Greece has been suffering an economic catastrophe since 2010.
She is repeatedly rescued, but always by men or by chance – she never escape catastrophe thanks to her own ingenuity.
But as I heard all this, I couldn't help thinking of how comfortable it is, in a way, for most of us in the west to look at the catastrophe in the Middle East and take the fatalistic view that events have taken on a momentum that is beyond our influence.
Not for you, of course; because, as a former IT manager, I know your backup regime is this: 1) Never back up; 2) When catastrophe hits, come to me, crying.
The 10 10 campaign was launched in September last year, based on the Climate Safety report's identification that a 10% cut in the developed world's emissions by the end of 2010 would boost the planet's chances of avoiding a climate catastrophe.
So while it is good to understand what factors will determine our carbon budget, it is much more important to call on politicians and investors alike to get a grip on this issue and face up to the simple and incontestable reality: there's far more fossil fuel than we can burn, and the more of it that we take out of the ground, the greater the risk of an irreversible climate catastrophe.
There is a policy review process, a manifesto and the small matter of winning another election between here and catastrophe, but the sheer barbarism of the outlined idea is breathtaking.
In the catastrophe that ensued, electricity, water supply, communication networks and public transportation were totally shut down.
"The merger is not only a cultural and strategic catastrophe, because it will mean the destruction of two prestigious bodies of sound, but in the long term it would seem that the economic arguments behind it are unfounded as over time it will not lead to any savings," said Dieter Schickling, a former head of music programming at SDR.
Peter Boudgoust, the director of the SWR, has been called a "cultural gravedigger" by the general secretary of the German music council, Christian Höppner, for what he called the "cultural political catastrophe".
Wogan remembers how the UK's entrant, Olivia Newton John, finished fourth that year and he predicted catastrophe for her career.
