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The Wrap
Weekdays from 16.30 to 18.30
with Conor Lennon
It’s the end of the day. You’re heading home after a hard shift in the office or taking a breather after chasing the kids all day. Join Conor Lennon and the WRS team to find out who or what’s been making the news in Switzerland. The Wrap brings you stories and interviews from across the country. It puts the spotlight on the day’s events and takes a look at what lies ahead. Whose face will be gracing tomorrow’s front pages? Which films are out this week? Where should I go this weekend?
The Wrap: the name says it all.
Friday, 12 March, 2010
Juan Canales from Geneva’s from Payot bookshop at Chantepoulet brings us books with great stories from times long past:
- Travelling Heroes by Robin Lane Fox
- The Ides: Caesar’s Murder and the War for Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
- Barbarians: An Alternative Roman History by Terry Jones and Alan Ereira
Friday, 12 March, 2010In the first of a new four-part series, Dr. Ruxandra Stoicescu aims to give us a more global picture of modern international affairs:
Thursday, 11 March, 2010What steps can teenagers educated in Switzerland—and their parents—take to help ensure they’re accepted into universities in North America or the UK? WRS’s Susan Flory and Catherine Nelson-Pollard bring on some expert help:
Wednesday, 10 March, 2010Celeste Duvoisin tells us about the annual charity event in the Swiss resort of Klosters which is coming up this weekend, from March 14-17:
Tuesday, 9 March, 2010Natasha Proietto brings us the fascinating life story of Albert Gallatin and other well-known Swiss who left for the Americas:
Thursday, 4 March, 2010This week, Jennifer Davies joins the WRS team in Basel to look at why the city is considered a hothouse for architecture. She hears from international architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron whose offices are based there and is joined live by the Linda Cassens Stoian, an expert from the Swiss Architecture Museum. Plus there’s a preview of cultural events from around the country for the week ahead.
Wednesday, 3 March, 2010We’re in Basel and we’re putting Big Pharma on the examination table. Is the industry at the forefront of health advancement or a greedy profiteering machine? Pharmaceuticals have been up against some pretty serious charges of late. Plus a look at how it really affects health care prices—and how did Basel come to be synonymous with the pharmaceutical industry anyway? WRS’s Conor Lennon brings to the table our reporter Vincent Landon, Andreas Möckli from Basler Zeitung, Robert Derham from Biovalley Basel and Patrick Durisch from corporate watchdog agency Berne Declaration.
Wednesday, 3 March, 2010
In a “Live from Basel” edition of Movie Week, WRS’s Conor Lennon talks to Michael Sennhauser, film critic for Schweizer Radio DRS, about Roman Polanski’s much anticipated film ”The Ghost Writer.” The director is said to have finished the final edits of his latest work from his prison cell in Switzerland.
In addition, the director of the Tinguely Museum, Roland Wetzel, talks about the famous sculptors experimentation with abstract film and kinetic art as shown in the exhibit “Le Mouvement. From Cinma to Kinetics” in part two of Movie Week.
Monday, 1 March, 2010Business consultant Michael Dillhyon is back from Australia, where the economy has a refreshing air of optimism. That’s right, they claim their biggest challenge is managing economic expansion (well, that and getting Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to play nice with his neighbors):
Monday, 1 March, 2010Dr. Ruxandra Stoicescu explains these agreements for which Basel is best known in the international relations community:
