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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

’Twas Christmas Eve in Dublin

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.8162 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

For our last episode of the year, we take you to a supermarket in the Dublin suburbs in 2006. We also discuss a string of mysterious explosions at Polish grocery stores in the Netherlands, doing a deal with Viktor Orbán, and the secret to happiness in Europe.

This week's beautiful story was written by Richy Craven, read by Darach Ó Séaghdha, and produced by Katz Laszlo. If you enjoyed it, please consider donating to Barnardos. You can check out Darach's podcast, Motherfoclóir, here, and listen to the sweet sounds of Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin and Ultan O'Brien here. Other music from Lena Orsa and Timbre at Freesound.

This week's Isolation Inspiration: The Great, Catherine The Great, The Romanovs, Handel's Messiah from VOCES8, To Catch A Thief and ÜberWeihnachten.

Thank you so much for listening to The Europeans in 2020. We've loved making the show. If you'd like to help us keep going in 2021, you can chip in a few euros/dollars/pounds a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, it is good to hear that Christmas jingle again.

0:25.3

I think everyone needs that this week more than others as we slowly go back into lockdown in many parts of Europe.

0:32.3

That's a festive start to the episode, Dominic. It's supposed to be our Christmas episode.

0:36.2

Christmas is difficult this year,

0:37.7

okay? It is difficult. Don't blame me. How are you doing, Katie? I'm good, yeah. I'm getting into

0:42.3

the festive swing of things. Did you know, you can make your own Bayleys, you know, the creamy

0:47.6

Christmasy drink? I know what Bailey's is, but no, I didn't know that you could do that. Yeah. Whiskey and cream and coffee and a bit of melted chocolate.

0:54.7

It's not very good for you.

0:55.6

But it's very delicious.

0:56.7

So we had some of that this week.

0:58.0

Presumably you're not allowed to call it Paley's because that is a brand name.

1:00.9

Yeah, let's call it a creamy, Christmassy drink.

1:04.8

Sounds nice, doesn't it?

1:06.3

How are you?

1:07.2

I'm fine. Let's leave it at that. What are we talking about this week? I don't know if I want to

1:13.2

tell everyone yet what's coming up in the show. All I'm going to say is that it's a very special

1:18.6

Christmassy treat and sometimes when you're waiting for Christmasy treats, it's nice to kind of

1:24.7

be left guessing, isn't it? It is. All I'll say is I promise that we're not talking about neo-Nazis this week.

1:31.0

Yay.

1:31.8

But first, time for a not very Christmassy good week, bad week.

1:40.1

Who has had a good week, Katie?

1:47.1

It's been a good week for compromise.

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