Inventing an Alphabet
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week, Eurovision, panthers, and a celebration of Cyrillic writing. Ahead of a Cyrillic national holiday in several Eastern European countries, we chat to typography designers Maria Doreuli and Krista Radoeva about what makes the script so special. We're also talking about the Paris mayor's war on cars, and why Slovenia's populist prime minister is really, really into panthers. Plus, a special edition of Isolation Inspiration for the Eurovision nerds.
You can follow Maria and Krista here and here on Instagram and check out their Cyrillicsy design workshops here on Twitter.
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Producer: Katz Laszlo
Assistant producers: Andrei Popoviciu and Priyanka Shankar
Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina
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| 0:00.0 | Dominic, do you want to hear a really good joke from my two-year-old niece, Sophie? |
| 0:27.6 | Oh, yes, I love two-year-old humour. |
| 0:29.8 | Okay, here it is. |
| 0:30.7 | Look. |
| 0:31.6 | Who's there? |
| 0:32.5 | Europe. |
| 0:33.5 | Europe. |
| 0:34.3 | Europe. |
| 0:34.9 | Who? |
| 0:36.1 | I'm not a poo. I love how she says Europe. Europe, who? I love how she says Europe. |
| 0:41.8 | Europe. |
| 0:42.6 | Europe. |
| 0:43.5 | Thank you very much, Sophie. |
| 0:44.8 | It's good to know that we have yet another comic genius in the family. |
| 0:49.1 | Another comic genius and a lover of Europe by the sounds of things. |
| 0:53.3 | Supposedly, yeah. How are you doing? |
| 0:55.6 | I'm fine. I'm very excited to be getting vaccinated tomorrow. |
| 0:59.5 | Me too. It's wild. And one of our producers is getting vaccinated tomorrow as well. |
| 1:04.6 | It's really weird. It's like they went down the list of like people in their 60s, people in the 50s, |
| 1:09.6 | podcasters. Vaccination Day at the Europeans. How are you feeling about it? I people in the 50s, podcasters. |
| 1:13.3 | Vaccination Day at the Europeans. How are you feeling about it? |
| 1:18.3 | I'm pretty excited about it, although I also feel a bit weird and icky, like being excited about it on a podcast, considering that there are like loads of people around the world |
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