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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

The Bee Word

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Politics, Society & Culture, News

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week, the need for more buzz around Europe: the bee kind, and the excitement kind. Our very special guest to round off the year (and keep Katy company while Dominic was rolling around on the floor) is the Dutch writer Joris Luyendijk, who despite having been named Bad News reporter for De Correspondent has more hope than you might think for this continent as we roll into 2019. Trigger warning: there's a mention or two of the b-word as we talk about why Europe ain't so boring and the mysteries of the British psyche. Plus: Powerfrauen; an all-too-human robot, and the fight to save our pollinators. Thank you so much for listening in 2018! We'll be back in January. In the meantime, we'd love it if you left us a review as a Christmas present (preferably a nice one): apple.co/2Ez2KN8 Bonne année, Frohes neues Jahr, and Feliz Año Nuevo! 🇪🇺 ❤ Twitter.com/EuropeansPod Instagram.com/europeanspodcast Facebook.com/europeanspodcast europeanspodcast@gmail.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi Katie.

0:16.6

Hello, Dom-Dom. How's it going?

0:18.4

I'm fine. I've had a very busy week. I've been mainly rolling around on the floor with a group of eight men in a studio.

0:25.2

I'm getting paid for it.

0:26.5

I feel like this week you've been working more than 24 hours a day, if that's possible.

0:31.0

Yeah, I'm trying to do too many things at once, I think.

0:33.1

But yeah, it's been fun. I'm making theatre.

0:36.7

Why are you rolling around on the floor? Oh, it was just

0:39.1

workshops for a new dance piece I'm doing next year. Yes, I'm becoming a dancer listeners.

0:46.7

And yeah, it turns out it's quite fun. I've been at a wedding this weekend busting out some of my own

0:51.0

moves and I was quite confident in them at the time and now I'm not so

0:56.3

sure that they were the right moves but I did them anyway. You know what I learned this week?

1:01.4

What? Nothing is a wrong move like everything is valid Katie. Yes I was expressing myself.

1:07.1

So good for you. Has everything calmed down a bit in Paris? It has. It has a little bit. Obviously,

1:11.2

it's been quite a difficult week because of the Strasbourg attack, which you'll have all read about.

1:15.8

But I'm actually away. I'm in England this week. I'm having an early Christmas holiday because

1:19.5

I have drawn the short straw and I'm working on Christmas Day, so I will be backing Paris for

1:24.3

Christmas. This week is Family Week and I'm beginning Nottingham for a wedding

1:28.3

over the weekend at which our jingle man, Gem Baum was the best man. So I mentioned that you're

1:33.1

after a new jingle and he said that that would be with you in the new year. So you have that

1:37.2

to look forward to as your Christmas present. Great. How exciting. So you have to work through

1:42.7

Christmas but the podcast isn't working through Christmas,

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