The bear, the prince and the streaming giant
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Like everyone else, we Europeans have been watching a LOT of television over the past year. But something rather nice has been happening: we've been watching *each other's* television. Could streaming giants like Netflix be helping develop a shared European culture, as we all sit down to enjoy shows like Lupin and Money Heist? This week we speak to Jérôme Dechesne of European producers' group CEPI about the Europeanisation of binge-watching. We're also talking about the prince who apparently-accidentally shot Romania's largest bear, and the Belgian farmer who may have apparently-accidentally moved the French border.
This episode was produced as part of Sphera, a brand-new collective of independent European media. Find out more at sphera-hub.com.
This week's Isolation Inspiration: Quo Vadis, Aida?, Toksvig's Almanac 2021, and The Economist: How Netflix is creating a common European culture.
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Producer: Katz Laszlo
Assistant producers: Andrei Popoviciu and Priyanka Shankar
Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is a part of Sphira. |
| 0:01.7 | A collective of independent media outlets from across Europe. |
| 0:05.7 | For more information, visit Svira-hub.com. Oh, it's been a busy week, Katie. |
| 0:34.2 | I mean, I don't know about you, but I was busy partying all weekend celebrating Europe Day. |
| 0:39.5 | Her elections in the UK, also very fascinating. |
| 0:43.5 | And then the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, became a grandmother. |
| 0:47.0 | Did you see that? |
| 0:48.2 | Oh, no, I didn't. |
| 0:49.3 | Congratulations, Ursula. |
| 0:50.9 | She does have like a million children, doesn't she? |
| 0:53.4 | So I guess it's not surprising that one of them would eventually have a child of their own. |
| 0:57.0 | Do you think she's going to be able to fit them into her busy schedule? Because like famously, she already like moved into the European Commission building so that she could be closer to work. Like, when's she going to see the baby? |
| 1:07.6 | She's definitely not going to be one of these grandparents that looks after the baby one or two days a week. Unless they move the baby into the European Commission building. |
| 1:16.4 | Maybe it's what she needs, a bit of a kind of reality, bit of baby reality. She can bounce policy |
| 1:22.1 | ideas off it. This sounds great. Anyway, how have you been? I've been all right. Boyfriend of the show, Alex, is now out of hospital, which is very good news. So I'm mostly taking advantage of his recovery by eating the huge amounts of cake that people have given us. It turns out when you go to hospital, people buy you cake. So I've been helping him get through this massive cake backlog, which I think is actually really generous of me. That's really kind of you. You can also send some my way. I really won't mind. |
| 1:48.6 | No. Cake in the post has like become a thing during the pandemic. Yeah. We did get sent two rounds |
| 1:54.3 | of cake in the post. It's amazing. What an innovation. It's great, although I'm always suspicious |
| 1:58.5 | that it's going to be stale by the time it arrives. Best thing to come out of the pandemic. |
| 2:02.0 | Definitely. |
| 2:03.0 | Although another great thing that's happened in the pandemic is that we've all watched loads of television, |
| 2:07.3 | which is why this week we're going to be talking about TV. |
| 2:10.5 | Yay! |
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