Aizen – Part 4: Do Good & Throw it in the Sea
Kerning Cultures
Kerning Cultures Network
4.9 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
After finally reaching Europe, Aizen was back in jail. He had calculated that the journey from Afghanistan to France would take three months. But more than two years later, he was somewhere completely different. Then, finally, his luck started to turn.
This episode was produced by Al Shaibani and edited by Alex Atack and Dana Ballout, with editorial support from Heba El-Sherif. Fact checking was by Eman Elsherif and Deena Sabry, and sound design was by Monzer El Hachem and Paul Alouf. Artwork by Ahmad Salhab. Our team also includes Zeina Dowidar, Nadeen Shaker and Finbar Anderson.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to be able. |
| 0:03.0 | The world and is predictable they've seen it happen. |
| 0:05.0 | And one story that always kind of captures my imagination. |
| 0:08.0 | It's fair. |
| 0:09.0 | The streets lost culture. |
| 0:12.0 | And you're listening to Kearning Cultures. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Dana Balut, and you're listening to Kernan Cultures. |
| 0:21.7 | This is episode four of our Eisen series. |
| 0:24.6 | So if you haven't listened to our previous episodes, I would go back and do that to make better sense of this one. |
| 0:29.9 | We are again here in the European Parliament, which gives obviously a feeling of importance for this contest. |
| 0:41.3 | Every tree participating in this event has this unique story, |
| 0:46.3 | and it's not only about the trees, it's about stories and the best story will win. |
| 0:51.3 | What you're hearing is the annual European Tree of the Year awards, |
| 0:58.2 | a competition that started more than 10 years ago and is organized by the Czech Republic. |
| 1:03.7 | And if you heard that audio right, every tree participating in this event has a unique story. |
| 1:10.2 | Sixteen countries take part and each one of them puts forward their candidate for tree of the year. |
| 1:15.6 | So it's like Eurovision or The Voice, but for trees. |
| 1:19.6 | And it's pretty serious. Hundreds of thousands of votes come in. |
| 1:22.6 | The winning tree is voted best based on its story, how it weaves in nature and people. Last year, the winning |
| 1:29.3 | tree was an oak from Poland. But I want to tell you actually not about the winning tree, |
| 1:36.7 | but instead about the runner-up. Not even from last year, but from 2016. You'll understand |
| 1:43.1 | more later. It's a tree known as the 1,000-year-old lime, |
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