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SwissPats: Middle Ages Market

SwissPats

Don and Suzi give us the update for what's going on in German-speaking Switzerland. This week we're talking medieval festivals, musicals, and the Fly Me To The Moon exhibitions! &nb...

Exposure Science Film Hackathon: Science meets film

Mid Morning Mix

The Exposure Science Film Hackathon brings scientists, artists, filmmakers, storytellers, musicians, communicators and mentors together to make short films. This Saturday's event in Ge...

Swiss Netball

Mid Morning Mix

Jo Beveridge tells us about Swiss Netball ahead of the 'Peppermill Challenge' netball championship event in Lausanne this Sunday.

Cheyenne Mackay talking about SonOhr ; a radio & podcast festival

Mid Morning Mix

We caught up with Cheyenne Mackay at Radiodays Europe in Lausanne to talk about the radio & podcast festival she co-founded...

Music Together - interactive music workshops for kids 0-5yrs and their families

Mid Morning Mix

Joana and Robin from 'Music Together in Geneva Center' came in to tell us about their Music Together programme and how kids often come to love music through copying the adults around them. ...

Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Theatre In English

The Breakfast Show

Mark talks to Tamaam Nassar and Christopher Bailey, part of the cast for the upcoming play Les Liaisons Dangereuses, about narcissism, manipulation and seduction - all things we can ...

Celeste Shadie - International Women's Club of Nyon Spring Fair

Mid Morning Mix

This Saturday 9th March the International Women's Club of Nyon will host a Spring Fair. We spoke to IWCN President Celeste Shadie...

ART SEEN - Jacques Berger

ART SEEN

Uli Van Neyghem tells us about the charming exhibition in Pully of the work of Jacques Berger: A Swiss painter who refused to be put into boxes.

Maurice Turrettini - Geneva International Motor Show

Mid Morning Mix

Geneva International Show AKA Salon de l'auto takes place this year between the 7-17 March. GIMS President, Maurice Turrettini joins Katt in the studio to tell us about it the 2019 event; newco...

Swisspats: Fasnacht in Lucerne

SwissPats

Carnival in Lucerne - 28th Feb to 6th March Suzie tells us all about what we can see at the Fasnacht festival this year, including traditional parades and why Lucerne is special this year....

Zero Discrimination Day

Mid Morning Mix

We find out more about the upcoming Geneva Pride this Summer with Andy Seale on an important day; International Zero Discrimination Day - 1st March.

STOMP co-creator Luke Cresswell

Mid Morning Mix

STOMP is coming to Lausanne in March! The show's co-creator Luke Cresswell tells us how the show started and what the audition process is like...

Crans Montana - Absolutely!

Mid Morning Mix

Family friendly? Absolutely! Crans Montana really is a family friendly destination! There are plenty of activities for families in both summer and winter! Gaëlle Bodrito from Cra...

Crans Montana: Gauthier Chiarini - Fondation Opale

Mid Morning Mix

Art & Culture? Absolutely! Gauthier Chiarini, Director of the Fondation Opale, tells us more about the cultural centre in the heart of Crans Montana that displays Aboriginal contem...

Swiss Up - The Iranian-American hostage crisis

Swiss Up!

40 years ago, Iranian revolutionaires took American diplomats hostage for over a year. Find out on today's episode of Swiss Up! what Switzerland's role in the crisis was and how Switzerland...

Swiss Up! - What's the Zone Franche?

Swiss Up!

We will tell you! It's somewhat like a buffer zone between France and Switzerland in terms of customs. It's also a region in which French produce can be labelled as Swiss if they so wish to...

What's on in German speaking Switzerland this weekend? (8 February 2019)

SwissPats

This week, Don from Swisspats looks at the last MUBA fair in Basel - its been going since 1917, and will end this year. Traditional brass band music in Lucerne, Solothurn and Basel Land, and Guggen...

Get Swissed in the Bernese Oberland

Mid Morning Mix

Discover winter magic, find peace and get a shot of adrenaline in this episode of "Get Swissed" in the heart of the Bernese Oberland. Are you ready?

An interview with the Iron Maiden frontman, pilot & entrepreneur

Mid Morning Mix

We may be more used to seeing him as a heavy-metal icon and the ultimate rockstar, but Bruce Dickinson is coming to Switzerland with a different kind of show - a one-man comedy. I...

A catch-up with Shakin' Stevens ahead of his European tour

Mid Morning Mix

Shakin' Stevens talks to Katt Cullen on the Mid Morning Mix about his 12th studio album 'Echoes of Our Times' and the story behind the name.

What's on in German speaking Switzerland this weekend?

SwissPats

Suzi and Don from the podcast Swisspats run through what's on this weekend. Basel will be busy with a cheese festival and the traditional Vogel Gryff parade - which also has cannons! And a moun...

Come Up - Slow Down - in Gstaad

Mid Morning Mix

Michel Hediger works at the Tourism Office / Gstaad Marketing. He gives us a little background about how Gstaad came to be the destination that it is today. It involves a rather...

Gstaad - Marius, creator of Iglu Dorf

Mid Morning Mix

Marius builds the same hotel every year. Why? Because it melts every spring. He's the Manager of Iglu-Dorf - a hotel made out of snow up on the slopes in Gstaad. With only 11 rooms, it's...

Gstaad - Michel Hediger, Product Manager at Gstaad Marketing

Mid Morning Mix

Michel works at the Tourism Office in Gstaad. He gives us a little background about how Gstaad came to be the destination that it is today; a happy accident involving a mountain that was far too st...