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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

The skies over Skopje

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This week, the city where you can taste the air on your tongue. We're going to Skopje with the Macedonian writer Aleksandar Dimishkovski to find out what it's like living in the most polluted city in Europe. On the brighter side, we also have some Swedish bling, a badass Romanian anti-corruption crusader, and some long-forgotten treasures.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Europeans.

0:19.0

It's a lovely sunny day here in Amsterdam and I am speaking to Katie

0:24.0

Lee in London, I think. Yeah, London and it's really sunny here as well. It's so nice. And you had

0:30.1

quite an exciting journey to London, didn't you, I hear? I did. I was just sitting at the Eurostar

0:35.9

terminal tapping away on my laptop, preparing for this

0:38.9

podcast actually. And guess who was standing next to me? It turned out. Oh, I meant to guess.

0:44.8

You already know, though. I know. Oh, well, I'll put you out of your misery, everyone. Oh,

0:50.5

are we allowed to say his name? Yeah, go on. It was a quite famous European known as Nigel Farage, one of the key architects of what we like to call the B word on this podcast.

1:02.9

So yeah, we had a nice little chat and quite a divergence of opinion.

1:07.3

But there you are.

1:08.2

It was relatively civil.

1:10.1

And are you going to play us some of the tape katie

1:12.0

no should i no maybe not maybe we shouldn't give his voice any more air time it gets enough already

1:18.1

i did listen to the tape that katie recorded of him and she did give him a hard time so we should all

1:23.9

feel very proud of her i thought i was quite quite nice. That's nice by my standards.

1:29.0

Well, you at least pissed him off.

1:29.9

He wasn't happy.

1:30.6

That's true.

1:33.5

But you've also just been in London, haven't you?

1:36.4

I was in London last weekend, so we just missed each other, I'm afraid.

1:37.7

I feel like you do this on purpose.

1:38.5

I mean, I do.

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