What's more endangered: wolves or Eurovision?

Update: 2024-05-16

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This week, the high drama of both European wolf policy and the Eurovision Song Contest. Wolves have made a huge comeback in Europe in recent years. How can we coexist peacefully with these hungry carnivores? We speak to the social scientist Hanna Pettersson about how humans are living alongside predators in Spain and Sweden. Plus, all the controversy from the most chaotic Eurovision in history, and why Catalans just voted to boot out their separatist government after a decade in power.

Hanna is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of York. You can listen to her interview with The Conversation here.

This week's Inspiration Station recommendations: 'The Regime' and this accompanying episode of 'Cautionary Tales'; 'There's Still Tomorrow'. 'Lost On Me' was translated into English by Leah Janeczko.

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Other resources for this episode:

'Why did Ireland give Israel 10 points at the Eurovision?' - RTE

Aitor Hernández-Morales on the Catalan elections

00:22 Europe needs a new continent-wide public holiday

02:38 Bad Week: The European Broadcasting Union

20:35 Good Week: Catalonia's Socialists

30:03 Interview: Hanna Pettersson on living with Europe's wolves

44:45 The Inspiration Station: The Regime and There's Still Tomorrow

49:28 Happy Ending: A pioneering law in Belgium

Producers: Morgan Childs and Katy Lee

Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak

Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina