Professional Women's Group Basel, Best Sights To See - Basel's City Gates

This week, Laura Salvador and Isabelle Valibus of the Professional Women's Group of Basel (PWG) came to the Radio X Studios. The organization, which has been supporting the professional goals and endeavors of women in the Basel area for over 15 years, will be hosting its annual main event on February 11th. The volunteer group provides networking, skill building and entrepreneurial support in a friendly English-speaking environment with over 160 members from 50 different countries. Listen to the interview again here.

  Isabelle Valibus

                           Laura Salvador

Our Basel tour guide Madeleine Wamister told us about one of the Best Sights To See in Basel: the Spalentor city gate - as well as the other gates still standing. The original seven gates have shrunk down to three, but all of them are well worth a look in all their medieval splendour.

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Our music theme this week was classical music within pop music. Modern-day musicians have always been inspired by and/or have liberally borrowed from classical music's repertoire - and here are just a few of those tunes:

John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts (Rachmaninov - Prelude in C sharp minor)

Jem - They (Bach - Prelude in F minor)

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - In The Hall Of The Mountain King (Grieg - In The Hall Of The Mountain King)

Muse - Plug-In Baby (Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor)

Mika - Grace Kelly (Rossini - The Barber of Seville, "Largo Al Factotum")

Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Bach - Air on a G string and "Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe", BWV156)

Sting - Russians (Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kijé, "Romance")

Queen - It's A Hard Life (Leoncavallo - Pagliacci, "Vesti La Giubba")

Bright Eyes - Road To Joy (Beethoven - 9th Symphony, "Ode To Joy")