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ABE, the Consumer Show
An English translation of the popular consumer TV show A Bon Entendeur, produced by the French-language station TSR. Once a week ABE, as it’s often abbreviated, brings consumers the results of investigations on the quality and safety of products sold in Switzerland.

Afropop Worldwide (PRI)
Connecting Americans to Africa and the World through music

Arts CH
A look ahead at the week in arts and culture

Business Insight
WRS’s Pete Forster examines innovation in Swiss business through interviews with entrepreneurs and company representatives

Click (BBC)
The world of technology across the BBC

The Connectors
Join Catherine Nelson-Pollard and her regular team to share connections that make the expat experience

Cover Story

Every day, a different cover of a well-known song of the week

Dateline CH
BBC foreign correspondent Imogen Foulkes takes a quizzical look at Swiss society

Dig It!
Hester Macdonald brings life to your garden and the garden to your life

Discovery (BBC)
The most significant breakthroughs in science and technology

Documentaries (BBC)
High-impact documentaries on arresting global issues with the BBC’s network of correspondents

Executive Life
Swiss-based executives guide us through the upper echelons of corporate Switzerland

From our own correspondent (BBC)
Personal reflections by BBC correspondents around the world

Food Scout 
Gourmand Amy Eber follows the Swiss food trail.

Fresh Air (NPR)
Terry Gross interviews prominent cultural and entertainment figures on this in-depth weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues.

Gadget Guru
Ian the Gadget Guru helps us make sense of the latest consumer technology… and other stuff

Global Business (BBC)
Peter Day reports on the major trends and personalities shaping business around the world.

Health Matters
Advice for living well… Dr. Michelle Wright addresses your health concerns and questions

The Interview (BBC)
Exploring ideas and trends which shape our world

Kids in Mind
Parenting advice from child psychotherapist Dr. Rachel Melville-Thomas… No jargon, no talking over your head—just good, solid, tested advice

Learning English (BBC)
Improve your English once a week with the BBC

Lunch with WRS

WRS’s Susan Flory shares her lunch hour with Swiss personalities and influential people from beyond our borders who are working here or just passing through.

Motoring On
WRS’s Susan Flory talks to experts about all aspects of motoring in Switzerland from driving efficiently to new technologies and regulations governing the country’s roads

Movie Week

A look at the latest film releases in Swiss cinemas

Newshour (BBC)
News, interviews and analysis of the day’s main events with challenging debate and lively discussion
 
(Not So) Foreign Affairs
Hot spots, flashpoints, tensions, breakthroughs—our panel makes the latest international relations headlines accessible to everyone

One Planet (BBC)
Getting to grips with the major issues and themes in the world of development and the environment

Rewind
A look back at the week’s Swiss political news with journalists from across Switzerland
 
Science in Action (BBC)
From outer space to the inner workings of the human body, find out what’s happening and why it matters

The Shed: A Whole New World of Music (INDIE)
Each week, award-winning former BBC broadcaster Mark Coles brings you his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet—recorded in his shed at the bottom of the garden.

Snow Report
Matthew Leighton brings us updated ski conditions across the country just before the weekend, from December to April.
 
Soundcheck
Laura Leishman brings you the best new music and a few classic favorites that just don’t get enough airtime

Speed Read
Reviewers from Switzerland’s leading English bookshops give us their picks for great reads

Sports Round-Up
A daily look at the latest from the Swiss sporting world

Sportsworld and Sunday Sportsworld (BBC)
Live reports from the world’s major sporting events

Studio 360 (PRI)
A smart and surprising guide to what’s happening in pop culture and the arts with novelist and co-founder of legendary Spy magazine, Kurt Andersen
 
Style File
Style tips, hip hangouts, fashion features and beauty secrets with Hansine Johnston — it’s the ultimate guide to looking and feeling good

The Science Show (ABC)
A weekly science program presented by Robyn Williams, from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, “about ideas, not simply facts or bits of boffinry”

The Strand (BBC)
Your daily journey into global arts, culture and entertainment

The Weekender
Celeste Neill brings you the essential guide to what’s on in Switzerland

The World Today (BBC)
Setting the international agenda for the day

This American Life (PRI)
Every week, Chicago Public Radio’s Ira Glass and his team explore a new theme , threading together news and stories to create one of America’s most popular weekly programmes

Top of the Pops (BBC)
The latest from the UK charts

To the Best of Our Knowledge (TTBOOK) (PRI)
An audio magazine of ideas—two hours of smart, entertaining radio for people with curious minds

View from the South
The Wrap’s Alex Helmick talks to Ticino correspondent Nicole della Pietra about the news making waves in Italian-speaking Switzerland

Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! (NPR)
Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell host the weekly quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities

WireTap (PRI)
Expect the unexpected when you enter the imaginative world of Jonathan Goldstein. Each week he invites you to eavesdrop on conversations with characters imagined by some of radio’s funniest storytellers. Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

World Briefing (BBC)
News and up-to-the-minute reports from correspondents around the world
    

World Business Report    
Business and banter with London-based Henk Potts, of Barclays Wealth, every weekday morning

World Have Your Say (BBC)
A 24-hour-a-day conversation between you and the BBC

World of Music (BBC)
Recordings of the life and musical traditions of communities around the world

The World Today (BBC)
News and up-to-the-minute reports from correspondents around the world

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THE ARCHIVE
WRS is no longer producing the following segments, however you can listen to past episodes here:

The Consultant, Green, It’s the Law, Swiss By Design, Time Capsule, Uncorked