Blues musician Philipp Fankhauser
Musician Philipp Fankhauser talks about how he turned blues into Swiss gold in this audio feature for swissinfo.
Posts Tagged ‘Switzerland’
“Call it the blues”
Posted in Music, tagged art, blues, Culture, music, Switzerland on May 10, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Doing the bunny hop
Posted in Animals, tagged agility, Animals, bunny, bunny hopping, Easter, entertainment, rabbit, Switzerland on April 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Spotted this little bunny hopping in somebody's front yard
Just in time for Easter: a video made by Raffaella Rossello, a colleague of mine at swissinfo.ch. She asked me to be the narrator for this piece on rabbits that jump hurdles.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multimedia/video/Hop_bunny,_hop!.html?cid=29972774
One in four shuns religion in Switzerland
Posted in Current affairs, tagged charity, Christianity, church, Culture, religion, Switzerland on April 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Saint Jost's Chapel in Dottenberg near Lucerne
The role of organized religion in Switzerland is an increasingly small one, according to a publically funded study.
Through hundreds of questionnaires as well as dozens of in-depth interviews with individuals across the country, researchers have found that the Swiss population has distanced itself from organized Christianity as well as traditional spirituality in recent decades.
Read the whole story here:
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/One_in_four_shuns_religion_in_Switzerland.html?cid=29877728
People and places
Posted in Current affairs, tagged adoption, business, family, podcasts, politics, Switzerland, Tunisia on March 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Podcast icon courtesy of Colleen AF Venable
The place to be: for many international firms, that’s Switzerland. A place revisited: a political exile revisits Tunisia for the first time in 19 years. Places you wish you’d never been: a woman remembers her painful past.
Click on the link below to listen a recent swissinfo.ch podcast, which I regularly contribute to.
Bern says yes to nuclear power plant
Posted in Environment, tagged energy, Environment, green, nature, nuclear, Switzerland, technology on February 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The nuclear power plant in Mühleberg near Bern opened in 1972.
The people of canton Bern in Switzerland have voted in favor of building a new nuclear power plant in Mühleberg to replace the old one there. Meanwhile, voters in canton Nidwalden reiterated their lack of interest in hosting a nuclear waste repository in Wellenberg. Though non-binding, the recent ballot box results show that nuclear technology remains controversial in Switzerland.
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