Good-Tangue and welcome to the Europeans. I am Dominic Kramer speaking to you from Berlin and on the other end of this magical, invisible, not very well-functioning internet connection is Katie Lee, who's in Rome this week. How are you, Katie?

Well, I was really happy to be here and thinking, oh, I'm in Rome. It's so glamorous and romantic,

except it really isn't very glamorous. First of you, I'm not supposed to be here. My boyfriend's

here in Rome for a conference, so I'm kind of squatting illegally in the room that he's saying in.

And secondly, it's not romantic or glamorous because the Wi-Fi in this flat is, it's kind of

the worst Wi-Fi that I've ever had in

the world. So I'm hunched over in a ball in the hallway hugging the Wi-Fi box and it is

miserable indeed. Yay! Well, I can just about hear you and you only sound a little bit like Darth Vader,

so. Great. We're off to a great start um what's been happening in

berlin oh you know just more rehearsals i actually went to dorset in england last weekend which was

really nice to sing at a site specific arts festival on the coast in boscombe you heard of boscombe i haven't

and i also haven't heard of site specific festivals what does Oh, well, you're very uncultured then.

I'm a job.

It means art that, like, is performed in spaces that aren't conventional theatrical spaces.

So we did a really nice performance with this Dutch art collective that I sometimes work with.

Cool Collective, Wilden.

We did a performance in a little park by the sea about oil and it's like a meditation on oil and the melting

ice caps with a performance lecture and a beautiful art installation. And we had interviews in front of it

with a local oil activist, with a local dairy farmer and a climatologist and it went really well. It was fun.

Cool. Do you know loads of stuff now about global warming? Yeah, I know loads of stuff about

why it's really bad. Yeah, that's sad, isn't it? And but how have you been? Have you been,

are you still like all riled up after seeing Donald Tusk's Instagram account and seeing him eating

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