Dua Lipa
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2,000 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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And that's like more than half of Albanians, including your family, they lost all their savings.
People lost everything.
And a lot of people tried to leave, but then neighboring countries didn't want to accept any asylum, refused to grant asylum to Albanians.
People died in small boat crossings.
Another thing that really touched me was that eventually, even your mother lost hope.
There's this tragic split in your family when unannounced your mother just takes your brother to Italy and she justifies it by saying, I rescued a child.
And then your grandmother Nini goes, yeah, but you left a child, which was you, of course.
And for anyone who hasn't lived through this kind of chaos, this total economic collapse, the pyramid schemes and the civil war, it's almost impossible to imagine leaving a child behind.
But can you take us back to what Albania was like in 1997 and help us understand a little bit about the impossible choices that people had to make?
Yeah, it's really interesting because what is freedom, really, if not everybody gets to have it?
we can't talk about the history of albania without talking a little bit about albania today and i'm sure that a lot of people uh listening will have heard about all the protests that are happening right now and i i have to say i find it so inspiring to see how much people really care you know day after day they're like hitting the streets um because the government has opened up this part of a beautiful nature reserve to a high-end beachfront development and of course this has been a
This has been a huge story internationally because the company that's invested in the project is part owned by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
But what I actually find concerning is the principle that the government could just change the law to remove the environmental protection without any kind of public consultation.
And I imagine you have a lot to say about this as well.
I also love that it's called the Flamingo Revolution.
I think also there's some beautiful connotations and I think the determination is important.
And I think, like you said, there is
such a big change in the way that people are protesting and how they're approaching this situation.
It is important to hold politicians accountable and to be like, okay, who does this really help in the grand scheme of things?
Who does this benefit?
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