George Soros, Explained
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Why has George Soros inspired conspiracy theories involving everything from the Holocaust to Beyoncé? This week we're talking to Emily Tamkin, author of 'The Influence of Soros', about why the Hungarian-born billionaire is such a source of fascination and controversy. Also this week: Belgium faces its past; Latvia faces Russian 'propaganda' efforts; and Parisian jazz goes solo.
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Emily's book is out now: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062972637/the-influence-of-soros/
'Russia's RT Network: Is It More BBC or KGB?' - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/world/europe/russias-rt-network-is-it-more-bbc-or-kgb.html
'RT, Sputnik and Russia's New Theory of War' - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/magazine/rt-sputnik-and-russias-new-theory-of-war.html
Malin Broman x 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWwLSsfdmNk
Floor Is Lava https://www.netflix.com/title/81006858
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| 0:00.0 | Now something very big is happening today, isn't it, Dominic? |
| 0:18.5 | Yes, sorry. Sounds a bit pathetic, but I'm going on a train today for the first time in about |
| 0:24.2 | four months. And I know some of you have probably been having to go to your very important |
| 0:28.3 | and life-saving jobs by train every day for the last four months, but I don't have a real job. |
| 0:33.5 | And yeah, today's the first time I'm taking public transport and that feels quite scary. |
| 0:39.9 | Where are you going? |
| 0:41.0 | I'm going down to Eindhoven. |
| 0:43.0 | Oh, that's nice. You got your sandwiches packed? |
| 0:45.1 | No, I haven't packed anything. |
| 0:46.8 | It's quite weird, you know, thinking about the logistics of doing these things. |
| 0:50.3 | I was very nervous when I got on the Eurostar about whether I'd remembered all the things like my passport and a water bottle. It's logistically quite intimidating getting on a train |
| 0:59.7 | these days. I hadn't even thought about a water bottle. Oh God, I'm so unprepared. |
| 1:04.7 | Graduation is very important. Anyway, it's very exciting. I'm happy for you. Have you recovered |
| 1:08.1 | from your first train journey last week? I have, although |
| 1:11.0 | something I've discovered about being back in France again after three months trapped in England, |
| 1:15.6 | is that my stomach has changed and I've developed an intolerance for sausage. It gave me terrible |
| 1:21.8 | stomach cramps. That's such a French problem. It's an English problem. I'm just worried that my |
| 1:26.4 | stomach has just stopped being French and it's now very English problem. I'm just worried that my stomach has just stopped |
| 1:27.8 | being French and it's now very English and it's going to start pining for like baked beans and |
| 1:33.0 | Marmite. My stomach always pines for baked beans. I think they're absolutely brilliant and I've |
| 1:37.6 | always like insisted that Heinz baked beans is a totally British tradition and recently one of my |
| 1:43.2 | American friends pointed out that actually they're American. |
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