This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: Sara

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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We're away on our summer break until September, but this week and next week we're re-releasing two of our favourite episodes from The Europeans' award-winning series, 'This Is What A Generation Sounds Like. This week, a story that spans three generations of women: Sara, her mother, and her grandmother. In their collective lifetimes, Albania entered a communist dictatorship; the regime fell; and then there was a transition. And through it all, there was a dish: trahana. This episode first aired in 2021. You can find a beautiful visual version of this podcast, produced by our friends at Are We Europe, here.This series was co-produced with Are We Europe and made in cooperation with the Allianz Foundation.Producers: Katz Laszlo and Sara Assistant producer: Priyanka Shankar Editor: Katy Lee Sound design: Katz Laszlo Editorial support: Dominic Kraemer, Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Era e Feminise, by Elina Duni; Song of Emigration, by Women’s Choir from Permet; Tana, by Saziso; Ka Nje mot e gjysem viti, by Elina Duni Quartet; Jonuzi Me Shoket by Vaome Kaba; Ballerina by Yehezkel Raz; Mëmëdheu by the Peter Pan Quartet; Jim Barne. SFX from Freesound.org. Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few bucks a month at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/europeanspodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (many currencies are available). You can also help new listeners find the show by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠leaving us a review⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or giving us five stars on Spotify. Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mastodon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠

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0:00.0	Hello, this is the Europeans coming to you this week from Amsterdam and the South of France.
0:28.3	Oh, lucky you. Hi, Katie.
0:31.6	Hi.
0:32.3	So you're one of the many Parisians who's fled the city during the Olympics, are you?
0:37.4	Yeah, I'm one of the many regretful Parisians who were very pessimistic about how this whole thing was
0:42.4	going to go and are now watching it on TV from elsewhere in France and thinking, oh, it looks really
0:47.9	fun.
0:48.4	And I'm hearing that Paris is like surprisingly empty.
0:51.7	There are all these videos of like empty Disneyland Paris and empty bistros,
0:56.7	which is quite surprising. Great time to go to Disneyland Paris if you're that kind of person.
1:01.9	How are you? I'm totally fine. Just been celebrating Pride this weekend, Upsand, which was very fun.
1:07.8	And it really feels like summer has started. Yay. And with that in mind,
1:13.0	our regular show is actually away now until September. But while we're away on our summer
1:19.4	break, we thought we'd share a couple of our favourite ever episodes from this long running series
1:25.8	and award-winning series we've made called This is What a Generation
1:29.2	Sounds Like. A couple of weeks back, you might have heard the final episode in that series,
1:33.8	which took us to Hungary. If you haven't heard it yet, go back and listen because it is a really
1:38.4	thought-provoking and at times very funny story about a young woman and her grandparents,
1:47.3	disagreeing over what to do with the family farm.
1:52.5	The series in general took us all across Europe to hear the stories of young people living on this continent.
1:56.9	And this week we're going to Albania to hear the story of Sara.
2:02.6	And you'll be pleased to hear that it's a story about food, specifically a delicious Albanian soup called Trahanna. At the time, Sarah was working as a writer, and in her free time,
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