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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Politics, Society & Culture, News

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Europeans, two passionate defences of liberty, the political and the sexual. Renowned Hungarian rights defender Márta Pardavi is on the line from Budapest to talk about what it's like fighting with the increasingly authoritarian government of Viktor Orbán. And Paulita Pappel calls in from Berlin to chat about her work as a feminist pornographer. Plus: France's road rage, Luxembourg's road delight, and the greatest ever reason to uncork a bottle of wine. Follow Márta and Paulita on Twitter: @martapardavi / @paulitapappel Also, listen to Paulita's brilliant podcast if you know what's good for you: https://ersties-podcast.com Thanks for listening. 🇪🇺 ❤ Twitter.com/EuropeansPod Instagram.com/europeanspodcast Facebook.com/europeanspodcast europeanspodcast@gmail.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, Sunshine. Are you calling me Sunshine? Yes. Well, I don't know. I'm just trying to be cheery. I've had a

0:21.2

crappy week. Bad week goes to me this week. I'm sorry to hear that, Katie. I've had a bad hour,

0:26.3

also not related to sunshine, because I just got more wet on my bike than I thought was humanly possible.

0:32.2

Oh no. It was a typical Amsterdam downpour. So that's been my bad day, but I think you've got better reasons

0:41.0

for why you've had a bad week, haven't you? Kind of, yeah. I mean, you've probably seen it on

0:44.4

the news this week, listeners, but it's not been the best week to be a journalist in Paris. Actually,

0:49.2

that's not true. It's been a really interesting week to be a journalist in Paris, but I am very

0:53.5

tired and I had to miss my friend's wedding

0:56.6

yesterday in Paris which wasn't great and yeah i'm just really looking forward to sleeping for the

1:02.5

rest of the week so it's been brilliant i'm hoping very much an episode that's going to cheer me up

1:07.2

yeah i think it will um i wish you were in amazon because you could have come and seen the show that I did that's like really transient meditative. I'm doing a

1:14.7

Gagorean chant techno-opra pagan ritual experience. Okay. And yeah, it's really like spacey and

1:22.9

it would be the perfect way for you to unwind. Oh man. After a week of reporting on the gillet jeal.

1:29.5

Can you give us a bit of a demo of what it's going to sound like?

1:31.7

No.

1:32.1

Oh, there go the bells.

1:33.1

Sorry, just one second.

1:34.5

I can do the techno bit.

1:35.4

The bells want to join in.

1:37.7

You should use them.

1:39.2

Incorporate them.

1:40.1

We should.

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