The Europeans (podcast)
The Europeans is a weekly independent podcast focusing on the "often overlooked news items affecting Europe".[1] It is produced and presented by Katy Lee, a journalist based in Paris, and Dominic Kraemer, an opera singer based in Amsterdam.[2][3] In May 2018 the podcast was the Dutch national nominee for the European Charlemagne Youth Prize,[4] and in 2019 was a winner of the European Commission's Altiero Spinelli Prize for Outreach, for "works that aimed to enhance young peoples’ understanding of the European Union, with a focus on participation in EU democratic processes."[5] Also in 2019, and in the context of that year's European Parliament elections, the podcast received a grant from the European Cultural Foundation[6] to produce the three-part series Bursting the bubble to "explain how the E.U. actually works without boring you to death."[7]
| The Europeans | |
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| Presentation | |
| Hosted by | Katy Lee & Dominic Kraemer |
| Genre | News magazine |
| Updates | Weekly |
| Length | 30 mins |
| Production | |
| Theme music composed by | Jim Barne |
| No. of episodes | 105 (as of April 2020) |
| Publication | |
| Original release | 28 November 2017 – present |
| Website | europeanspodcast |
Lee and Kraemer, both originally from England, intended for the show "to make Europe cool again"[8] and consequently it "proudly announces itself [as a] Brexit free zone".[9] Alongside other regular segments, each episode features an interview. Past guests include: Igor Levit,[10] Christoph Niemann,[11] Rokhaya Diallo,[12] Emma Holten,[13] Akbar Ahmed,[14][15] Patrick Gathara,[16] Jacek Dehnel,[17] Darach Ó Séaghdha,[18] Actress,[19] and Joris Luyendijk.[20]
"We were both British expats, we had a much closer connection to life on the continent than a lot of Brits living on the island, and we wanted to rectify that. We wanted to make a podcast that was going to treat Europe as something that was really interesting and varied, but that could feel very inaccessible to many people because of the way we speak about Europe."
– Katy Lee, 2019[21]
Episodes
Each regular episode features the segments "good week; bad week", "happy ending" and at least one interview. The list of episodes, publication date, interviewee(s) and description of the interview topic are as follows:
2017
| No. | Title | Guest(s) | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Katy smells the money" | Frank Zeller and Ania Jakubek | 28 November 2017 | |
| German politics and Frida Kahlo in Poland | ||||
| 2 | "C’est too much" | Claire Sergent and A Couple of Men | 5 December 2017 | |
| The French language and gay travel | ||||
| 3 | "National Hallydays" | Anousha Nzume and Ania Jakubek | 12 December 2017 | |
| Zwarte Piet and Polish politics | ||||
| 4 | "O Come All Ye Phosphateful" | Jonah Lamers and Ryan Heath | 19 December 2017 | |
| Trans terminology and "EU-so-white" | ||||
2018
| No. | Title | Guest(s) | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | "The Dumbest Farmer Finds The Biggest Potatoes" | Nina Lamparski and Georgi Gotev | 9 January 2018 | |
| Luxembourgish and the Bulgarian presidency of the Council of the European Union | ||||
| 6 | "Translating Trump, Defending Deneuve" | Franz Kubaczyk, Leonie Wagener and Agnès Poirier | 16 January 2018 | |
| Translating Trump for German TV and #MeToo in France | ||||
| 7 | "Fake snus" | Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck and Christopher Snowdon | 23 January 2018 | |
| News literacy and snus | ||||
| 8 | "Trawlin’, Ballin’, Fallin’" | Matthias Brandstetter and Pavel Klinckhamers | 30 January 2018 | |
| Viennese balls and controversial fishing techniques | ||||
