Unravelling a Scandal
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The Oscar-nominated Romanian film Collective is enraging and inspiring in equal measure. This week we hear from Răzvan Luțac, one of the investigative journalists who uncovered the vast healthcare scandal at the heart of the film. We're also talking about a fascinating court case brought by young German climate activists, censorship allegations on Italian TV, and a missing finger.
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Producer: Katz Laszlo
Assistant producers: Andrei Popoviciu and Priyanka Shankar
Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Katie. You've had quite a week, haven't you? |
| 0:26.4 | Yeah, it's been a bit of a dramatic week. My boyfriend was involved in a pretty bad bike accident last week, so he's in the hospital. |
| 0:35.2 | And he's doing a lot better, but it's been very scary. And I've spent a lot of time |
| 0:41.0 | this week actually being very grateful that we've had access to such incredible healthcare |
| 0:47.2 | completely for free at the point of use. Like, I don't even want to think about how much this care |
| 0:52.4 | would cost in a country without this kind of healthcare system. |
| 0:56.4 | And all of this care has been provided by amazing doctors and nurses and helpers from all over Europe and indeed beyond, which has been really amazing. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, I just want to say thank you to the staff of the Royal London Hospital |
| 1:11.7 | in East London for their phenomenal work in looking after Annex. I also wanted to say, |
| 1:17.4 | I've always been someone who is very blasé about cycle helmets. I've never worn one. I don't know |
| 1:22.5 | about you. I've always thought about myself as a very confident cyclist, like a very safe cyclist, |
| 1:27.2 | and I |
| 1:27.6 | could never be bothered to carry a helmet around. And now that seems incredibly stupid. Like the |
| 1:33.2 | helmet is an annoying thing until it becomes a potentially life-saving thing. Yeah. I'm sorry you've |
| 1:40.2 | been through this. And I'm glad he's doing okay but yeah helmets it's funny I was thinking about |
| 1:45.6 | this the other day after I heard the news and I was on my bike cycling around thinking about helmets |
| 1:51.9 | being like oh everyone in London needs to wear a helmet and like thinking of calling up my family |
| 1:57.5 | and friends being like remember to wear a helmet and then 20 minutes later at the end of my ride, I was like, oh, I'm on my bike without a helmet. |
| 2:06.9 | Well, nobody in Amsterdam really wears a helmet, do they? Or do they? |
| 2:10.2 | Literally nobody. And it's something I found really difficult when I moved here because you look like, well, or I felt like I'd look like a bit of an |
| 2:19.3 | idiot if I wore a helmet here. And I guess it's because there are no hills and the bikes really |
| 2:24.5 | rule the city here. So at least on the roads I'm driving on, it's very unlikely that I'd get into an |
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