Realo Greens and Fake Palm Trees
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
It's a green-themed episode this week: we're talking about why Germany's Greens are the party of the moment, and taking a look at the environmentalists now running the Danish territory of Greenland. Plus, Katy's been chatting to the Polish artist Joanna Rajkowska about why she put a giant palm tree on a Warsaw roundabout.
You can visit the palm tree here and read an interview with Joanna by friend of the show Ania Jakubek here. Joanna's latest work, Rhizopolis, sadly can't be visited right now because of the pandemic, but you can check out this beautiful environmental work on her website.
This week's Isolation Inspiration: Anne+ and The Good Life Elsewhere by Vladimir Lorchenkov.
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Producer: Katz Laszlo
Assistant producers: Andrei Popoviciu and Priyanka Shankar
Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So Katie, in my new flat, in my new flat, there are no pesky church bells to interrupt our recording, but there is a new nuisance. |
| 0:31.2 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:31.6 | There's a little blackbird that sits right outside our window and sings their! Sings their little heart out all afternoon. |
| 0:39.4 | So it is very sweet, but it is a new challenge for us to contend with whilst making this podcast. |
| 0:45.9 | Although who's going to complain about birdsong in the background? |
| 0:49.1 | I hope our list is like the sound of tweeting. |
| 0:51.2 | Was that a joke about Twitter or you just... |
| 0:53.3 | No. Do you want it to be? |
| 0:54.9 | Maybe. How's your week being, Katie? Oh, you know, I've just been obsessing over all the European |
| 1:01.0 | football drama with the rest of the continent. I haven't. That's a complete lie. But everyone else is |
| 1:06.1 | interested in it. And it's kind of nice because like the continent seems to be united for once in that everybody is really cross about this whole European Super League football kerfuffle. It's all been very controversial. |
| 1:19.7 | Yeah, it sure has. But we decided we were not the right people to talk about it. No, we are not the right people to talk about it. |
| 1:25.4 | And also it's getting enough coverage. So we are talking about other things this week. |
| 1:30.5 | In fact, this week, Katie is taking us to Warsaw to talk about a palm tree. |
| 1:35.2 | And yeah, you're right in thinking that palm trees are not normally found in Poland's, not so tropical climate. |
| 1:41.9 | But this tree is not real. |
| 1:43.4 | It is art and it's got a very interesting story behind it. |
| 1:47.6 | So the artist who started this project, |
| 1:49.6 | Yana Rajakowska, will be here later to explain it. |
| 1:52.4 | But first. |
| 1:56.0 | Who's had a good week? |
| 2:03.5 | It's been a good week for Anna Leina Berbock |
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