Hello Katie in Paris.

Hello, Dominic in Amsterdam.

Listeners, we have a confession to make.

For our inaugural episode, despite the whole point of our podcast being that we are in different

places and that gives us a kind of pan-European appeal, we're actually sitting in the same

room right now.

We're here together in Liverpool.

Yay!

It's really nice here.

It is really nice here.

We've been here for the birthday of a friend last night,

which is something else we have to apologise for

because I think we're both sounding a little horse.

Katie does sound like a little horse,

but I actually only sound a horse because I've got a cold.

Obviously, I was very responsible as an opera singer

and didn't get really drunk last night.

You went home super early.

It's kind of lame.

Thanks.

But in a nice way. Well done. So, Katie, why don't you tell us why we're here? What we wanted to do was have a podcast that talks to people all over Europe about what's been going on there. And in a

kind of soppy way, I guess, kind of helped to bring Europe together a bit more, maybe by doing that.

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