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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

September 4: Nation Branding, Robot Dancing

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Europeans: national branding done right (Sweden) and wrong (Theresa May's robot dancing). Or will the British PM have the last laugh on that one? The jury's still out. Swedish journalist Charlotte Boström is on the line to explain how her country successfully marketed itself as an eco-friendly feminist paradise. And as Dominic packs his bags for two months in Berlin, he and Katy talk clocks, democracy, fine food and Lego. Find us on the interweb, we love hearing from you! Twitter.com/EuropeansPod Instagram.com/europeanspodcast Facebook.com/europeanspodcast europeanspodcast@gmail.com Write us a review! apple.co/2Ez2KN8 Thanks for listening. ❤️🇪🇺 Charlotte's article in The Groene (in Dutch): https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-kunst-om-een-land-te-verkopen

Transcript

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0:00.0

Greetings Europe. We are the Europeans and we're here to insert some more weekly tales from our continent into your ears.

0:24.6

My name is Dominic Kramer and I'm speaking across the interweb to my good friend Katie Lee.

0:29.9

Hi Katie. How are you?

0:31.5

I'm good, thank you. I like that greetings of Europe. You sounded a bit like a robot like Theresa May or something.

0:36.5

Oh, I wish we could just

0:38.3

make this episode all about Theresa May's dancing, her two performances that she's given us this

0:42.8

week. God bless her. What a woman. What a prime minister. Yeah. I was like, oh God, this is going to be

0:47.8

so bad of her ratings. And my husband was like, no, it makes me like her much more because she's

0:52.7

normal and weird.

0:54.8

I kind of fall into that camp too.

0:56.3

I really felt like she represented our entire nation in terms of our dancing skills in that

1:02.0

particular performance, two performances, double whammy of amazing dancing.

1:06.1

For everyone who doesn't like her, it would have already confirmed her opinions, but she'll

1:09.4

have won like 1% of public opinion through this. I think it was genius. You've had a pretty, like, celebrity week,

1:15.6

haven't you? I've had a great week. I interviewed France's, probably France's most famous chef,

1:20.4

Anand Dukas, on a boat on the River Sen, over a glass of champagne. It was pretty rad. He was really nice, actually. I wasn't expecting him to be.

1:28.1

I was expecting him to be a little bit scary. But he was actually pretty nice and extraordinarily

1:33.0

French. We just sat down at this table and he didn't say anything. He just took one look at me

1:39.1

and went, Emmanuel. I imagine I'm saying all of this in French, but I'm going to say in English.

1:44.4

Bring me two glasses of champagne.

1:46.3

And then he just looked at me very intensely and said,

1:49.0

There is nothing a hit more than empty glasses.

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