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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Poison, puffins and the people’s game

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week, the game that unites this continent. We're talking to Eniola Aluko, former England and Juventus striker, about her experience as a black woman in European football. We're also talking about what it's like to recover from a Russian Novichok poisoning; Europe's latest refugee plan; and clever puffins.

Thanks for listening! If you'd like to help us keep making The Europeans, you can chip in a couple of euros/dollars/pounds a month to our Patreon fund: patreon.com/europeanspodcast.

You can watch Eni speaking at the Forum on European Culture here, and check out her book here.

This week's Isolation Inspiration: Hanna, The Vampire Ship, and the latest issue of Are We Europe.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, Katie, I'm Dominic. This is the Europeans podcast. No, I'll try again.

0:29.0

How long have we been doing this?

0:31.3

Too long, apparently. That was a lovely introduction. I think it's possibly because it's so early.

0:36.6

Again, you need to stop

0:37.9

singing, Dominic. These early recordings that we're having to do to fit around your busy singing

0:42.7

schedule. They're kidding me. Haven't even finished my breakfast. Yeah, I have what we call in the

0:47.1

business another three session day today, which is morning afternoon and evening. And I really

0:54.0

shouldn't complain

0:54.9

because most of my colleagues around the world

0:56.4

have zero employment

0:57.7

and I just happen to be living in a country

0:59.9

where they don't really care about shutting theatres

1:04.2

and concert halls for the sake of COVID.

1:07.2

Yay!

1:08.3

Which is a very mixed blessing right now.

1:12.4

But I am happy, obviously, to be in employment.

1:15.9

Something else that we've got to be happy about is that the jingle you just heard,

1:19.9

our friend Jim, what wrote it, he just beat Robbie Williams to a prize at the stage

1:24.8

Dabre Awards.

1:25.7

Not for writing this jingle, I should add, although it is a very

1:27.9

good jingle. It's for an amazing Christmas musical that they wrote. It's called The Season,

1:32.3

and it's going to be a smash hit. And yeah, we just wanted to wish our heart-fought congratulations to

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