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
Presentation
Hosted byKaty Lee &
Dominic Kraemer
GenreNews magazine
UpdatesWeekly
Length30 mins
Production
Theme music composed byJim Barne
No. of episodes105 (as of April 2020)
Publication
Original release28 November 2017 – present
Websiteeuropeanspodcast.com

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.TitleGuest(s)Original air date
1"Katy smells the money"Frank Zeller
and Ania Jakubek
28 November 2017 (2017-11-28)
German politics and Frida Kahlo in Poland
2"C’est too much"Claire Sergent
and A Couple of Men
5 December 2017 (2017-12-05)
The French language and gay travel
3"National Hallydays"Anousha Nzume
and Ania Jakubek
12 December 2017 (2017-12-12)
Zwarte Piet and Polish politics
4"O Come All Ye Phosphateful"Jonah Lamers
and Ryan Heath
19 December 2017 (2017-12-19)
Trans terminology and "EU-so-white"

2018

No.TitleGuest(s)Original air date
5"The Dumbest Farmer Finds The Biggest Potatoes"Nina Lamparski
and Georgi Gotev
9 January 2018 (2018-01-09)
Luxembourgish and the Bulgarian presidency of the Council of the European Union
6"Translating Trump, Defending Deneuve"Franz Kubaczyk, Leonie Wagener and Agnès Poirier16 January 2018 (2018-01-16)
Translating Trump for German TV and #MeToo in France
7"Fake snus"Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck and Christopher Snowdon23 January 2018 (2018-01-23)
News literacy and snus
8"Trawlin’, Ballin’, Fallin’"Matthias Brandstetter
and Pavel Klinckhamers
30 January 2018 (2018-01-30)
Viennese balls and controversial fishing techniques
9"Build your own Europe, baby"Sarah Fager
and Andrea Venzon
6 February 2018 (2018-02-06)
IKEA designer and political party Volt Europa
10"Mi kidney, su kidney"Ania Jakubek
and Greg Moorlock
13 February 2018 (2018-02-13)
Polish Holocaust law and organ donation
11"Olympic gold, Dominic is old, Katy has a cold"Andrew MacDowall
and Oona Kauste
20 February 2018 (2018-02-20)
Kosovan independence and Winter Olympics
12"Making peace with the wolves"Alexandra Pascalidou
and Max Rossberg
27 February 2018 (2018-02-27)
Neo-Nazis and wolves in Europe
13"Bonus episode: Alexandra Pascalidou"Alexandra Pascalidou1 March 2018 (2018-03-01)
Extended conversation about Europe, forgiveness and Multiculturalism
14"Don't put salt on every snail"Eckard Helmers
and Marko Modiano
6 March 2018 (2018-03-06)
Diesel cars and the English language
15"The best place for our little sprouts"Jennifer Pettersson
and Asmund Asdal
16 March 2018 (2018-03-16)
Raising children and the Global Seed Vault
16"Suzy Menkes and the Beer-Brewing Monks"Suzy Menkes20 March 2018 (2018-03-20)
French designer Hubert de Givenchy
17"French Burgers, Danish Pizza"Christian Puglisi27 March 2018 (2018-03-27)
Scandinavian Pizza
18"Trash islands and rainbow homes"Naomi O'Leary
and Daniel Martinović
3 April 2018 (2018-04-03)
Plastic and Croatian rainbow families
19"Liberté, Egalité, Difficultés"Rokhaya Diallo10 April 2018 (2018-04-10)
Attitudes towards race in France
20"Once Upon A Time In Hungary"Zselyke Csaky
and Mick ter Reehorst
17 April 2018 (2018-04-17)
Viktor Orbán and Are We Europe
21"Keep your bitcoin close and your botany closer"Agata Szafraniuk
and Oliver Gee
24 April 2018 (2018-04-24)
Polish primeval forest and Parisian podcasting
22"Sticks and stones and dandruff"Wenzel Michalski
and Andy Buchanan
1 May 2018 (2018-05-01)
Anti-semitism in Germany and the European Stacking Championships
