Not The Apocalypse
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Irish writer Mark O'Connell spent three years meeting people who are preparing for the end of the world. At a time when a lot of us have been gripped by a general sense of doom, we had a weirdly reassuring chat about the apocalypse. Also this week: big developments in Central Europe, bouncy pavements, and a celebration of the theremin.
Mark's book, Notes from an Apocalypse, is out on April 14.
This week's Isolation Inspiration: Cross-border romance (http://tiny.cc/jo5nmz listen from 24:50), Field Recordings (https://fieldrecordings.xyz/) and live jazz from Mariska Martina (http://tiny.cc/xr5nmz).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Katie. Hi. For the third time in like four hours it feels like. Hey. We're seeing an awful lot of each |
| 0:24.0 | other these days, which is nice. I'm very grateful for it. Yeah. So my, whilst we're both somewhat |
| 0:29.7 | under-employed, the podcast has become a really nice weekly thing. I mean, it always was a nice |
| 0:34.5 | weekly thing, of course. But it means we actually, or I personally, actually have time to do all the preparation properly. Which implies that you |
| 0:42.3 | shouldn't be getting anything wrong at the moment, Dominic. And yet... And yet, I have to start |
| 0:47.0 | with a small apology, because it was pointed out by one of our patron supporters, Owen |
| 0:51.9 | Atkinson, who lives on the Isle of Man, that island that |
| 0:54.8 | sits between England and Ireland in the Irish Sea, he pointed out that when I mentioned that Wales |
| 1:00.0 | had the first coastal path that covered the entire sea border of a country, I was actually wrong |
| 1:07.4 | because that opened in 2012 and in 1986, the Isle of Man opened its own coastal path |
| 1:15.1 | which is 102 miles long and whilst Owen gracefully accepted that whether or not the Isle of Man is a |
| 1:23.4 | country is disputed he did point out that the Isle of Man actually has its own flag emoji. |
| 1:30.8 | Which is a wicked flag, by the way. It's so cool, isn't it? And therefore, I'm happy to accept |
| 1:36.8 | Owen's assertion that I was indeed wrong and I gracefully apologise. Well done. Is that graceful enough? |
| 1:44.9 | Very graceful. |
| 1:45.9 | So yeah, you're right. |
| 1:47.1 | I shouldn't have got it wrong. |
| 1:48.0 | But to be fair, Wikipedia also made that mistake. |
| 1:52.1 | Dominic, this podcast does not use Wikipedia as a source. |
| 1:55.2 | We're more proficient than that. |
| 1:56.8 | Some of our patron supporters work for Wikipedia. |
| 1:59.5 | It's actually an amazing resource. |
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