Basel Panto, Nathalie Frossard, Archive, Health Spot # 2.1 - Addiction & Mental Health

This year's Basel Panto is Young King Arthur. This is the panto version of one of the oldest British legends, the fight between King Arthur the king of light and King Melwas the king of darkness for the Queen Guinevere, or in this story Gwyneth. Writer and director Richard Brown came into the studio to give us the details.

Our Arts Correspondent Kevin Richmond talked to Nathalie Frossard when he visited the Kernzone Binningen. Nathalie talks about what the Kernzone does to support performing artists in the area, and about The Advent Calendar Performances happening in the coming month. Listen to the interview again here.

Archive are more than a band, they're a collective of musicians with a twenty-year history and an ever-evolving sound, from trip-hop to electronica to prog rock and more. Founders and producers Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths are the Archive bedrock, with Dave Pen, Pollard Berrier, Maria Q and Holly Martin taking over vocal duties. They've released ten studio albums - most recently Restriction in January 2015, which was followed by a tour that had its last stop in Basel on November 8th. Anna talked to singer and guitarist Pollard Berrier about tour buses, creativity, and plans for the future. Listen to the interview again here.

The English Show is proud to participate in Radio X's 'Gesundheitsspots'. This is a series of short public service announcements designed to demystify Swiss health services in the listener's native language. This week's spot gives an overview over addiction and mental health. To listen to it again, click here.

This week's music theme was chillwave. We played:

Neon Indian - Polish Girl

Niva - Dirty Water

Ariel Pink - Put Your Number In My Phone

MillionYoung - Youthless

Casa del Mirto - The Sun

Small Black - Panthers

Pictureplane - Technomancer

Toro Y Moi - Leave Everywhere

Archive - You Make Me Feel

Work Drugs - Rad Racer