23"Eurovision. EUROVISION!!!!!"Dan Gould
and Brigitte Vasallo
8 May 2018 (2018-05-08)
Eurovision and #MeToo in Spain
24"The winner takes it all, the loser takes a selfie"Farah Abdi
and MaJiKer
15 May 2018 (2018-05-15)
LGBT refugees in Europe and Eurovision songwriting
25"Hello, new listeners!"19 May 2018 (2018-05-19)
[Updated trailer]
26"A wedding and no funeral"Marit Higraff
and Kieran Hodgson
22 May 2018 (2018-05-22)
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 (2018-05-29)
EU Sci-Fi and a European talent show for deaf people
28"Changing PMs at 103 BPMs"Akbar Ahmed5 June 2018 (2018-06-05)
Islam in Europe
29"Bonus episode: Akbar Ahmed on Islam in Europe"Akbar Ahmed8 June 2018 (2018-06-08)
Extended conversation about Islam's role in Europe
30"Waxy smiles"Aljaž Pengov Bitenc12 June 2018 (2018-06-12)
Elections in Slovenia
31"HEAT"Dicle Akar
and Patrick Galey
31 July 2018 (2018-07-31)
Turkish identity in Germany and extreme weather
32"Piss and Populism"Adrian Murphy
and Timo Lochoki
7 August 2018 (2018-08-07)
Europeana and populism in Europe
33"The traces they leave"Deborah Cole14 August 2018 (2018-08-14)
Collecting memories of elderly Germans
34"The G-Spot of Europe"Dimi Dimitrov
and Agneta Ladek
21 August 2018 (2018-08-21)
Regulating the internet in Europe and an eye-catching Vilnius tourism campaign
35"Greece and Fabrice"Nick Malkoutzis
and Fabrice Pothier
28 August 2018 (2018-08-28)
The situation in Greece and cycling through Europe
36"Nation Branding, Robot Dancing"Charlotte Bostrom4 September 2018 (2018-09-04)
Sweden's national branding
37"The Future Library"Anne Beate Hovind11 September 2018 (2018-09-11)
Burying books in the woods
38"Welcome To Europe, Here Are Four Walls"Alice Pittini18 September 2018 (2018-09-18)
Housing for refugees and asylum seekers
39"WEB OF LIES"Mikey Stothard
and Kyrill Hartog
25 September 2018 (2018-09-25)
A Spanish plagiarism scandal and Are We Europe
40"Wall, Rocket, Bottle, Horse"Monique van de Abeel and Alexander Hurst2 October 2018 (2018-10-02)
Guide horses and Americans in Europe
41"Macedo, Macedon't"Emil Atanasovski
and Kevin Sachs
9 October 2018 (2018-10-09)
Renaming Macedonia and Netflix in Europe
42"The Unlucky Passport"Thana Faroq
and Bram Hilkens
16 October 2018 (2018-10-16)
A photography project about passports and European hip hop
43"Big continent, mini episode"23 October 2018 (2018-10-23)
Bacteria and cathedral thinking
44"Everyone's free to vote (and wear sunscreen)"Frank Piplat
and Sally Eshun
30 October 2018 (2018-10-30)
The European Parliament and hate speech in Europe
45"Watching Over The Night Watch"Taco Dibbits
and Marjorie H. Morgan
6 November 2018 (2018-11-06)
Restoring Rembrandt and being black in Europe
46"The black soldier's lament"Christian Koller13 November 2018 (2018-11-13)
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 (2018-11-20)
Opening for Louis CK and tech in Europe
48"Picasso, Poland & Pedagogy"Juliette Perchais27 November 2018 (2018-11-27)
Teaching in tough schools
49"Flavia and the Machine (anniversary episode)"Andrea Chalupa
and Flavia Kleiner
4 December 2018 (2018-12-04)
A Welsh journalist in Ukraine and fighting rightwing populism in Switzerland
50"Freedom"Paulita Pappel
and Marta Pardavi
11 December 2018 (2018-12-11)
Feminist porn and defending Hungarian rights
51"The Bee Word"Joris Luyendijk18 December 2018 (2018-12-18)
Europe in 2019

