About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of European train travel and features guest Jon Worth, who advocates for better cross-border transit.

If you’ve ever wondered where all the affordable night trains are, or struggled to book tickets for an international journey, or spent hours of your one wild and precious life petitioning for compensation for a significantly delayed trip ( *takes deep breath, collects self* )... let us introduce you to Jon Worth. This prolific train watcher and commentator is behind a new European Rail Passengers’ Union that is pushing for easier cross-border transit and may even help to resolve some people’s personal cross-border nightmares. Jon thinks Europe’s train travellers deserve better, and we tend to agree. Find out about the European Rail Passengers' Union here . Subscribe to his newsletter here , and check out his posts on Mastodon here . Also in this week’s episode: the latest in all those big moves to get European youth off of social media, and an Olympics opening ceremony broadcast debacle for the ages. And some crime-fighting llamas. This week’s Inspiration Station recommendations are Rosalía making a tortilla de patatas and the Spanish TV series Los Años Nuevos . Resources for this episode: “'I feel free': Australia's social media ban, one month on” – BBC, 9 January 2026 “Children…

People in this episode

Hosts: Katy Lee, Dominic Kraemer

Guest: Jon Worth

Topics covered

• European trains
• cross-border transit
• social media
• youth engagement
• Olympics
• crime-fighting llamas

Keywords

• train travel
• European Rail Passengers’ Union
• social media ban
• youth
• Olympics
• crime-fighting llamas

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: European Rail Passengers’ Union, BBC, European Parliament, Amnesty International

Books & works: Los Años Nuevos

Places: Australia, France

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