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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week we've got a cultural bonanza for you. We're talking about Poland's Netflix tax and the new drive-in cinema in Vilnius, as well as all the TV and online concerts we've been bingeing on. Plus, a great interview with the French screenwriter Noé Debré about Parlement, the European satire we've been waiting for.

Thanks to all the generous supporters who are helping us keep this podcast running right now. If you have a few dollars to spare a month, you can chip in at patreon.com/europeanspodcast.

Watch Parlement here: https://www.france.tv/series-et-fictions/series-comedies/parlement

Hope@Home: https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/RC-019356/hope-home

Floyd on France: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=floyd+on+france

Fleabag Live: https://www.sohotheatreondemand.com/show/FleabagFourPound

Thanks for listening.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi Katie.

0:17.2

Hello, have you recovered from your biscuit?

0:19.0

Yeah, sorry I hope I won't be like salivating into the microphone too much.

0:23.6

Dropping crumbs onto it. There's a pop shield to protect the microphone from the crumbs. Amazing invention.

0:29.7

That's what it's there for, yeah? That's not what it's there for. And you shouldn't be eating biscuits while recording this. We're more professional than that.

0:35.7

I'm sorry, we just had a meeting and, you know. He got very hungry. Yeah. It happens. How are you, apart from your insatiable addiction

0:43.7

to biscuit? Yeah, I've been consuming a lot of culture this week. So I've got like a long list of

0:48.4

isolation and inspiration at the end of the show. But one thing, I finally watched CISD Act 2, and it's amazing.

0:57.2

Can we just agree that Lauren Hill is the best singer in the world?

1:00.7

I haven't seen this film for a very long time.

1:02.4

This is the one that ends with the massive montage of the high school students singing.

1:06.9

What are they singing?

1:07.7

Joyful Joyful, which is the European anthem.

1:11.5

Oh, yeah.

1:13.0

Which is why I'm talking about it.

1:14.8

Can we have a little clip of it?

1:16.1

Yeah.

1:17.3

Joyful, joyful Lord, we adore me.

1:21.5

God of glory, Lord of love.

1:25.7

Hearts and fall like flower before me. Hail me as some sun. So that is basically a reworking of Beethoven's

1:36.3

which is the European anthem.

1:39.3

I feel like the European Union needs to employ Lauren Hill to actually make the EU seem kind of cool.

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