2019

No.TitleGuest(s)Original air date
52"It's that damn bear again"Teemu Roos
and Ania Jakubek
22 January 2019 (2019-01-22)
Training Finland in AI and a Polish wartime bear
53"Kraemer vs Kraemer"Daniel Kraemer29 January 2019 (2019-01-29)
Weirdness of the British parliament
54"Stick it to the grown-ups"Lilly Platt
and Laure Brillaud
5 February 2019 (2019-02-05)
School striking and Golden visas
55"The skies over Skopje"Aleksandar Dimishkovski12 February 2019 (2019-02-12)
The most polluted city in Europe
56"The most isolated place on Earth"Meganne Christian19 February 2019 (2019-02-19)
French-Italian research base in the Antarctic
57"The brands that Karl built"Fiachra Gibbons26 February 2019 (2019-02-26)
The flaws, quirks and legacy of Karl Lagerfeld
58"They / Them / Theirs"CN Lester and
Mick ter Reehorst
5 March 2019 (2019-03-05)
Transgender rights in Europe and getting the youth vote out #ProveThemWrong
59"A taste of the nuclear apocalypse"Julie McDowall12 March 2019 (2019-03-12)
How Europe prepared for nuclear war
60"MEGALITHS!!!!"Bettina Schulz Paulsson19 March 2019 (2019-03-19)
Unlocking the mystery of megalithic monuments
61"Political Tinder"Sebastian Horn26 March 2019 (2019-03-26)
A project bringing Europeans from across the political spectrum together
62"Nice One, Slovakia"Mimi Billing9 April 2019 (2019-04-09)
Microchipping humans
63"Disinformation Wars"Jules Darmanin16 April 2019 (2019-04-16)
Continent-wide fact-checking
64"Lyra"Susan McKay23 April 2019 (2019-04-23)
The murder of Lyra McKee
65"Happy Birthday Bauhaus!"Henry Isaacs
and Kurt Overbergh
30 April 2019 (2019-04-30)
Anniversary of Bauhaus and new sounds in Brussels
66"Bananadrama"Martyn Poliakoff7 May 2019 (2019-05-07)
Turning the periodic table upside down
67"Syria, Kosovo, Brussels and the mountain"AJ Naddaff
and Maxime Caligaro
14 May 2019 (2019-05-14)
Kosovo repatriating ISIS fighters and a crime novel set in Brussels
68"Special episode: Bursting the Bubble, Part 1"21 May 2019 (2019-05-21)
Special episode explaining what the European Parliament actually does
69"The wars of the future"Ulrike Franke28 May 2019 (2019-05-28)
Drones and 'killer robots'
70"Who won?"Caroline de Gruyter4 June 2019 (2019-06-04)
Unpicking the results of the European elections
71"Europe needs culture"André Wilkens11 June 2019 (2019-06-11)
Why Europeans need to get better at telling their own story
72"Sarajevo calling"Aleksandar Brezar18 June 2019 (2019-06-18)
Bosnian politics
73"Eldorado"Kai Maurer25 June 2019 (2019-06-25)
The cult European soap opera: Eldorado
74"Notes from Black Europe"Johny Pitts2 July 2019 (2019-07-02)
What does it mean to be black in Europe?
75"Brave and competent women"Benjamin Roll9 July 2019 (2019-07-09)
A growing Czech protest movement
76"Morals and the Mediterranean"Matteo Villa16 July 2019 (2019-07-16)
Italian migration and the laws of the sea
77"When politicians talk about love"Darren Cunningham23 July 2019 (2019-07-23)
Electronic opera about politics and love
78"Portugal's revolutionary drug policy"Andreia Alves30 July 2019 (2019-07-30)
Decriminalisation of drugs in Portugal
79"Hiphopo"Federico Gobbo6 August 2019 (2019-08-06)
The internet and Esperanto
80"Back for your Görlitzening pleasure"Emily Schultheis10 September 2019 (2019-09-10)
Politics and Identity in the East of Germany
81"What the hell is the European Way of Life?"Alberto Alemanno17 September 2019 (2019-09-17)
Looking at the first decisions of Ursula von der Leyen
82"The Tourists of Venice"Elena Riu24 September 2019 (2019-09-24)
Venetian residents organising a fightback against overtourism
83"Podchraoladh"Darach Ó Séaghdha1 October 2019 (2019-10-01)
The Irish language
84"Toxic elements"Jaciek Dehnel8 October 2019 (2019-10-08)
LGBT rights in Poland
85"Invisible ink"Carme Font Paz22 October 2019 (2019-10-22)
Remembering the female writers that Europe forgot
86"A Polish teenage diarist"Ania Jakubek29 October 2019 (2019-10-29)
The extraordinary story of Renia Spiegel
87"Loggerheads"Gabriel Paun5 November 2019 (2019-11-05)
Protecting Romanian forests against logging
88"The Other Europeans"Orlando Figes12 November 2019 (2019-11-12)
A cultural history of 19th Century Europe
89"Postcards from Europe: Herstedvester"Lene Bech Sillesen19 November 2019 (2019-11-19)
Special episode exploring a Greenlandic inmates in a Danish maximum-security prison
90"Europe's colonial past and present"Elliot Ross26 November 2019 (2019-11-26)
How the colonial past of Europe continues to affect the present
91"President of the European what now?"Tom Moylan3 December 2019 (2019-12-03)
Special episode explaining the European Commission
92"What's going on in Malta?"Ranier Fsadni10 December 2019 (2019-12-10)
Investigating the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia
93"A bar in Budapest"Gyuri Bihari17 December 2019 (2019-12-17)
A bar at the centre of the fightback against Hungary's government

2020

No.TitleGuest(s)Original air date
94"A fisherman goes to Brussels"Katz Laszlo8 January 2020 (2020-01-08)
Special episode telling the story of a Catalan fisherman influencing European policy
95"Why are monarchies still a thing in Europe?"Bob Morris15 January 2020 (2020-01-15)
European monarchies
96"Fanya and the Forest"Fanya Brancovskaja22 January 2020 (2020-01-22)
a 97-year-old holocaust survivor living in Vilnius
97"How the hell do you make an EU law?"Katz Laszlo5 February 2020 (2020-02-05)
Explaining how the E.U. Single-Use Plastics directive was passed.
98"What just happened in Ireland?"Naomi O'Leary12 February 2020 (2020-02-12)
Irish Election Results
99"Eurafrica"Patrick Gathara19 February 2020 (2020-02-19)
Eurafrica: a forgotten post-war project
100"Why is Greece's refugee policy such a mess?"Apostolis Fotiadis26 February 2020 (2020-02-26)
Migration researcher explains what is going wrong in Greece
101"The God Lobby"Quentin Aries4 March 2020 (2020-03-04)
Religious lobbying in Europe
102"Long Distance"Saara Turunen11 March 2020 (2020-03-11)
Cross-cultural relationships
103"Consent"Emma Holten18 March 2020 (2020-03-18)
Revenge porn
104"Lakes and dogs"Kapka Kassabova
and Katz Laszlo
25 March 2020 (2020-03-25)
Inner and outer geographies of the Balkans
105"Absolutely marble-lous"Dion Bakker
and Meganne Christian
1 April 2020 (2020-04-01)
Jelle's Marble Runs and isolation tips
106"Poll-Land"Ania Jakubek15 April 2020 (2020-04-15)
Politics of Poland
107"Normal and Boring"Christoph Niemann22 April 2020 (2020-04-22)
visual essay about Estonia
108"The Other C-Words"Esther Goodwin-Brown29 April 2020 (2020-04-29)
the Circle Economy
109"Quarantainment"Noé Debré6 May 2020 (2020-05-06)
European Parliament
110"What is Russia doing at the bottom of the sea?"Thomas Nilsen13 May 2020 (2020-05-13)
Russian submarine Losharik
111"Wikipedia's Missing Women"Rebecca O'Neill20 May 2020 (2020-05-20)
Women in Red
112"Guide to a Non-Existent Country"Giovanni Vale27 May 2020 (2020-05-27)
Guidebooks about countries that no longer exist
113"The Great Pull of China"Tom Wan3 June 2020 (2020-06-03)
Europe's relationship with China
114"Why the Black Lives Matter protests are different in Europe"Quinsy Gario10 June 2020 (2020-06-10)
Black Lives Matter
115"Recipes for rebellion"Albena Shkodrova17 June 2020 (2020-06-17)
A history of food and cooking in the People's Republic of Bulgaria
116"Love, bees and brain surgery"Rafael Loss24 June 2020 (2020-06-24)
European Solidarity Tracker from European Council on Foreign Relations
117"The Political Pianist"Igor Levit1 July 2020 (2020-07-01)
Racism in Germany and performing during the coronavirus pandemic
118"George Soros, Explained"Emily Tamkin8 July 2020 (2020-07-08)
George Soros
119"The Summer of Solidarity"Natalie Nougayrède8 March 2020 (2020-15-08)
Europe's media landscape
120"The Chain, part one"Andreea Sirbu,
Thomas van Neerbos,
and Veronica Tosetti
6 August 2020 (2020-08-06)
What Europeans love about each other's countries
121"The Chain, part two"Julie Lindahl,
Sedera Ranaivoarinosy,
and Marta Santiváñez
14 August 2020 (2020-08-14)
What Europeans love about each other's countries
122"The Chain, part three"Philip Pollak,
Viola Theunissen,
and Nina Lamparski
19 August 2020 (2020-08-19)
What Europeans love about each other's countries
123"Italy's past, Europe's future"Francesca Melandri9 September 2020 (2020-09-09)
Europe and Italy

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