World Radio Switzerland

WRS

WRS is the only mainstream English-language radio station in Switzerland.

  • 4 minutes 33 seconds
    Health Matters: COVID Vaccine update (10 Feb 2021)
    Listen in to Dr Michelle’s latest COVID vaccine update – what’s new here in Switzerland, how are the new COVID variants spreading and what is the COVAX programme aiming to achieve?
    11 February 2021, 9:00 am
  • 5 minutes 30 seconds
    How Jim's British Market is coping with Brexit
    While Brexit causes havoc for many companies in the UK – it has also opened opportunities for others. The British expat food shop, Jim’s British Market in Gland initially struggled to get products from the UK into the EU’s single market – of which Switzerland is a member. While the teething problems are being figured out, Chris Anderson who’s in charge of importing for Jim’s says they’ve been imaginative. www.jbmarket.ch
    10 February 2021, 8:38 am
  • 8 minutes 20 seconds
    Swiss Up: Appenzell Women getting the vote in 1990! (9 February 2021)
    On this week's Swiss Up! Dario looks at how women got the vote in canton Appenzell Innerrhoden and the woman who almost singlehandedly drove to the issue to the Federal Court - Theresia Rhoner.
    9 February 2021, 8:17 am
  • 7 minutes 40 seconds
    UN Roundup - Mark Lowcock steps down as UN’s Emergency Relief Chief
    UN Roundup - Mark Lowcock steps down as UN’s Emergency Relief Chief by WRS
    8 February 2021, 9:20 am
  • 33 minutes 51 seconds
    McKay Interview: Michael Moller - GESDA (8 February 2021)
    Michael McKay's guest is Michael Møller, known to many of you as the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva up until a year or so ago. Well, you cannot keep a good and energetic man down! And he has re-emerged as one of the principal leaders of this new organisation that I mentioned which is called the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator Foundation. Quite a mouthful to say. And so, for short, they call themselves GESDA.
    8 February 2021, 5:50 am
  • 7 minutes 20 seconds
    Health Matters Zoe's Story (3 February 2021)
    Marking World Cancer Day, Dr Michelle talks to Zoe Zenklusen Payne about her personal story living with metastatic breast cancer. They discuss what led Zoe to set up Simply Zoe to provide women with beautiful, elegant yet functional items to help them through their breast cancer treatment and recovery and also the Fearless Movement that Zoe has launched to raise awareness and funds on World Cancer Day. Find out more: https://www.simplyzoe.ch/news/2021/1/13/fearless-on-world-cancer-day https://www.simplyzoe.ch/
    3 February 2021, 12:16 pm
  • 6 minutes 31 seconds
    Nelly Bettens on the crocodile siblings she's studying in Geneva
    Nelly Bettens on the crocodile siblings she's studying in Geneva by WRS
    3 February 2021, 8:50 am
  • 5 minutes 34 seconds
    IUG Open Day
    IUG Open Day by WRS
    2 February 2021, 11:10 am
  • 8 minutes 49 seconds
    Swiss Up: 50th Anniversary of Women Votes (2 February 2021)
    It was this month in 1971 the (male) Swiss voters finally agreed to allow women to vote and stand in Federal Elections. Dario looks at why it took so long - and many efforts - to bring in votes for women.
    2 February 2021, 8:33 am
  • 6 minutes 18 seconds
    UN Roundup - Libyan Dialogue, Central African Republic displacement , WHO update
    UN Roundup - Libyan Dialogue, Central African Republic displacement , WHO update by WRS
    1 February 2021, 9:20 am
  • 6 minutes 25 seconds
    Antigel - a fight for culture and the Antigel run
    Antigel - a fight for culture and the Antigel run by WRS
    29 January 2021, 9:56 am
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