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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

The Northern Ireland Knowledge Gap

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.8162 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Why are so many British people completely clueless when it comes to understanding Northern Ireland, given that it's part of the UK? After days of rioting in Northern Irish towns and cities, we speak to historian Tim Mc Inerney, co-host of the excellent podcast The Irish Passport, about the strange island-of-Ireland-shaped hole in many Brits' understanding of their own history. We're also talking about Czech vaccines, Spanish vultures, and Brigadier Broccoli, the Swiss army cat.

You should all listen to The Irish Passport! Find it in all the usual places, as well as here on their website.

This week's Isolation Inspiration: Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic and "Jemima!" from jingle man Jim Barne and his writing partner Kit Buchan.

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.

Producer: Katz Laszlo

Assistant producers: Andrei Popoviciu and Priyanka Shankar

This podcast is a proud partner of Are We Europe. If you enjoy beautiful, border-breaking journalism, check out their website and buy their latest magazine.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Huge news this week. Huge news this week.

0:24.3

What?

0:24.9

I think I found at this very late stage of the pandemic, a Zoom-based activity that I can

0:31.1

actually really get behind.

0:33.1

So you know our friend Jim Barn, the musical genius who wrote that jingle that you just

0:36.4

heard, his dad is a wine expert.

0:39.8

And this week, he organised a Zoom wine tasting with different wines that you can buy at the supermarket.

0:44.9

Isn't that fun?

0:45.7

Why wasn't I invited?

0:48.0

Awkward.

0:49.9

Sorry, it was elite friends and family only.

0:52.1

But I was trying to remember some of the European wine facts that I learned

0:55.9

because there was a Hungarian wine on the list.

0:58.3

But I can't remember anything because I was drunk.

1:01.2

Okay, it wasn't a very educational wine tasting then.

1:05.5

The one thing I remember is that there's lots of rivalry between Hungarian and Slovakian winemakers.

1:12.7

But I can't remember why because I Alice maybe four glasses in by that point. Hungarians and Slovakians. Write in and let us know.

1:18.1

I wonder if there's a way we could do this with our Patreon supporters.

1:20.8

Hmm.

1:21.8

It'd be difficult to source the same wine all across the world, wouldn't it?

1:25.4

And some people would have to be drunk at like 9 o'clock in the morning because we do have a very nice global audience. Yes, our listeners

1:31.8

are all around the world. Everyone comes here to find out about what's going on in Europe. So,

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