| 9 | "Build your own Europe, baby" | Sarah Fager and Andrea Venzon | 6 February 2018 | |
| IKEA designer and political party Volt Europa | ||||
| 10 | "Mi kidney, su kidney" | Ania Jakubek and Greg Moorlock | 13 February 2018 | |
| Polish Holocaust law and organ donation | ||||
| 11 | "Olympic gold, Dominic is old, Katy has a cold" | Andrew MacDowall and Oona Kauste | 20 February 2018 | |
| Kosovan independence and Winter Olympics | ||||
| 12 | "Making peace with the wolves" | Alexandra Pascalidou and Max Rossberg | 27 February 2018 | |
| Neo-Nazis and wolves in Europe | ||||
| 13 | "Bonus episode: Alexandra Pascalidou" | Alexandra Pascalidou | 1 March 2018 | |
| Extended conversation about Europe, forgiveness and Multiculturalism | ||||
| 14 | "Don't put salt on every snail" | Eckard Helmers and Marko Modiano | 6 March 2018 | |
| Diesel cars and the English language | ||||
| 15 | "The best place for our little sprouts" | Jennifer Pettersson and Asmund Asdal | 16 March 2018 | |
| Raising children and the Global Seed Vault | ||||
| 16 | "Suzy Menkes and the Beer-Brewing Monks" | Suzy Menkes | 20 March 2018 | |
| French designer Hubert de Givenchy | ||||
| 17 | "French Burgers, Danish Pizza" | Christian Puglisi | 27 March 2018 | |
| Scandinavian Pizza | ||||
| 18 | "Trash islands and rainbow homes" | Naomi O'Leary and Daniel Martinović | 3 April 2018 | |
| Plastic and Croatian rainbow families | ||||
| 19 | "Liberté, Egalité, Difficultés" | Rokhaya Diallo | 10 April 2018 | |
| Attitudes towards race in France | ||||
| 20 | "Once Upon A Time In Hungary" | Zselyke Csaky and Mick ter Reehorst | 17 April 2018 | |
| Viktor Orbán and Are We Europe | ||||
| 21 | "Keep your bitcoin close and your botany closer" | Agata Szafraniuk and Oliver Gee | 24 April 2018 | |
| Polish primeval forest and Parisian podcasting | ||||
| 22 | "Sticks and stones and dandruff" | Wenzel Michalski and Andy Buchanan | 1 May 2018 | |
| Anti-semitism in Germany and the European Stacking Championships | ||||
| 23 | "Eurovision. EUROVISION!!!!!" | Dan Gould and Brigitte Vasallo | 8 May 2018 | |
| Eurovision and #MeToo in Spain | ||||
| 24 | "The winner takes it all, the loser takes a selfie" | Farah Abdi and MaJiKer | 15 May 2018 | |
| LGBT refugees in Europe and Eurovision songwriting | ||||
| 25 | "Hello, new listeners!" | – | 19 May 2018 | |
| [Updated trailer] | ||||
| 26 | "A wedding and no funeral" | Marit Higraff and Kieran Hodgson | 22 May 2018 | |
| True crime podcasting and making a comedy show about Britain joining the EU | ||||
| 27 | "Five Stars, Ireland" | Giuseppe Porcaro and Florian Tirnovan | 29 May 2018 | |
| EU Sci-Fi and a European talent show for deaf people | ||||
| 28 | "Changing PMs at 103 BPMs" | Akbar Ahmed | 5 June 2018 | |
| Islam in Europe | ||||
| 29 | "Bonus episode: Akbar Ahmed on Islam in Europe" | Akbar Ahmed | 8 June 2018 | |
| Extended conversation about Islam's role in Europe | ||||
| 30 | "Waxy smiles" | Aljaž Pengov Bitenc | 12 June 2018 | |
| Elections in Slovenia | ||||
| 31 | "HEAT" | Dicle Akar and Patrick Galey | 31 July 2018 | |
| Turkish identity in Germany and extreme weather | ||||
| 32 | "Piss and Populism" | Adrian Murphy and Timo Lochoki | 7 August 2018 | |
| Europeana and populism in Europe | ||||
| 33 | "The traces they leave" | Deborah Cole | 14 August 2018 | |
| Collecting memories of elderly Germans | ||||
| 34 | "The G-Spot of Europe" | Dimi Dimitrov and Agneta Ladek | 21 August 2018 | |
| Regulating the internet in Europe and an eye-catching Vilnius tourism campaign | ||||
| 35 | "Greece and Fabrice" | Nick Malkoutzis and Fabrice Pothier | 28 August 2018 | |
| The situation in Greece and cycling through Europe | ||||
| 36 | "Nation Branding, Robot Dancing" | Charlotte Bostrom | 4 September 2018 | |
| Sweden's national branding | ||||
