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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

The Other C-Words

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week we bring you: coal, chess, and the circular economy. We speak to Esther Goodwin-Brown of Circle Economy about the economic model that's getting environmentalists all hot and bothered. We're also talking about why Europe's fallen out of love with the black stuff and why chess is getting a revamp. Plus, metal detectors — because what would this podcast be without metal detectors?

Thanks for listening! If you like our show, you can help us keep it running by chipping in a couple of dollars a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast.

Isolation Inspiration:
Frankenstein at the National Theatre https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/nt-at-home-frankenstein

Wordsworth 250 https://wordsworth250.org

Parlement https://www.france.tv/series-et-fictions/series-comedies/parlement

That climate litigation thing that Katy forgot about: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/dutch-officials-reveal-measures-to-cut-emissions-after-court-ruling

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0:00.0

I hear you're injured.

0:17.6

Well, I've got something that I'm referring to as Zoom Neck. You know how you can

0:22.4

have like tennis elbow or swimmer's shoulder? I'm imagining I'm not the only one. I mean, my husband's

0:27.7

also got it where you've been on Zoom calls too much and you always sit with your head forward

0:32.3

and your neck's rather tired from it. Oh, like craning a little bit. Yeah, so we've dubbed it Zoom Neck,

0:38.8

and I think it's going to go into the medical textbooks before you know it.

0:42.0

I've got a related injury, which is Jigsaw Puzzler's Back.

0:45.8

Oh, yeah, that's awful.

0:47.0

That's actually one of the reasons why I don't do Jigsaw puzzles.

0:49.5

Some people have suggested I've just got a bad back because I'm living such a sedentary lifestyle at the moment,

0:54.4

but I've always had a sedentary lifestyle and the puzzle is the only thing that's new.

0:58.3

I guess you used to leave the house to go to work.

1:01.1

Not even really, some of the time.

1:04.2

Anyway, how are you, Dominic Kramer?

1:06.2

Yeah.

1:06.5

What's going on?

1:07.1

Otherwise I'm fine.

1:08.4

A bit of a shame about the rain, but everything's going fine. How are you?

1:13.7

Well, thank you. I have been writing a nice pan-European feature about different countries' plans to

1:18.5

reopen the schools, which has been very interesting to look at. Yeah, they're citing this study in

1:23.4

the Netherlands that says that they think kids don't spread the virus between them.

1:28.0

Not as much as we thought, but I mean, sorry, have you ever known a toddler? They're disgusting.

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