Patrick Evans is an award winning playwright and impresario who has spent his working life in Scotland. In the 90s he brought the ground breaking Fools Paradise comedy circuit to Scotland introducing the then, unknown talents of Jo Brand, Eddie Izzard, Jack Dee, Lee Evans and Bill Bailey. He moved on to be Director of […]

Carrie and Anthony McIntyre are writers and researchers living in Ireland. Carrie is an American who has lived in Ireland for 20 years. She was the former editor for The Blanket, an online journal that analysed the peace process. Anthony is a former IRA prisoner and author of both Good Friday and the Death of […]

On this episode of 'A Couple of Europhiles' we're honored to talk with Roberto Davide. Francis and Robert enjoy a passionate discussion about the EU, the US, Brexit and lots of cultural realities. Roberto's a native New Yorker and dual US-Italian national who also happens to be fluent in an awful lot of languages. He's […]

Today's episode celebrates Austria, the country that spends more on Culture than Defense. We'll discuss banking, growing up with Austria's borders but really, it's about cake; Austria has forgotten more about cake than any other culture has ever known.

Today we interviewed Giuliano Mai, an Italian living in England and discussed Brexit; specifically the challenges faced by businesses attempting to prepare for January 1st. Tonight, the announcement will arrive, hopefully clarity will prevail.

Welcome back to A Couple of Europhiles. In this episode, Francis explores cultural diversity between Italy and Switzerland, with Stefan Caballo, an Italian expat living and working in Switzerland.

Welcome to a 'A Couple of Europhiles' podcast. In this episode we continue our tour through Italy, including Lazio, Tuscany, Liguria, Val d'Aosta and Piemonte. Through storytelling, geography and lots of fun facts we let you travel through the regions of Italy. Enjoy!

Welcome to "A Couple of Europhiles" podcast. This one's good fun. Through storytelling, geography and lots of fun facts - because Francis is full of them - we're going to cruise through most of Italy's 20 regions. Or what some consider 20 separate states of mind within this strangely happy entity we call Italy. Part […]

Cultural Realities on the Brexit from the perspective of the EU

We all know how the English feel about Brexit, it's time for a serious chat from the perspective of EU member states; today, France, Germany, Holland and the Nordic states