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    Non-boring podcasts about Europe.

  • Russia's gas games

  • Democratic salami and boiling frogs

  • Cold water, warm hearts

  • The manosphere, the 'TikTok messiah', and 132 hamsters

  • Has Donald Tusk fixed Poland?

  • The perils of standing up to Iran from Europe

  • A special announcement from The Europeans

  • Spain's floods, Moldova's election, and what the kids of Europe are watching

  • Is this the end of Georgia's European dream?

  • Naughty, naughty Switzerland

  • Russia's mysterious sabotage campaign

  • Using grandma to make people cry about climate change

  • What do the European Union and Barbie have in common?

  • Mussolini, testicles, and the Schengen zone

  • Swedish authorities say it's fine if you listen to this podcast

  • This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: Kinga

  • This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: Sara

  • A Q&A with The Europeans

  • 'Luca'

  • What happens after France's surprise swing to the left?

  • Why is European cinema so different from Hollywood?

  • Pigeon murders, the nature restoration law, and Scandinavian family therapy

  • The most confusing elections of all time?

  • Why give a damn about the European elections?

  • The Big-Agri Bully Boys

  • What's more endangered: wolves or Eurovision?

  • Can food labels make us healthier?

  • The regime that ended with a song

  • Why the Swiss women’s climate victory is such a big deal

  • The biggest climate case that ever was

  • Nepo great-great-great-grand-babies

  • Less Beyoncé, more bouzouki

  • Small Ex-Soviet Satellite State My Ass

  • The Portuguese Constitution Is Delicious

  • YOLO, Swiss pensioners

  • Army Boots

  • Orbán’s biggest crisis?

  • Two Parallel Polands

  • Toxic air and toxic politicians

  • Why are Europe’s farmers so angry?

  • What actually happens to Europe’s recycling?

  • Influencer fraud, liveable cities and the Israel taboo

  • ’Twas Christmas Eve In Dublin

  • The Christmas Book Flood

  • An Autocrat’s Guide to Destroying Local Media, Part 2

  • An Autocrat’s Guide to Destroying Local Media, Part 1

  • The Dutch Turn Right, Spain Stays Left

  • This Ukrainian Will Not Compete For Your Attention

  • The Oatly Chronicles Part 3: Can Green Capitalism Save Us All?

  • The Oatly Chronicles Part 2: What’s The Housing Crisis Got To Do With It?

  • The Oatly Chronicles Part 1: The Big Dairy Problem

  • Train bistros and an oily climate commissioner

  • Anyone for fried jellyfish?

  • Politically Charged Post

  • Mohamed

  • What is Europe up to on Africa’s borders?

  • Threads, solar and giant farming lobbies

  • Fighting Putin, one meme at a time

  • Greece’s elections, whales, and disability rights

  • Beyoncé, inflation and the case for climate optimism

  • Why is it so hard to fix Kosovo’s problems?

  • Europe’s place in outer space

  • The biggest climate case that ever was

  • The naughty child of NATO?

  • Eurovision vs. The Champions League

  • Brussels, that well-known comedy goldmine

  • How racial bias is messing with DNA research

  • Libraries: the safest spaces we have?

  • The great investment greenwash

  • Suspicion machines and combustion engines

  • Why would you flood a forest?

  • What is Putin up to in Moldova?

  • So Nearly A Eurovision Hit

  • Valeria

  • Spies, wolves and taxes

  • Germany’s Gonna Germany

  • The dark side of fine dining

  • Andrea

  • Merry Christmas And A Penis Morning To You

  • The Surprising Queer History of Poland

  • Is China trying to police people in Europe?

  • Good Five Years, Bad Five Years

  • Fleeing climate change

  • Take your time in Barcelona

  • The one where we take over the European Parliament

  • Kinga

  • Hacked by Hungary

  • Golden passports, anal beads, and the world’s most complicated elections

  • What the hell just happened in Italy?

  • The joys of the early internet

  • Episode 200! Sweden’s elections and a guy who used to run a country

  • Josh and Franco

  • Bad laws and feta wars

  • Farmers, fossils and files

  • The bigger the better?

  • Your Face Looks Familiar

  • It takes more than two, baby

  • What is Orbán playing at?

  • Hanna

  • Moldova’s Propaganda Problem

  • Solar-Powered Scrolling

  • Doctor Eurovision

  • Mohamed

  • Can the EU fix fast fashion?

  • Katy went to Le Pen’s party so you didn’t have to

  • Finnish Lessons

  • Millennial History: Children of the Decree

  • Millennial History: Sicily, Mafia and Falcone

  • Voice notes from Ukraine

  • Army boots

  • Let Them Entertain Us

  • WTF, housing market?

  • A Whale of a Taxonomy

  • The Case for Colour

  • Malta’s abortion taboo

  • Energy bills, bills, bills

  • The Europeans’ Christmas Party!

  • The life of a reindeer herder

  • The Subtle Art of Subtitling

  • Move Fast And Fix Things

  • Pushbacks

  • Trapped at the EU border

  • Sara

  • Will Europe’s climate policy save us all?

  • What the hell just happened in Poland?

  • The château, the walrus and the rogue Danish artist

  • The last 250 years of Amsterdam - Live at the Tolhuistuin

  • Submarines and rainbow families

  • The Belarus solidarity algorithm

  • Is Friday the new Saturday?

  • Europe’s next illiberal democracy?

  • Bread Week

  • Denisa

  • The women who built Europe

  • The plastics law, revisited

  • The best rainy city in the world

  • Thinker, Plaintiff, Merkel, Spy

  • Josh and Franco

  • Inventing an Alphabet

  • The bear, the prince and the streaming giant

  • Unravelling a Scandal

  • Cheese Diplomacy

  • Realo Greens and Fake Palm Trees

  • The Northern Ireland Knowledge Gap

  • Trains!

