late September, but have only |
| 1:24.2 | just got around to it. Stay tuned for that later on in the show. But before we get |
| 1:28.7 | on to the Syria stuff, how are you doing, Katie? I'm good. Thank you. I've been getting used to life |
| 1:33.9 | under curfew. Main thing I've learned so far, if you are out at a bar or a restaurant at 8.30pm, |
| 1:40.8 | and you need to rush home and get back in time for a curfew, of which there are several in place |
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