Episodes

  • Inside Europe 20 February 2025

    Inside Europe 20 February 2025
    Feb 20 2025
    We hit the streets of Berlin this week for an action-packed German Elections Special! Join host, Kate Laycock and political correspondent, Thomas Sparrow, as they tiptoe through the German Parliament buildings, relax in Berlin’s most famous political hang-out, gatecrash a TV news studio, and look back on some defining moments of German political history.
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    55 mins
  • Inside Europe 13 February 2025

    Inside Europe 13 February 2025
    Feb 13 2025
    Ahead of German elections, Mark Leonard from the European Council on Foreign Relations reflects on Germany's significance within the wider European project. We investigate the murky world of underwater stealth sabotage. The German town of Meiningen fosters a cultural oasis in the middle of an AfD stronghold. And Alice in Orbanland: AfD leader Weidel pays a visit to Hungary.
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    55 mins
  • Inside Europe 6 February 2025

    Inside Europe 6 February 2025
    Feb 6 2025
    Protests in Serbia and elections in Kosovo, the worst mass shooting in Swedish history, and Jens Stoltenberg’s surprise return to Norwegian politics. In the second half: we take a long-form look at migrant experience in Finland, find out how to access Polish nature reserves in a wheelchair, and revel in the squelchy sounds of Scotland’s UNESCO World Heritage peat bog!
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    55 mins
  • Inside Europe 30 January 2025

    Inside Europe 30 January 2025
    Jan 30 2025
    Has Germany’s firewall against the right just fallen? We’ll be taking you through an historic week in the German parliament, with wide-reaching implications for both German, and European democracy. Expect expert legal opinion, political analysis, and a beginner’s guide to democracy prepping: https://fragdenstaat.de/aktionen/prepping/&maca=en-podcast_inside-europe-949-xml-mrss#upgrade
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    55 mins
  • Inside Europe 23 January 2025

    Inside Europe 23 January 2025
    Jan 23 2025
    Intrigue and betrayal in the German Green Party, Europe reacts to Trump, and President Erdogan’s delicate balancing act. Later in the show: a personal story of survival and friendship - 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. Finding empowerment and hope in the ranks of a UK climate choir, and what an epiphany: Serbian men in Speedos take the plunge. All will be explained - we promise!
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    55 mins
  • Inside Europe 16 January 2025

    Inside Europe 16 January 2025
    Jan 16 2025
    Stealth fleets and underwater sabotage, a landslide victory for the man they call the Croatian Trump, a peek inside the atelier of the tailor to the Vatican’s Swiss Guard, and Turkey’s double game when it comes to wine consumption.
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    55 mins
  • Inside Europe 9 January 2025

    Inside Europe 9 January 2025
    Jan 9 2025
    Trump eyes up Greenland and Musk courts the AfD, Iran releases Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, Herbert Kickl tries to form a government in Austria, and Jean-Marie Le Pen dies in France. We also mark the 20th anniversary of one of Germany's most notorious deaths in custody, and delve into the marvellous secrets of a Spanish cork forrest.
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    55 mins
  • Inside Europe 2 January 2025

    Inside Europe 2 January 2025
    Jan 2 2025
    Looking forwards, looking back with our correspondents in Brussels, Paris, Kyiv and Berlin. Plus a special feature-length focus on The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at 25.
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    55 mins