| 37 | "The Future Library" | Anne Beate Hovind | 11 September 2018 | |
| Burying books in the woods | ||||
| 38 | "Welcome To Europe, Here Are Four Walls" | Alice Pittini | 18 September 2018 | |
| Housing for refugees and asylum seekers | ||||
| 39 | "WEB OF LIES" | Mikey Stothard and Kyrill Hartog | 25 September 2018 | |
| A Spanish plagiarism scandal and Are We Europe | ||||
| 40 | "Wall, Rocket, Bottle, Horse" | Monique van de Abeel and Alexander Hurst | 2 October 2018 | |
| Guide horses and Americans in Europe | ||||
| 41 | "Macedo, Macedon't" | Emil Atanasovski and Kevin Sachs | 9 October 2018 | |
| Renaming Macedonia and Netflix in Europe | ||||
| 42 | "The Unlucky Passport" | Thana Faroq and Bram Hilkens | 16 October 2018 | |
| A photography project about passports and European hip hop | ||||
| 43 | "Big continent, mini episode" | – | 23 October 2018 | |
| Bacteria and cathedral thinking | ||||
| 44 | "Everyone's free to vote (and wear sunscreen)" | Frank Piplat and Sally Eshun | 30 October 2018 | |
| The European Parliament and hate speech in Europe | ||||
| 45 | "Watching Over The Night Watch" | Taco Dibbits and Marjorie H. Morgan | 6 November 2018 | |
| Restoring Rembrandt and being black in Europe | ||||
| 46 | "The black soldier's lament" | Christian Koller | 13 November 2018 | |
| African and Asian soldiers who fought for European powers in World War I | ||||
| 47 | "Why doesn't Europe have a Silicon Valley?" | Sarah Donnolly and Marton Barcza | 20 November 2018 | |
| Opening for Louis CK and tech in Europe | ||||
| 48 | "Picasso, Poland & Pedagogy" | Juliette Perchais | 27 November 2018 | |
| Teaching in tough schools | ||||
| 49 | "Flavia and the Machine (anniversary episode)" | Andrea Chalupa and Flavia Kleiner | 4 December 2018 | |
| A Welsh journalist in Ukraine and fighting rightwing populism in Switzerland | ||||
| 50 | "Freedom" | Paulita Pappel and Marta Pardavi | 11 December 2018 | |
| Feminist porn and defending Hungarian rights | ||||
| 51 | "The Bee Word" | Joris Luyendijk | 18 December 2018 | |
| Europe in 2019 | ||||
2019
| No. | Title | Guest(s) | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | "It's that damn bear again" | Teemu Roos and Ania Jakubek | 22 January 2019 | |
| Training Finland in AI and a Polish wartime bear | ||||
| 53 | "Kraemer vs Kraemer" | Daniel Kraemer | 29 January 2019 | |
| Weirdness of the British parliament | ||||
| 54 | "Stick it to the grown-ups" | Lilly Platt and Laure Brillaud | 5 February 2019 | |
| School striking and Golden visas | ||||
| 55 | "The skies over Skopje" | Aleksandar Dimishkovski | 12 February 2019 | |
| The most polluted city in Europe | ||||
| 56 | "The most isolated place on Earth" | Meganne Christian | 19 February 2019 | |
| French-Italian research base in the Antarctic | ||||
| 57 | "The brands that Karl built" | Fiachra Gibbons | 26 February 2019 | |
| The flaws, quirks and legacy of Karl Lagerfeld | ||||
| 58 | "They / Them / Theirs" | CN Lester and Mick ter Reehorst | 5 March 2019 | |
| Transgender rights in Europe and getting the youth vote out #ProveThemWrong | ||||
| 59 | "A taste of the nuclear apocalypse" | Julie McDowall | 12 March 2019 | |
| How Europe prepared for nuclear war | ||||
| 60 | "MEGALITHS!!!!" | Bettina Schulz Paulsson | 19 March 2019 | |
| Unlocking the mystery of megalithic monuments | ||||
| 61 | "Political Tinder" | Sebastian Horn | 26 March 2019 | |
| A project bringing Europeans from across the political spectrum together | ||||
| 62 | "Nice One, Slovakia" | Mimi Billing | 9 April 2019 | |
| Microchipping humans | ||||
| 63 | "Disinformation Wars" | Jules Darmanin | 16 April 2019 | |
| Continent-wide fact-checking | ||||
| 64 | "Lyra" | Susan McKay | 23 April 2019 | |
