Italy’s past, Europe’s future
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
We're back from our summer break and here to bring you all the European Things that have been missing from your life. This week, the Italian novelist Francesca Melandri on what happened when her beautiful Letter From The Future went viral; we also chat about how Italy deals (or doesn't) with the past. Also this week: theatrical freedom in Hungary, extremely slow music, and a fly-swatting disaster.
Francesca is speaking at the Forum on European Culture next week. Get the full programme here: https://cultureforum.eu
Thanks for listening! If you like our show and want to help us keep running, you can donate a couple of euros/dollars a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Don't worry. you have downloaded the right episode. |
| 0:26.2 | This is the Europeans podcast. |
| 0:28.2 | We've just got a new jingle. |
| 0:30.1 | We're fancy now. |
| 0:31.0 | We are fancy now. |
| 0:32.3 | And it's all thanks to our wonderful one-man jingle factory, Jim Barn. |
| 0:36.3 | Thank you, Jim, for giving up a little musical rejig. |
| 0:40.9 | We've been doing this for a while and we thought it was about time we changed some stuff. |
| 0:45.0 | But don't worry, it's not that this podcast is becoming more sophisticated. |
| 0:48.9 | It's still going to be its old ramshack or self. |
| 0:51.4 | It's just got slightly fancy new music. |
| 0:53.3 | We're still here to bring you the stories each week that you might have missed |
| 0:58.4 | or that might have been slightly overshadowed by the C word or the American election, |
| 1:03.4 | which I have to admit, Katie, have fallen off the wagon and I've become totally obsessed again with American politics. |
| 1:09.6 | Oh, Dominic, that's not good. |
| 1:11.2 | It doesn't make me happy. |
| 1:12.6 | And I know it's not good for me, but I just, I have this like secret USA politics Twitter list. |
| 1:20.2 | Is this like, you know how some people keep their pornography in a folder on their computer that's labelled? |
| 1:25.6 | Like insurance documents or something like that? |
| 1:28.7 | Is that your equivalent, your nerdy equivalent of that? |
| 1:31.4 | Yeah, it's a really nerdy equivalent of that. |
| 1:34.1 | So anyway, I'm happy with this podcast is back to keep me on the straight and narrow |
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