Broadcast on: 3 February, 2015

Lukas Straumann is the author of the controversial new book Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia. Money Logging investigates the massive destruction of the Borneo rainforest by Malaysian loggers.


Broadcast on: 27 January, 2015

This week, Laura Salvador and Isabelle Valibus of the Professional Women's Group of Basel (PWG) came to the Radio X Studios.


Broadcast on: 20 January, 2015

 

 

 

 


Broadcast on: 13 January, 2015

It's Museums Night 2015 this Friday - always a great event to wander around a museum or ten at 1 in the morning. We talked to Eva Keller of the Cultural Department Basel-Stadt, who is responsible for Museums Night. She told us what Museums Night is, where to go as a family, and how to get from museum to museum.


Broadcast on: 6 January, 2015

Catherine Nisato of Basel Chamber Voices came into the studio this week to tell us about the choir's upcoming


Broadcast on: 30 December, 2014

On the second-to-last day of 2014, The English Show team bring you a special New Year's Show! It's our "lite" version with more music than ever, each song hand-picked by the team as their track of the year. And they are:

Jessie J - Bang Bang

Blonde - I Loved You (feat. Melissa Steel)

Pharrell Williams - Happy

Ed Sheeran - Sing

PRhyme - U Looz

Arctic Monkeys - One For The Road

Lion Babe - Jungle Lady

Mr Probz - Waves

Idina Menzel - Let It Go (from "Frozen")


Broadcast on: 23 December, 2014

We had comedy as well as (winter) depression on this week's show - the whole range of human emotions in one tidy package.


Broadcast on: 16 December, 2014

This week, we talked to the authors of Hoi: Your New Swiss German Survival Guide, Sergio Lievano and Nicole Egger, about the new edition of their book now available. The book is an essential and FUN guide to Swiss German language and culture.


Broadcast on: 9 December, 2014

This week, Toby talked to the English Show's veteran ski correspondent Nic Oatridge about what to expect and where to go this winter.  Nic provided tips on where to find good snow conditions early this season, as it's been a warm, dry start.


Broadcast on: 2 December, 2014

Korby Lenker, an American musical artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, sat down with our intrepid musical adventurist host Joel to discuss his life, music and career. Korby passed through Basel on a House Concert Tour of Europe - where Joel managed to catch his act at a friend's home.