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Mourn't So it's half past the hour here.

And we will start this podcast with a brief tribute to the bells in the background.

Because it's the last time you're ever going to hear them, listeners.

Dominic Kramer, you are moving house away from the church tower that has haunted our recordings for the last, what, a couple of years now.

Yeah, every 15 minutes I have to listen to that monstrosity of a noise.

And yeah, I don't think I'm going to miss them.

Are you moving to a bell-free neighbourhood of Amsterdam?

Yeah, I'm actually moving not so far away, but far enough away that I won't be able to hear them so

prominently. I mean, I really do live underneath the church tower and it is beautiful and I

will miss that. It's looking lovely on

these sunny days. But every 15 minutes, it's like I worked at it's about 5% of the time the bells

are actually going. You would have thought given that two years ago you were already running a

successful podcast that maybe moving into a house next to a big bell tower wasn't the best

plan. I know. I thought about it before we moved here, but it was fine. It's not been a big

problem. It stopped in the night. That's the main thing. Well, goodbye bells. I won't miss you.

And Dominic definitely won't miss you. And neither will our editors, I think, having to cut it out or wait for us to pause recording for two minutes every 15 minutes.

It's the start of a bright new belfry era.

And what is coming up in this bright new belfry era?

Well, this week we're going to be speaking to a bright young person, Sophia Scarlett. She's a pretty extraordinary

young Romanian woman who, while she was still at school, founded Girl Up Romania, the country's

first ever gender equality organization for teenagers. Sophia is now studying at Stanford,

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