March 13: The best place for our little sprouts

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.8 • 162 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week we're imagining a better future for baby Europeans and also what might happen after the nuclear apocalypse. Jennifer Pettersson is Swedish radio maker who's been based in Amsterdam for the last 20 years. She's always loved living in the city — until it came to putting her kids in school there. Dutch kids are famously supposed to be the happiest in the world, but is it really true? Since we're planning for the future we might as look all the way ahead to Doomsday. Katy's been chatting to Asmund Asdal, the coordinator of Norway's Global Seed Vault, which keeps back-ups of the world's grains and seeds for use in case of disaster. Also: good news for young Europeans with wanderlust, bad news for clocks, and some mile-high poetry. Thanks for listening! If you've got a few minutes to spare, we'd love it if you could help us spread the word by leaving us a review on iTunes: https://apple.co/2FtsBva europeanspodcast.com | Twitter: @EuropeansPod | Insta: @europeanspodcast

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0:00.0	Hello Dominic in Amsterdam.
0:18.3	Hello Katie in Paris.
0:19.9	That's a very serious opening.
0:21.4	Made us sound almost like news readers or serious journalists.
0:24.6	That always happens when you open it.
0:26.2	That's because I am a serious journalist.
0:27.9	Yeah, unlike me.
0:29.3	Unlike you.
0:29.7	But you are a serious opera singer.
0:31.4	I really liked that video that you posted on our Facebook page of yourself in action.
0:35.1	Oh, thanks. I really liked the slow-mo shot of your colleague
0:39.2	running across the stage in slow-mo. I thought he literally dreamy. Oh, yeah. I mean, the camera
0:43.2	people were just following him all day and there were like a few times when I thought I'd
0:46.6	think something really good on stage and I was like, for heat's sake, they're not even watching me.
0:51.4	Anyway, it's been touch and go today, hasn't it, about whether this recording
0:55.1	would actually happen because... Oh my goodness. Quite a lot of drama in Amsterdam with the
0:59.9	electricity and at this point of listening, there are still 20,000 houses without any electricity
1:04.8	due to storing, an outage that happened just around the corner. I think there was like a fire and an explosion.
1:13.6	Sorry, I realised I sound really blasé about that. There was just a fire and an explosion.
1:18.8	It's just a small explosion. But should we introduce the podcast? Who we are. Like, we might
1:24.7	have some new listeners. Well, I'm Katie. I am a journalist in Paris.
1:28.6	And I'm Dominic. I'm an opera singer in Amsterdam.
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