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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This week, the fight for LGBT rights in Poland. A horrible pattern has been repeating itself in Polish cities: far-right thugs turning up to hurl eggs, bottles, blows and insults at Pride protesters. Our guest, the poet and novelist Jacek Dehnel, is on the line from Warsaw to reflect on what bishops and politicians have to do with it, as well as why there are reasons for hope. Plus, nitrogen and warm-hearted drug smugglers.
You can read Jacek's account of what happened at the Pride march in Białystok here in the Guardian. His novel Lala and the first volume of the murder mystery series co-written with his husband, Mrs Mohr Goes Missing, are now available in English along with his poetry collection Aperture.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the greatest European podcast out there in English that we know of. |
| 0:22.7 | Is that enough caveats? |
| 0:23.8 | Yeah, I think so. |
| 0:24.6 | We can go with that. |
| 0:25.7 | We're not going to get sued by anyone. |
| 0:27.2 | Good. |
| 0:27.5 | It's good to be careful. |
| 0:28.5 | This is Katie in Paris and I'm joined by our very own cross-border worker Dominic Kramer. |
| 0:33.7 | Like, where even are you? |
| 0:34.8 | Why do this track? |
| 0:35.7 | I am now in Strasbourg. I have been crossing many borders this week actually, because I was in Basel for a while. |
| 0:42.3 | And I was fascinated that it turns out Basel airports actually in France. |
| 0:46.5 | Despite the city being in Switzerland. |
| 0:48.6 | Despite the city being in Switzerland. I've been learning so much. |
| 0:51.7 | I went to the European Parliament. |
| 0:53.3 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm in one of the hearts of |
| 0:55.7 | Europe and I thought why not on my free morning go and check out the parliament and it's such a |
| 1:03.6 | dorky place but I had loads of fun and it's free so people should go. What do you mean it's |
| 1:09.7 | talking? I don't know but like every photo i took when |
| 1:13.9 | i was in there i looked like the biggest dork ever and maybe that is just because i am the biggest |
| 1:19.1 | dog ever but there was something about the environment that makes you feel like oh my god i'm a bit |
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