The Chain, part three
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this final installment of European love letters, we're travelling from Hungary to Germany, Germany to Russia, and across the border to Norway. We're celebrating the books that stay with us for a lifetime — and books that seem to have a life of their own. And we're heading to the Arctic with an extremely stubborn grandmother.
The Chain is presented by Mick ter Reehorst and is a collaboration with Are We Europe as part of the Summer of Solidarity, a pop-up collaborative journalism project. Find out more at https://www.summerofsolidarity.eu.
The stories you heard were written by Philip Pollak, Viola Theunissen and Nina Lamparski. Mixing and sound design was by Katz Laszlo, production by Dominic Kraemer, and editing by Katy Lee. Music and sound effects from Blue Dot Sessions and Freesound.org. You also heard the Fourth Movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, and Divertimento from his Suite No.1, Op.43, via Musopen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome back to the Europeans. |
| 0:03.9 | I'm Mictareors, one of the people who bring you Rwe Europe magazine. |
| 0:07.9 | And don't worry, Katie and Dominic will be back soon. |
| 0:11.0 | All tents and rested. |
| 0:13.0 | They better be. |
| 0:14.4 | But here it is, the third and final installment of the chain, |
| 0:17.5 | a podcast series about the things Europeans love about each other's countries |
| 0:20.9 | and cultures. It's a journey that's taken us everywhere, from Romania to Spain to Austria. |
| 0:27.3 | Don't forget to check out the first episodes, by the way. And this time, we're hopping from |
| 0:31.6 | Hungary to Germany to Russia, and then over the border to Norway. But let's start in Budapest. Philip Pollock is 23. |
| 0:40.5 | He just finished university, and, in his words, is looking to see what life has to offer. |
| 0:47.0 | His story is about a German cybersecurity book with a life of its own. |
| 0:53.9 | This is not a story about 420 years misbehaving, |
| 0:57.7 | but it is where it starts. |
| 1:01.6 | It was summer three years ago, |
| 1:04.1 | and we were on a road trip, Daniel, Botton, Marcy and me. |
| 1:08.7 | He made up some hickety-pigotty routes from Hungary, driving through the Czech Republic and Germany, |
| 1:14.3 | the Netherlands and Belgium. |
| 1:17.0 | There were psychedelic adventures in Potsdam. |
| 1:20.5 | We skinny dipped in the canals of Bruges. |
| 1:23.1 | The whole trip was a blast. |
| 1:27.4 | After a while, all good things must come to an end. Our driver's |
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