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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Lyra

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.8162 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week a brilliant young journalist was shot dead in Northern Ireland, on the 21st anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement. The senseless death of Lyra McKee is a reminder of a conflict that most in the country have put behind them. Her friend, the writer Susan McKay, is here with a very moving tribute to a remarkable person.

Also this week: a rebellion in London, rising from the ashes in Paris, and the magnificent species that is the European honey bee.

You can follow Susan on Twitter here. Many thanks to BBC Radio Foyle in Derry for recording Susan's tribute for us.

Thanks for listening. If you have a euro or two a month to spare, you can help support the show at patreon.com/europeanspodcast.com.

And if you fancy writing a (flattering) review on Apple Podcasts, you can do so here.

See you next week, Europe.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Listen, I thought we could do something crazy this week and not actually start with the jingle.

0:04.4

What?

0:05.2

Because someone else has done it for us.

0:20.7

That was, of course, the sensational harmonica performance that has taken Europe by storm this week, apparently, maybe.

0:25.7

There was this very sweet moment in the European Parliament this week when former Slovenian Prime Minister, Loisa Pitellae, who is an MEP these days,

0:34.9

finished off a speech by getting his harmonica out of his pocket and treating

0:38.2

everyone to a little performance. Isn't that nice? That is so nice. He said that people were moved to

0:43.1

tears. Yeah, apparently Nina, this is the second week in a row that Nina has got a shout out in the

0:48.4

intro. Congratulations, Nina. But our Luxembourg correspondent, Nina Lamparski, said that all the MEPs

0:52.9

were apparently crying, I think, with emotion.

0:56.2

It's really difficult for me to tell because I absolutely hate harmonicas.

0:59.7

So for me, they're kind of triggering.

1:01.6

Why are you so hateful about harmonicas, Katie?

1:03.9

Because somebody bought a harmonica for the toddlers that live in the flat above us in Paris.

1:08.2

And it's just a really terrible thing to give to a toddler in an

1:13.0

apartment that has really thin floors. That does sound really hard for you. I'm sorry you've had to

1:17.3

deal with that. What's going on in Amsterdam? I don't know. I've been too busy. I don't see any

1:21.5

daylight. Oh, Dominic. I'm working morning, afternoon and night. But hey, it's good to be busy.

1:27.3

Are you like really pale, even though

1:29.5

the whole of continental Europe is just bathed in beautiful sunshine right now? Yeah, actually,

1:33.4

we do have like a half an hour break in which I often step outside and I'm working with

1:38.6

dancers, so they will just take all their clothes off and sunbathe, so. Sounds great. Yeah, it's not so bad.

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