European culture and products
One good thing from Europe, every weekday.
A film, an album, a book, a podcast or a product made in Europe. Read a new pick here from Monday to Friday, or get all five in your inbox on Saturday morning.
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Today’s pick
Series: Occupied (Okkupert) ๐ณ๐ด
Russia takes control of Norway to restart its oil, with quiet support from the EU. Occupied is a tense Norwegian thriller.
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From the archive
Picks you may have missed
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Series: Die Kaiserin (The Empress) ๐ฉ๐ช
Netflix reimagines Empress Sisi’s early years as raw, dramatic and unapologetically emotional, not the sanitized legend everyone grew up with.
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Film: The Peasants (Chลopi) ๐ต๐ฑ
More than 40,000 oil paintings, brought to life frame by frame by the team behind Loving Vincent. The story follows Jagna, a young woman…
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Phone: Mudita ๐ต๐ฑ
A calm-tech phone with an E Ink display, designed for essential use rather than endless scrolling.
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Series: Portobello ๐ฎ๐น
In 1983, Italy’s favourite TV host was shown in handcuffs for crimes he never committed. Marco Bellocchio tells his story in Portobello.
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Podcast: The Europeans; “Every @#$%ing quirk of the English language” ๐ช๐บ
The Europeans, a weekly podcast from Paris and Amsterdam, asks why English is so strange. Perfect for anyone who speaks it as a second…
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Most of what we watch, read and use comes from far away. Europe makes wonderful things too, and many of them never reach us because nobody talks about them. We do, one pick at a time.
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