| The murder of Lyra McKee | ||||
| 65 | "Happy Birthday Bauhaus!" | Henry Isaacs and Kurt Overbergh | 30 April 2019 | |
| Anniversary of Bauhaus and new sounds in Brussels | ||||
| 66 | "Bananadrama" | Martyn Poliakoff | 7 May 2019 | |
| Turning the periodic table upside down | ||||
| 67 | "Syria, Kosovo, Brussels and the mountain" | AJ Naddaff and Maxime Caligaro | 14 May 2019 | |
| Kosovo repatriating ISIS fighters and a crime novel set in Brussels | ||||
| 68 | "Special episode: Bursting the Bubble, Part 1" | – | 21 May 2019 | |
| Special episode explaining what the European Parliament actually does | ||||
| 69 | "The wars of the future" | Ulrike Franke | 28 May 2019 | |
| Drones and 'killer robots' | ||||
| 70 | "Who won?" | Caroline de Gruyter | 4 June 2019 | |
| Unpicking the results of the European elections | ||||
| 71 | "Europe needs culture" | André Wilkens | 11 June 2019 | |
| Why Europeans need to get better at telling their own story | ||||
| 72 | "Sarajevo calling" | Aleksandar Brezar | 18 June 2019 | |
| Bosnian politics | ||||
| 73 | "Eldorado" | Kai Maurer | 25 June 2019 | |
| The cult European soap opera: Eldorado | ||||
| 74 | "Notes from Black Europe" | Johny Pitts | 2 July 2019 | |
| What does it mean to be black in Europe? | ||||
| 75 | "Brave and competent women" | Benjamin Roll | 9 July 2019 | |
| A growing Czech protest movement | ||||
| 76 | "Morals and the Mediterranean" | Matteo Villa | 16 July 2019 | |
| Italian migration and the laws of the sea | ||||
| 77 | "When politicians talk about love" | Darren Cunningham | 23 July 2019 | |
| Electronic opera about politics and love | ||||
| 78 | "Portugal's revolutionary drug policy" | Andreia Alves | 30 July 2019 | |
| Decriminalisation of drugs in Portugal | ||||
| 79 | "Hiphopo" | Federico Gobbo | 6 August 2019 | |
| The internet and Esperanto | ||||
| 80 | "Back for your Görlitzening pleasure" | Emily Schultheis | 10 September 2019 | |
| Politics and Identity in the East of Germany | ||||
| 81 | "What the hell is the European Way of Life?" | Alberto Alemanno | 17 September 2019 | |
| Looking at the first decisions of Ursula von der Leyen | ||||
| 82 | "The Tourists of Venice" | Elena Riu | 24 September 2019 | |
| Venetian residents organising a fightback against overtourism | ||||
| 83 | "Podchraoladh" | Darach Ó Séaghdha | 1 October 2019 | |
| The Irish language | ||||
| 84 | "Toxic elements" | Jaciek Dehnel | 8 October 2019 | |
| LGBT rights in Poland | ||||
| 85 | "Invisible ink" | Carme Font Paz | 22 October 2019 | |
| Remembering the female writers that Europe forgot | ||||
| 86 | "A Polish teenage diarist" | Ania Jakubek | 29 October 2019 | |
| The extraordinary story of Renia Spiegel | ||||
| 87 | "Loggerheads" | Gabriel Paun | 5 November 2019 | |
| Protecting Romanian forests against logging | ||||
| 88 | "The Other Europeans" | Orlando Figes | 12 November 2019 | |
| A cultural history of 19th Century Europe | ||||
| 89 | "Postcards from Europe: Herstedvester" | Lene Bech Sillesen | 19 November 2019 | |
| Special episode exploring a Greenlandic inmates in a Danish maximum-security prison | ||||
| 90 | "Europe's colonial past and present" | Elliot Ross | 26 November 2019 | |
| How the colonial past of Europe continues to affect the present | ||||
| 91 | "President of the European what now?" | Tom Moylan | 3 December 2019 | |
| Special episode explaining the European Commission | ||||
| 92 | "What's going on in Malta?" | Ranier Fsadni | 10 December 2019 | |
| Investigating the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia | ||||
| 93 | "A bar in Budapest" | Gyuri Bihari | 17 December 2019 | |
| A bar at the centre of the fightback against Hungary's government | ||||
2020
