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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

November 6: Watching Over The Night Watch

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.8162 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week, the story of a painting that's been attacked with knives, chopped up, hidden in a cave from Nazis, and has probably had beer spilled on it. It also happens to be one of the world's greatest masterpieces. Our very special guest is Taco Dibbits, director of the Rijksmuseum, here to explain why the Netherlands' national museum is going to be restoring The Night Watch while the whole world watches. And from Rembrandt to race, the playright Marjorie H. Morgan is on the line from Liverpool to talk about the difference between being black in Europe and black in America. The Europeans is supported by Are We Europe, the continent's most beautiful magazine. Type 'europeanspod' for a 15% discount on your copy at www.areweeurope.com. Thanks for listening! 🇪🇺 ❤ Twitter.com/EuropeansPod Instagram.com/europeanspodcast Facebook.com/europeanspodcast europeanspodcast@gmail.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Bonjour Europe. This is Katie in Paris.

0:18.5

Dominic is back in Amsterdam.

0:20.1

Everything is as it should be.

0:21.9

Hooray! Heep-Heep-Houra, as they say in the Netherlands. Do they? Or they say, no, I've got that

0:26.7

wrong. They say heap-a-peep. Hurrah. Anyway, I'm back and I've moved house. Yes. How is it?

0:34.1

It's great, although I've found a few things that aren't ideal for podcasting in this house.

0:39.7

Yeah.

0:40.0

Namely, we live right by the Zaudaeric, which is a beautiful church in Amsterdam.

0:44.2

But it, like, plays not only the bells every 15 minutes, but it plays like a song.

0:49.0

And actually, at about 11 o'clock, which is in five minutes, it plays like a proper, like six minute song, a different song every day on the church bells.

0:59.2

Oh, a different song every day.

1:00.5

Well, I might have made that up, actually.

1:02.1

It might not be a different song every day.

1:03.3

But I think it's a variety of songs.

1:05.1

The last time I was here, I think they were playing All You Need is Love.

1:07.7

No way.

1:08.4

That's awesome.

1:09.3

I really like that. And the other thing that's not ideal is that it's totally open planned.

1:15.1

So whenever my husband's here when we're recording, you'll probably hear him.

1:19.1

Anyway, as I was just explaining to Katie, I'm going to make some changes to the setup of the house simply for the sake of the podcast.

1:27.1

So I'm very dedicated.

1:29.4

Pretty expensive, drastic architectural changes to your flat. I'm really flattered that you would

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