October 16: The Unlucky Passport

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 162 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Whether you're a European passport-holder or not, so much in life is determined by the paper we carry in our pockets. Our guest this week is the Yemeni photographer Thana Faroq, whose brilliant project The Passport explores what it's like to hold a so-called 'unlucky' passport. Her work is on show in New York right now, but she's not allowed to travel from her home in the Netherlands to see it with her own eyes. Also this week, Bram Hilkens is here to delve into the continent's hip-hop scene, Katy and Dominic have been gallivanting in Berlin (stand by on instagram.com/europeanspodcast for romantic photos), and Greece has been lightening the load for its donkeys. The Europeans is supported by Future Europe, a podcast from the European Investment Bank. Check it out here: eib.org/future-Europe And we're supported by Are We Europe! Type 'europeanspod' for a 15% discount on your copy of the continent's most beautiful magazine at www.areweeurope.com Twitter.com/EuropeansPod Instagram.com/europeanspodcast Facebook.com/europeanspodcast europeanspodcast@gmail.com Write us a review! apple.co/2Ez2KN8 Thanks for listening.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Europeans.
0:18.4	This is a very, very special episode because it's only the second
0:21.9	episode ever that Katie and I are actually in the same room. In the same room, in the same city,
0:26.8	in beautiful Berlin. It's so exciting. And listen is, we have had a lovely weekend. Berlin is
0:32.1	so beautiful and autumnal with red and golden leaves all over the place and I've been walking around in a day's looking at the trees for two days.
0:40.9	And it was Katie's birthday.
0:42.6	It was.
0:43.0	And for her birthday, I took her to the European Commission offices of Germany.
0:46.3	It's so sweet of you.
0:47.5	We were invited in for a little chat.
0:49.4	And we had a little tour of their offices.
0:52.0	And I don't know if we're supposed to reveal this, but there's a cupboard.
0:55.3	In the European Parliament's German offices, that it just has gadgets on it.
1:01.0	They have a gadget cupboard. It's amazing.
1:03.2	Breaking news. And Katie also came to see my opera. I managed to find her a ticket.
1:08.0	It was really kind of you to give me two hours of terror on my birthday
1:11.4	with you just like staring creepily around being a murderous creepy doctor in your new show,
1:17.8	Usher. I should stress you were really, really amazing. But like it took me a full 24 hours to not
1:23.4	be scared of you anymore. You were terrifying. It's what I do best. It really suits you. Yeah,
1:28.9	apparently it does. But a few people in the audience might have been a bit disappointed that
1:33.0	Ushare or Usher was in fact not the pop star Usher because the show that I'm in has been
1:38.3	wrongly advertised on Viagogo, one of these big ticketing websites, as one of Usher's live
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