| No. | Title | Guest(s) | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94 | "A fisherman goes to Brussels" | Katz Laszlo | 8 January 2020 | |
| Special episode telling the story of a Catalan fisherman influencing European policy | ||||
| 95 | "Why are monarchies still a thing in Europe?" | Bob Morris | 15 January 2020 | |
| European monarchies | ||||
| 96 | "Fanya and the Forest" | Fanya Brancovskaja | 22 January 2020 | |
| a 97-year-old holocaust survivor living in Vilnius | ||||
| 97 | "How the hell do you make an EU law?" | Katz Laszlo | 5 February 2020 | |
| Explaining how the E.U. Single-Use Plastics directive was passed. | ||||
| 98 | "What just happened in Ireland?" | Naomi O'Leary | 12 February 2020 | |
| Irish Election Results | ||||
| 99 | "Eurafrica" | Patrick Gathara | 19 February 2020 | |
| Eurafrica: a forgotten post-war project | ||||
| 100 | "Why is Greece's refugee policy such a mess?" | Apostolis Fotiadis | 26 February 2020 | |
| Migration researcher explains what is going wrong in Greece | ||||
| 101 | "The God Lobby" | Quentin Aries | 4 March 2020 | |
| Religious lobbying in Europe | ||||
| 102 | "Long Distance" | Saara Turunen | 11 March 2020 | |
| Cross-cultural relationships | ||||
| 103 | "Consent" | Emma Holten | 18 March 2020 | |
| Revenge porn | ||||
| 104 | "Lakes and dogs" | Kapka Kassabova and Katz Laszlo | 25 March 2020 | |
| Inner and outer geographies of the Balkans | ||||
| 105 | "Absolutely marble-lous" | Dion Bakker and Meganne Christian | 1 April 2020 | |
| Jelle's Marble Runs and isolation tips | ||||
| 106 | "Poll-Land" | Ania Jakubek | 15 April 2020 | |
| Politics of Poland | ||||
| 107 | "Normal and Boring" | Christoph Niemann | 22 April 2020 | |
| visual essay about Estonia | ||||
| 108 | "The Other C-Words" | Esther Goodwin-Brown | 29 April 2020 | |
| the Circle Economy | ||||
| 109 | "Quarantainment" | Noé Debré | 6 May 2020 | |
| European Parliament | ||||
| 110 | "What is Russia doing at the bottom of the sea?" | Thomas Nilsen | 13 May 2020 | |
| Russian submarine Losharik | ||||
| 111 | "Wikipedia's Missing Women" | Rebecca O'Neill | 20 May 2020 | |
| Women in Red | ||||
| 112 | "Guide to a Non-Existent Country" | Giovanni Vale | 27 May 2020 | |
| Guidebooks about countries that no longer exist | ||||
| 113 | "The Great Pull of China" | Tom Wan | 3 June 2020 | |
| Europe's relationship with China | ||||
| 114 | "Why the Black Lives Matter protests are different in Europe" | Quinsy Gario | 10 June 2020 | |
| Black Lives Matter | ||||
| 115 | "Recipes for rebellion" | Albena Shkodrova | 17 June 2020 | |
| A history of food and cooking in the People's Republic of Bulgaria | ||||
| 116 | "Love, bees and brain surgery" | Rafael Loss | 24 June 2020 | |
| European Solidarity Tracker from European Council on Foreign Relations | ||||
| 117 | "The Political Pianist" | Igor Levit | 1 July 2020 | |
| Racism in Germany and performing during the coronavirus pandemic | ||||
| 118 | "George Soros, Explained" | Emily Tamkin | 8 July 2020 | |
| George Soros | ||||
| 119 | "The Summer of Solidarity" | Natalie Nougayrède | 8 March 2020 | |
| Europe's media landscape | ||||
| 120 | "The Chain, part one" | Andreea Sirbu, Thomas van Neerbos, and Veronica Tosetti | 6 August 2020 | |
| What Europeans love about each other's countries | ||||
| 121 | "The Chain, part two" | Julie Lindahl, Sedera Ranaivoarinosy, and Marta Santiváñez | 14 August 2020 | |
| What Europeans love about each other's countries | ||||
| 122 | "The Chain, part three" | Philip Pollak, Viola Theunissen, and Nina Lamparski | 19 August 2020 | |
| What Europeans love about each other's countries | ||||
| 123 | "Italy's past, Europe's future" | Francesca Melandri | 9 September 2020 | |
| Europe and Italy | ||||
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