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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Submarines and rainbow families

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8274 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week, Katy’s plunging into the depths of the French Submarine Saga and Dominic’s delving into some tentatively good developments for LGBTQ parents in Europe. Plus, the speech we were all waiting for! Or not. One of our favourite journalists within the Brussels bubble, the Spanish reporter Beatriz Ríos, is here to unravel Ursula von der Leyen's State of the European Union for us. We can’t wait to see some of you at our first-ever live show in Amsterdam on Friday! For those of you who can’t join us, don’t fear – a recording will be dropping in your feeds next week. It’ll be a little earlier than usual, so look out for it on Monday or Tuesday. This week's Isolation Inspiration: The Hill Where Lionesses Roar; A Poisoning You can follow Beatriz on Twitter here and read about Italy’s one-euro homes here. This episode was produced as part of Sphera, a collective of independent European media. Find out more at sphera-hub.com. Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few euros / dollars / pounds a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast. You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review. Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Senior producer: Katz Laszlo Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. Find more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family. Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | [email protected]

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0:00.0

This podcast is a part of Sphira.

0:01.8

A collective of independent media outlets from across Europe.

0:05.7

Some more information.

0:06.8

Visit Svira-hub.com. This is the week that we are finally going to do a live show.

0:37.2

I mean, you're doing a live show. I never said I'd

0:39.2

actually show up and help you. You're on your own. What? Joking. Don't do that. Of course I'll be

0:45.9

there. And I am genuinely looking forward to it, more than you, I think, which is weird,

0:50.7

because you're the one who, like, goes on stage as their day job. This is going to be easy for you.

0:55.0

Yeah, but I sing on stage after rehearsing for many, many weeks,

0:57.9

and this is very different, spontaneously talking eloquently in front of people

1:04.0

and hoping that they're going to laugh.

1:05.8

That's quite a different thing.

1:07.4

I mean, I don't hope you're all going to laugh.

1:09.8

We're not a comedy podcast. But I hope you at least enjoy it if you're there.

1:14.1

It's very exciting. We're going to be live on stage at the Toll House Town in Amsterdam at 7pm this Friday.

1:19.9

And I think there's literally one or two tickets left. So if you happen to be...

1:22.9

No, it's sold out.

1:23.8

Oh, it's sold out. Yeah.

1:25.6

Fantastic. Well, there you go then.

1:28.3

No pressure.

1:29.3

Exactly.

1:30.3

Have you decided what you're wearing?

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