Eldorado
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 25 June 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week, the strange and rather wonderful story of how the BBC tried (and failed, pretty badly) to create a European soap opera back in the 1990s. Former 'Eldorado' star Kai Maurer reflects on how his unlikely role playing a German beach bum kicked off his acting career and how the show was ahead of its time. Plus: a landmark Spanish court ruling and the ugly realities of European consensus politics. Read the article that sparked Katy's El Dorado obsession here. Should we launch a campaign to get the BBC to bring it back? Send us your thoughts: europeanspodcast@gmail.com Twitter Facebook Instagram Thanks to our supremely generous Patreon supporters. You can help us keep the show running by chipping in here. See you next week.
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| 0:00.0 | I just wanted to start this week's episode by giving my heartfelt thanks to the various leaders of |
| 0:21.7 | Europe because if everything had gone according to plan Dominic, you and me would be working frantically |
| 0:26.2 | right now on some special episodes about how the EU works. But because all the leaders failed to |
| 0:32.4 | get their act together this week and decide who should be in charge, we can just put our feet up. |
| 0:36.4 | Welcome to a very relaxed episode |
| 0:38.1 | of the Europeans. We can all just chill for the next half hour. That's true. I hadn't thought of it |
| 0:41.6 | like that. They've given us time. Have you been lobbying for them not to make a decision? |
| 0:46.6 | I just wrote a letter to Brussels saying, please, can you just carry on bickering for the next few months |
| 0:50.5 | while we enjoy this beautiful weather? You may have no idea what we're talking about, but I think Katie, you're going to explain it later in bad week. |
| 0:57.3 | I am. This is just a sneak peek. But how are you? What's been going on Amsterdam? |
| 1:02.4 | What have I been up to this week? Oh, it's one of those embarrassing weeks where I don't really have |
| 1:06.2 | anything to report, but maybe that's refreshing no news is good news i went to the gym three times oh get you that shows |
| 1:12.7 | how much time i had in my hands so are you um swole right now as the kids would say i have no idea what that is |
| 1:19.2 | does that mean swollen yeah but in like a mussely way oh no in just like a hurty way oh that's less |
| 1:25.8 | hot yeah not hot at all, how's your week been? |
| 1:31.8 | Pretty good. I can't remember if I told you this or not, but I accidentally joined a rock band a couple |
| 1:37.0 | of weeks ago. My friend was like, oh, our keyboardist has left the country. Can you play |
| 1:42.1 | Fitt de la Muzik with us? Fet de la Muzique, if you don't know, |
| 1:45.5 | is this really special night here in France every year on the 21st of June where bands just like |
| 1:50.6 | take to the streets and play and everyone comes out and enjoys it, kids, old people. This is this |
| 1:55.6 | really wonderful evening every year. And this year I got to take a part, which was very cool, although we were playing |
| 2:01.4 | in a place called Isi Le Mulinu, which my friend who lives nearby rudely described as the least |
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