March 20: Suzy Menkes and the Beer-Brewing Monks

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.8 • 162 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Katy makes no secret of the fact that she records this podcast in her pyjamas, but she may need to up her game after this week's interview with Vogue's legendary international editor, Suzy Menkes, about the European fashion scene and the death of iconic French designer Hubert de Givenchy. In other news, Dominic comes clean about his traumatic experience as a 12-year-old child star in Siberia and gets mixed up (like everyone else this week) between Slovenia and Slovakia. Plus: happy Finns, clowns, and a PR coup for some beer-brewing Belgian monks. Thanks for listening! If one weekly Europe fix isn't enough, check out our Facebook page where we post all kinds of interesting links from around the continent: https://www.facebook.com/europeanspodcast/ See you next week when we'll have our first-ever Michelin-starred chef on the show! Twitter: @EuropeansPod Instagram: @europeanspodcast 🇪🇺 europeanspodcast.com 🇪🇺

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0:00.0	Hello, listeners, and thank you for tuning in to our latest episode of the Europeans podcast.
0:22.4	Arguably the most bizarre podcast out there about Europe due to our ban on any mention of the
0:26.7	Brexit word. Oh, I just said it. Yeah, well done. I mean the B word. We try to shine a light on
0:31.5	stories from across the continent that are overshadowed by Brexit and the larger thanthan-life dramas that are happening the other side of the
0:39.6	Atlantic. I am Dominic Kramer and opera singer in Amsterdam and my co-host is the Paris-based
0:46.8	reporter, Katie Lee, who is on the other end of this Skype line. Hello, Katie. Hello. I'm not
0:52.6	actually in Paris. I'm in London again because I've been here for our friend,
0:55.5	Eleanor's birthday.
0:57.0	Latest in a series of hangovers I've had this week.
0:59.3	I don't really normally go out anymore, Dominic, because I'm old.
1:02.2	This week, I just want to put this out there.
1:03.9	I have had three hangovers, two of them.
1:06.8	It is contributors to this podcast who are to blame for them. And I'm not going to name names, but one of them speaks Luxembourgish, and the other one is an expert on Kosovo.
1:15.6	Make of that what you will.
1:18.2	Katie, this is not something to show off about.
1:20.5	We're setting a bad example.
1:21.8	I mean, you are.
1:22.6	This podcast absolutely does not condone binge drinking.
1:25.8	I've been much more responsible.
1:27.1	I haven't touched a
1:28.0	drop of alcohol because I've been stuck inside theatres. Clowning around. Clowning around quite
1:32.8	literally this week. I'm really sorry for giving you the fright of your life by sending you that
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