Is Friday the new Saturday?

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

We're back from our summer break with an enticing idea: what would happen if we only worked four days a week? Far from spelling economic disaster, the Portuguese economist Pedro Gomes argues it would boost the economy and our well-being at the same time. We chat to him about his excellent new book, 'Friday Is The New Saturday: How A Four-Day Week Will Save The Economy'. We're also talking about naughty European banks, a lucky Neapolitan scratchcard, and — of course! — the return of ABBA. We're doing our first ever live show at the Podcastfestival in Amsterdam on Friday, September 24! The show starts at 7pm. Get your tickets here. You can check out the EU Tax Observatory's report on banks and tax havens here. This week's Isolation Inspiration: Malta and the El Hiblu 3; Bandigou de Melun. This episode was produced as part of Sphera, a collective of independent European media. Find out more at sphera-hub.com. Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few euros / dollars / pounds a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast. You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review. Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Senior producer: Katz Laszlo Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. Find more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family. Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | [email protected]

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0:00.0	This podcast is a part of Sphira.
0:01.7	A collective of independent media outlets from across Europe.
0:05.7	Some more information.
0:06.8	Visit Svira-hub.com. We're back.
0:35.7	One two, one two. Do we still know how to do this?
0:36.8	I don't think so.
0:37.7	Let's find out. Are you at least nicely rested, Katie, even if we still know how to do this? I don't think so. Let's find out.
0:41.6	Are you at least nicely rested, Katie, even if we've forgotten how to do a podcast?
0:45.4	I am, thank you. Yeah, it's nice to be back after what feels like forever.
0:55.5	And one exciting thing that happened while we were away is that you and I saw each other for the first time in a very long time and we went foraging listeners we had a very wholesome day out in london with our jingle composer jim barn picking wild plums and mushrooms and rocket by the side of
1:01.3	the canal turns out there's loads of free food available in the like parks of london there is and
1:06.1	some of it was tasty and some of it probably hadn't been weed on by dogs. Let's hope. I was a bit
1:12.3	sceptical to be honest of the pickings that we were taking from like little low walls right under
1:18.0	a bridge. I really thought this is just covered in dog urine. It's best not to think about it.
1:23.0	Anyway, dog urine aside, how have you been doing? I'm fine. I'm not really rested because I'm trying to renovate my house at the moment.
1:31.6	And as anyone will know who's tried to do that without any experience like me,
1:36.9	it's quite stressful doing DIY when you really don't know what you're doing.
1:41.4	But I'm happy to be back here.
1:42.9	And we've got some news. We're going to
1:45.1	be recording our first ever live show in front of real living humans. It's slightly terrifying,
1:53.5	slightly exciting and it's taking place in Amsterdam at the podcast festival on Friday the 24th
2:00.4	of September. It will be only the second time I've
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