Articles: #geneva

Swiss Up Food Parcels (12 May 2020)
Swiss Up!
On this week's Swiss Up! Dario looks at the food handouts to the needy last weekend - and why the queues in Geneva went worldwide - but similar operations in Zurich, Bern and Basel seemingly we...
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The International University in Geneva - get two degrees in one
The Breakfast Show
The International University in Geneva has a wide range of courses and an opportunity to earn two degrees at the same time due to a link with the University of Plymouth in the UK. Mark Butcher spea...
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Geneva based Liz speaks about her infection of Covid-19
The Breakfast Show
Liz lives in Geneva and tested positive for the coronavirus. She speaks to Mark and Katt about her experience, how the testing process works, how she tries to protect her family - and the weird exp...
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Andy Cohen on his film Beijing Spring (2020)
Mid Morning Mix
Filmmaker, and Geneva local, Andy Cohen talks about his film Beijing Spring, which chronicles China’s first democracy movement and forgotten struggle for freedom of expression. The film ...
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GEDS - The Great Gatsby
Mid Morning Mix
The Geneva English Drama Society perform The Great Gatsby on the 25 - 29 February 2020 at the Théâtre Pitoëff in Geneva. Directed by Christina Vasala Kokkinaki, the show brings...
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Dechen - Tibetan mantras from Switzerland
Mid Morning Mix
Dechen Shak-Dagsay began singing tradutional Tibetan mantras with modern melodies 20 years ago. Her music is soft, meditative and calm, even trance-like at times. Her most recent album has introduc...
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Rachel Gordy on Louis(e)
Mid Morning Mix
Louis(e) is a theatrical biography of the artist Louise Bourgeois - a brilliant artist, who lived to the great age of 98 and who is particularly known for her bronze sculptures of enormous spiders,...
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Extinction Rebellion - Abigael offers insight ahead of Geneva action
Mid Morning Mix
Abigael from Extinction Rebellion joins me to explain the 3 demands and 10 principles of Extinction Rebellion.
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Bernard Trontin talks Bowie & Le Fanfareduloup Orchestra
Mid Morning Mix
This Thursday & Friday, the Fanfareduloup Orchestra will take on the music of David Bowie for a two-night run of their show SOUND & VISION. The show will be a homage to Bowie and an inte...
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Antigel 2020 - music, zombies and much more
Mid Morning Mix
The 10th edition of Antigel is upon us! Katt finds out what's in store across the 3 week multi-disciplinary festival in Geneva, from Festival Director Eric Linder...
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Where blockchain & healthcare meet - with Dr Alex Cahana
Mid Morning Mix
The 2nd edition of the Geneva Blockchain Congress takes place today at Palexpo. The 2020 Geneva Blockchain Congre...
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Black Movie is back for 2020
Mid Morning Mix
Black Movie International Independent Film Festival takes place this 17-26 January 2020 in Geneva.
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Mozart's Don Giovanni by the Vienna State Opera
Mid Morning Mix
Caecilia Concert Agency presents the orchestra, choir and cast of the Vienna State Opera on the 12 December 2019. This concert is a unique performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. It’s ...
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Specialist underwear for breast cancer in Geneva
The Breakfast Show
Most of us will almost certainly know someone - friends or family - fighting against breast cancer. And it can be quite a daunting prospect, having treatment in a foreign country, a different la...
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Henry Lawton - Velodrome
Mid Morning Mix
4 Jours a Genève is a velodrome event that takes place at La Queue d'Arve Sports Centre in Geneva on the 21-24 November 2019. Competitor Henry Lawton explains the even...
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Fight for Humanity at Geneva Peace Week
Mid Morning Mix
We talk to Co-Founder of Fight for Humanity Anki Sjöberg about Geneva Peace Week and the events they're organising and participating in this week. Geneva Peace Week is open to the ...
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Want to try out as a stand-up comic?
Mid Morning Mix
There are an increasing number of opportunities for English-speakers across Switzerland to try their hand at stand-up comedy. We spoke to Clinton Starghill, organiser of a monthly open...
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Jonathan Nott talks 'provocative' classical music at OSR
Mid Morning Mix
Jonathan Nott is the Music & Artistic Director at the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande (OSR). He talks to Katt Cullen on the Mid Morning Mix about making classical music provocative and why music...
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Murderet - improvised murder mystery at the Fête du Théâtre
Mid Morning Mix
Let the Murderet troupe take you to an improvised murder mystery journey entirely made up on the spot! During this one-hour show, the performers will create a fictional crime story full of secrets ...
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The Red Cross Ball 2019
Mid Morning Mix
The Red Cross Ball 2019 takes place on the 12 October 2019. It's the main fundraising event for the Swiss Read Cross in Geneva and this year the committee is aiming to raise CHF 1m for cause...
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Fondation Bodmer - War & Peace exhibition
Mid Morning Mix
Fondation Bodmer in Geneva, with the UN and the Red Cross, presents War And Peace: an exhibition of literature, photographs, propaganda, and archives highlighting our belligerent nature, yet our lo...
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GEDS - Disgraced
Mid Morning Mix
Jaimie Guerra and John Ward join us in the WRS studio to talk about 'Disgraced' the Pulitzer prize-winning play they're staring in next week, put on by the Geneva English Drama Society....
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A big change to Geneva public transport is coming
Mid Morning Mix
Starting on December 15th the new rail network, the Léman Express, starts. It's being described as the new public transport backbone for the Geneva region. 230km of lines, 45 st...
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