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Time Capsule

Due to programming changes, WRS is no longer producing Time Capsule.


Natasha Proietto joins Conor Lennon to sweep us momentarily back in time to key moments in Swiss history.

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Time Capsule: Switzerland and the Reformation
Tuesday, 5 January, 2010In the first of a mini-series on Switzerland and relgion, Natasha Proietto takes us through how the Reformation shaped religion and the religious debate in Switzerland. And vice versa.
A view of the Reformation Wall with statues of (from left) Guillaume Farel, Jean Calvin, Theodore de Beze and John Knox at Bastion Park in Geneva. Calvin was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. (KEYSTONE/Salvatore Di Nolfi)
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Time Capsule: Swiss Christmas traditions
Tuesday, 22 December, 2009Natasha Proietto explores some of the traditions associated with the Christmas festive period in Switzerland.
Swiss runners, dressed in Santa Claus costumes take part in the 4rd edition of the Christmas Midnight Run, in Lausanne, Switzerland, late Saturday, December 19, 2009. Around 400 persons, dressed up as Santa Clauses participated in the 2.5 kilometer (1.5 miles) run through the old part of the city of Lausanne, in western Switzerland. (KEYSTONE/Dominic Favre)
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Time Capsule: Building Switzerland's transport
Tuesday, 15 December, 2009Few people make footfall in Switzerland without commenting on the remarkable public transport infrastructure, from smooth roads to unfeasible rail routes that corkscrew high into the Alps. Natasha Proietto concludes her mini-series on the development of technology in Switzerland by exploring the history of Switzerland’s connections.
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Time Capsule: History on the banks of the lake
Tuesday, 8 December, 2009Natasha Proietto begins a series exploring history as it played out along the shores of Switzerland’s lakes, with a visit from a famous British physician who numbered King Edward VII and Joseph Merrick - otherwise known as the ’Elephant Man’ - among his clients.
Sunset over the Geneva Lake in Lausanne, western part of Switzerland, Friday, December 4, 2009. (KEYSTONE/Dominic Favre)
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Time Capsule: A history of spying in Switzerland
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009Natasha Proietto enters the secretive world of spying, and shines a light on the rich history of espionage in Switzerland.
The Mossad's spy, right, hidden by Swiss policemen enters to the Swiss Federal Tribunal, in Lausanne, Switzerland, on June 3, 2000. The Swiss Federal Court's sentenced on an Israeli secret service agent caught red-handed trying to install wire-tap equipment at a Bern residence, in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Friday, July 7, 2000. The Court sentenced the self confessed Mossad's spy to one-year suspended prison and barred him from entering the country for five years after finding him guilty of political espionage, illegal acts for a foreign state and entering the country under a false name. (KEYSTONE/Fabrice Coffrini) === ELECTRONIC IMAGE ===
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Time Capsule: Swiss press in the Nazi era
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009Natasha Proietto considers the Swiss media’s coverage of the rise of Nazism in neighbouring Germany.
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Time Capsule: Swiss cinema and theatre
Tuesday, 17 November, 2009Swiss cinema, it turns out, got its footing in the tourism industry. Natasha Proietto has the history:
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Time Capsule: Photography in the National Museum
Tuesday, 10 November, 2009Conor Lennon and Natasha Proietto are live this week from Zurich, focusing on an exhibition of photography at the Swiss National Museum.
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Time Capsule: Museum of Communications, Bern
Tuesday, 3 November, 2009Conor Lennon and Natasha Proietto continue their survey of Swiss tecnhology, this week with a focus on communications technology.
Time Capsule: Radio comes to Switzerland
Tuesday, 27 October, 2009The first Swiss radio broadcast—the TSF, or transmetteur sans fil—was broadcast from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. These early broadcasts, in the 1920s, involved mainly weather and programs such as a history program of traditional Swiss costumes. Natasha Proietto has more details and brings us into the age of television.
In 1925, these children in Sweden listen to a home radio built by their father. (Photo courtesy of Britt-Marie Sohlström)
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Time Capsule: Inside the mind of Carl Jung
Tuesday, 20 October, 2009Natasha Proietto explores the life and legacy of Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, considering his rather ambigious political position during World War 2 and his far-reaching influence on modern popular culture.
In this Nov. 28, 2007 photo released by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., a page from Carl Jung's Red Book is shown. The 16-year record of Carl Jung's personal journey into his unconscious will go on display at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York from Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009 and through Monday, Jan. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.) NO SALES
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Time Capsule: Red Book shines a light on Jung
Tuesday, 13 October, 2009The publication of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung’s ’Red Book’ recently has provided an opportunitity to revisit his theories, as Natasha Proietto does here.
In this Nov. 28, 2007 photo released by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., a page from Carl Jung's Red Book is shown. The 16-year record of Carl Jung's personal journey into his unconscious will go on display at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York from Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009 and through Monday, Jan. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.) NO SALES
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Time Capsule: Swiss myth and tradition, part 4
Tuesday, 6 October, 2009Natasha Proietto takes a look at some of the myths and superstitions that pervade Swiss life to the present day.
Am Alten Silvester, am Samstag 12. Januar 2008, sind in der Naehe von Waldstatt, AR, ein Schuppel schoener Silvesterchlaeuse unterwegs. Der alte Silvester waere eigentlich am 13. Januar, weil der dieses Jahr auf einen Sonntag faellt wurde heute geklaust. Die Klausengruppen, eingeteilt in wueste, schoe-wueste und schoene sind den ganzen Tag unterwegs von Haus zu Haus , in einem Schuppel aus mehreren Klaeusen. Sie stellen sich vor einem Bauernhaus auf und stimmen ein Zaeuerli an, sie schellen gewaltig und das Ganze wird dreimal wiederholt. Dann wuenschen die Klaeuse ein gutes neues Jahr, erhalten etwas zu trinken und oft ein Geldgeschenk. Equipped with cow bells and beautifully crafted mask these so-called Silvesterchlaeuse (New Years Clauses) walk from house to house in Waldstatt, Switzerland, on Saturday, January 12, 2008, to offer their best wishes for the New Year to the farmers in this region. After their performance of singing and dancing the Silvesterchlaeuse receive food, hot drinks or money. (KEYSTONE/Alessandro Della Bella)
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Time Capsule: Swiss myth and tradition, part 3
Wednesday, 30 September, 2009Natasha Proietto has more Swiss myths and traditions.
Am Alten Silvester, am Samstag 12. Januar 2008, sind in der Naehe von Waldstatt, AR, ein Schuppel schoener Silvesterchlaeuse unterwegs. Der alte Silvester waere eigentlich am 13. Januar, weil der dieses Jahr auf einen Sonntag faellt wurde heute geklaust. Die Klausengruppen, eingeteilt in wueste, schoe-wueste und schoene sind den ganzen Tag unterwegs von Haus zu Haus , in einem Schuppel aus mehreren Klaeusen. Sie stellen sich vor einem Bauernhaus auf und stimmen ein Zaeuerli an, sie schellen gewaltig und das Ganze wird dreimal wiederholt. Dann wuenschen die Klaeuse ein gutes neues Jahr, erhalten etwas zu trinken und oft ein Geldgeschenk. Equipped with cow bells and beautifully crafted mask these so-called Silvesterchlaeuse (New Years Clauses) walk from house to house in Waldstatt, Switzerland, on Saturday, January 12, 2008, to offer their best wishes for the New Year to the farmers in this region. After their performance of singing and dancing the Silvesterchlaeuse receive food, hot drinks or money. (KEYSTONE/Alessandro Della Bella)
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Time Capsule: Switzerland meets General Suvorov
Tuesday, 22 September, 2009In the week that Russian President Dmitri Medvedev lead tributes at a monument to General Suvorov in the Schoellenen canyon near Andermatt, Natasha Proietto recounts the story of the great general, who played an important role in Switzerland’s Napoleonic campaign.
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev attends a wreath laying ceremony at the Suvorov memorial, at Schoellenen canyon near Andermatt in Central Switzerland September 22, 2009. Medvedev is on a two-day state visit to Switzerland. REUTERS/Fabrice Coffrini/POOL (SWITZERLAND POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)