  • The power of Romanian teenagers

  • The Great Reverse Migration

  • Headscarves & Eurovision

  • Poland’s abortion fight

  • A polyphonic episode

  • Decolonising Kitchens

  • The weird and wonderful world of eels

  • Taming Big Tech

  • The Shell Case

  • The mafia on trial

  • Life after Merkel

  • ’Twas Christmas Eve in Dublin

  • Philip and Laci

  • An unsung hero

  • A country of dreamers

  • France’s invisible Asians

  • A hot mess of an airport

  • A non-election podcast

  • A war on the edge of Europe

  • The House of Many Languages

  • The One Where We Interview A Prime Minister

  • The oat milk question

  • Poison, puffins and the people’s game

  • Make Europe Romantic Again

  • The women of Belarus

  • Italy’s past, Europe’s future

  • The Chain, part three

  • The Chain, part two

  • The Chain, part one

  • The Summer of Solidarity

  • George Soros, Explained

  • The Political Pianist

  • Love, bees and brain surgery

  • Recipes for rebellion

  • Why the Black Lives Matter protests are different in Europe

  • The Great Pull of China

  • Guide to a Non-Existent Country

  • Wikipedia’s Missing Women

  • What is Russia doing at the bottom of the sea?

  • Quarantainment

  • The Other C-Words

  • Normal and Boring

  • Poll-Land

  • Not The Apocalypse

  • Absolutely marble-lous

  • Lakes and dogs

  • Consent

  • Long Distance

  • The God Lobby

  • Why is Greece’s refugee policy such a mess?

  • Eurafrica

  • What just happened in Ireland?

  • How the hell do you make an EU law?

  • Fanya and the Forest

  • Why are monarchies still a thing in Europe?

  • A fisherman goes to Brussels

  • A bar in Budapest

  • What’s going on in Malta?

  • President of the European what now?

  • Europe’s colonial past and present

  • Postcards from Europe: Herstedvester

  • The Other Europeans

  • Loggerheads

  • A Polish teenage diarist

  • Invisible ink

  • Toxic elements

  • Podchraoladh

  • The Tourists of Venice

  • What the hell is the European Way of Life?

  • Back for your Görlitzening pleasure

  • Hiphopo

  • Portugal’s revolutionary drug policy

  • When politicians talk about love

  • Morals and the Mediterranean

  • Brave and competent women

  • Notes from Black Europe

  • Eldorado

  • Sarajevo calling

  • Europe needs culture

  • Who won?

  • The wars of the future

  • SPECIAL EPISODE: Bursting the Bubble, Part 1

  • Syria, Kosovo, Brussels and the mountain

  • Bananadrama

  • Happy Birthday Bauhaus!

  • Lyra

  • Disinformation Wars

  • Nice One, Slovakia

  • Political Tinder

  • MEGALITHS!!!!

  • A taste of the nuclear apocalypse

  • They / Them / Theirs

  • The brands that Karl built

  • The most isolated place on Earth

  • The skies over Skopje

  • Stick it to the grown-ups

  • Kraemer vs Kraemer

  • It’s that damn bear again

  • The Bee Word

  • Freedom

  • Flavia and the Machine (anniversary episode)

  • November 27: Picasso, Poland & Pedagogy

  • November 20: Why doesn’t Europe have a Silicon Valley?

  • November 13: The black soldier’s lament

  • November 6: Watching Over The Night Watch

  • October 30: Everyone’s free to vote (and wear sunscreen)

  • October 23: Big continent, mini episode

  • October 16: The Unlucky Passport

  • October 9: Macedo, Macedon’t

  • October 2: Wall, Rocket, Bottle, Horse

  • September 25: WEB OF LIES

  • September 18: Welcome To Europe, Here Are Four Walls

  • September 11: The Future Library

  • September 4: Nation Branding, Robot Dancing

  • August 28: Greece and Fabrice

  • August 21: The G-Spot of Europe

  • August 14: The traces they leave

  • August 7: Piss and Populism

  • July 31: HEAT

  • June 12: Waxy smiles

  • BONUS EPISODE: Akbar Ahmed on Islam in Europe

  • June 5: Changing PMs at 103 BPMs

  • May 29: Five Stars, Ireland

  • May 22: A wedding and no funeral

  • Hello, new listeners!

  • May 15: The winner takes it all, the loser takes a selfie

  • May 7: Eurovision. EUROVISION!!!!!

  • May 1: Sticks and stones and dandruff

  • April 24: Keep your bitcoin close and your botany closer

  • April 17: Once Upon A Time In Hungary

  • April 10: Liberté, Egalité, Difficultés

  • April 3: Trash islands and rainbow homes

  • March 27: French Burgers, Danish Pizza

  • March 20: Suzy Menkes and the Beer-Brewing Monks

  • March 13: The best place for our little sprouts

  • March 6: Don’t put salt on every snail

  • BONUS EPISODE: ALEXANDRA PASCALIDOU

  • Feb 27: Making peace with the wolves

  • Feb 20: Olympic gold, Dominic is old, Katy has a cold

  • Feb 13: Mi kidney, su kidney

  • Feb 6: Build your own Europe, baby

  • Jan 30: Trawlin’, Ballin’, Fallin’

  • Jan 23: Fake snus

  • Jan 16: Translating Trump, Defending Deneuve

  • Jan 9: The Dumbest Farmer Finds The Biggest Potatoes

  • Dec 19: O Come All Ye Phosphateful

  • Dec 12: National Hallydays

  • Dec 5: C’est too much

  • Nov 28: Katy smells the money

  • The Trailer

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