Andrea
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week, a story about being incredibly sure you’re right about something, and then realising you weren’t. We’re heading to Cyprus for the latest instalment of our award-winning mini-series This Is What A Generation Sounds Like.
This series is a co-production by The Europeans and Are We Europe, made in cooperation with the Allianz Foundation. You can find the other episodes, which take us from Italy to Belarus, here.
Our regular show will be back next week! Thanks as ever to the listeners who support this podcast so that we can keep making it. You can chip in at patreon.com/europeanspodcast.
Thanks for listening.
Producers: Wojciech Oleksiak and Andrea Solomonides
Scoring, sound design and mixing: Wojciech Oleksiak
Editors: Katz Laszlo, Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
Music by Blue Dot Sessions. Theme music by Jim Barne.
With special thanks to Eleni Tzialli and Hilmi Tekoglu.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Katie. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi Katie. |
| 0:24.8 | Happy New Year. |
| 0:26.1 | Happy New Year, Dominic Kramer. |
| 0:27.9 | It's a bright new year. |
| 0:29.6 | And you're back from the mountains finally. |
| 0:31.6 | I am. |
| 0:32.6 | I heard the theme tune calling from across the Dolomites and decided it was time to come down |
| 0:38.4 | to the flatness of the Netherlands and start making this podcast again. |
| 0:42.0 | Hooray. Have you had a nice break? I did have a nice holiday, thank you. I've been doing all |
| 0:46.8 | the normal things, watching those of TV, eating stuff, and I'm now ready, I think, for a new year |
| 0:53.6 | of making some more great podcast with you |
| 0:55.7 | about this weird and wonderful continent of ours. The usual weekly show will be back next week, |
| 1:01.9 | but we're actually kicking off this year with a special episode. It's the latest in our |
| 1:06.8 | award-winning miniseries. This is what a generation sounds like. If you haven't heard one of these episodes before, please do go back and listen because |
| 1:14.1 | they are some of my all-time favorite episodes. But basically, the idea behind this series |
| 1:19.8 | is to hand over the microphone to a young person somewhere in Europe and hear about their |
| 1:24.9 | own lives, in their own words. Episode by episode, we are slowly |
| 1:29.4 | building a kind of audio patchwork of lives of the under 35s in this incredibly diverse continent |
| 1:36.7 | of ours. This latest episode was made by our producer Vojek, and we sent him to Cyprus |
| 1:42.5 | to meet a young woman called Andrea Solomonides. She grew up mostly |
| 1:47.3 | in Limassol, which is on the south coast of Cyprus. It's a really bustling port city. It's got like |
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