Feb 6: Build your own Europe, baby

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 162 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Europeans, two interviews about building things from scratch. We speak to in-house IKEA designer Sarah Fager in Älmhult, Sweden, about the philosophy that drove the company’s late founder Ingvar Kamprad to take over the world with his flatpack furniture. And in Milan, Andrea Venzon is on the line to give us the lowdown on the new pan-European political movement he’s just set up, Volt. Plus: gassed monkeys, dabblings in erotica by Jean-Claude Juncker, and a whole lot of oranges. Dominic and Katy are delighted that The Europeans has been listed by the British Podcast Awards in their Podwatch newsletter as one of the top five podcasts that will change your perspective! Join the 40,000 people signed up to their email updates here. In the meantime, a special thanks for helping to spread the word about the podcast. We'd love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes so we can get it plugged into every ear in Europe: https://t.co/M6OuFyn7kk. For more info, v

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains one tiny little word of bad language, which did technically come out of my mouth, but I'm going to blame John Claude Juncker.
0:24.4	Hello Dominic in Amsterdam.
0:26.1	Hello Katie in Paris.
0:27.7	How are you? What's going on?
0:33.2	I'm fine. I'm a bit tired because it's quite early in the morning and I had a show open last night.
0:36.2	It was good because I got rid of my sling yesterday.
0:36.8	Yay.
0:40.3	And that was definitely an advantage because in the dress rehearsal,
0:45.6	I was wearing this really heavy Austrian bondage-like sling.
0:47.5	Oh, I see. Sorry. I thought that was part of your costume.
0:50.5	No, no. This was for my broken shoulder.
0:54.3	The opening scene, we have to all start stripping off because it's like in a brothel and have this like sexy time and orgy. Oh wow. The sling was kind of awkward.
1:02.3	I can imagine that being a bit of a mood killer. I mean in a real life orgy as much as a on stage one.
1:07.7	Yeah. Well, I actually got mixed reviews from people who were in the audience.
1:14.5	A few people who didn't know I'd broken my shoulder came up to me and were like, wow, I love that like bondage thing you were wearing. And others were like, yeah, you did look like this
1:22.0	one-armed man, like crawling around the stage. But now you're completely free to be in an orgy.
1:27.8	Do you end up completely naked in this thing?
1:29.4	No, not completely naked.
1:30.7	Just trousers off and with my little pink wife runs.
1:34.0	Oh, how nice.
1:35.4	Yeah, it's kind of up to you how much do you're clothes to take off.
1:38.2	Only the people who are there as actors, as opposed to the singles,
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