Europe’s colonial past and present
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Europe's museums are facing growing calls to give back treasures stolen during the colonial era. But what about colonial hand-me-downs that can be found in ordinary households? Elliot Ross, who covers Everyday Colonialism for The Correspondent, is here to explain why this ugly part of our past is still very much a part of our present. We're also talking about a scandal that has been rocking Iceland and nuggets of good news for the planet.
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| 0:00.0 | Sorry, everything's falling down. |
| 0:19.2 | Is everything okay there, Katie? |
| 0:21.1 | I built myself a little pillow for it, as always, and it's sort of collapsed. |
| 0:26.4 | That sound here is my bicycle being used to prop everything up. |
| 0:30.0 | Okay, we're good. Hello, Dominic. |
| 0:31.8 | It sounds very precarious. |
| 0:33.4 | Hi, nice to be back. We've got a totally regular episode this week. |
| 0:38.0 | Yay. |
| 0:38.8 | Yeah, although it doesn't feel that regular because Katie and I actually spent some time together this week. |
| 0:44.3 | I know, weird. |
| 0:45.9 | We were in Brussels doing some interviews and sharing a quite bland sandwich. |
| 0:50.2 | And it was actually surprisingly nice seeing you. |
| 0:53.0 | You weren't even that mean to me. |
| 0:54.6 | What do you mean surprisingly nice? I bought you a pan of chocolate. Remember, we're actually friends, Dom. |
| 0:58.0 | I know. I don't know what got into you. I think maybe last week's postcard from Europe lulled you into a place of, I don't know, warm generosity. |
| 1:08.1 | If you haven't listened yet, we're really proud of last week's show. |
| 1:11.0 | Friend of the show, Lena Beck Sillison was reporting from Insider Maximum Security Prison in Denmark. |
| 1:16.4 | And she made this really beautiful and sensitive piece about a big decision that's facing Greenlandic |
| 1:21.8 | prisoners in there. So check it out if you haven't already. But yeah, it's nice to be back. |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah, this week we're going back to our normal format. We'll have a good week, bad week for you, a nice interview and then a happy ending |
| 1:33.7 | to round things off. But who are we speaking to this week? This week we're talking to Dr. |
| 1:37.2 | Elliot Ross. He's an old friend of ours. Is he a doctor? Well, not like a doctor, not like a |
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