Health Matters - Sleep Walking, Rob Stuart, Fitting Wines - Gamay
Dr Michelle Wright is joined by sleep specialist Dr Susan Higgins who works in a dedicated sleep clinic in Annecy, France. In this segment, they discuss sleep walking - why some people sleep walk, should you wake a person up and can you grow out of it? Listen to the segment again here.
Our cinema expert Rob Stuart came into the studio to talk about the summertime openairs with two cinema festivals hosted by Solair 17-20 July, and Allianz on Münsterplatz from 28 July into late August. Then there's Studio Central and Stadtkino on holiday till the end of next month. Over at the Capitol you can be treated to Ice Age action and animation: the comedy movie Ice Age: Collision Course (5th in the series) with Ray Romano and Simon Pegg. Pathé Küchlin is showing the new Alice in Wonderland: Beyond the Mirror with Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska. The Rex, Pathe Kuchlin and Kult.Kino have some interesting offerings coming in the next weeks as well.
In this month's Wine Show, Simon Hardy of fittingwines.com reveals all you need to know about the Gamay grape variety. Gamay is the second most planted black grape variety in Switzerland after Pinot Noir and is most commonly associated with the Beaujolais region of France. Learn more about this much maligned variety as you may end up enjoying some of the better wines made with the Gamay grape in Switzerland. Listen to the segment again here.
This week's Gurtenfestival in Bern sees the likes of Muse, James Bay and Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls performing to the crowds. To give you a taste of what's ahead at the festival, we played songs by Gurtenfestival artists:
James Bay - Best Fake Smile
Bastille - Good Grief
Jeremy Loops (feat. Motheo Moleko) - Down South
Frank Turner - Love Forty Down
Pablopolar - Family History
Travis - 3 Miles High
The Lumineers - Ho Hey
Muse - Mercy
Michael Kiwanuka - One More Night
Yokko - Talk
Anna Kaenzig - Get Out
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - I Need Never Get Old
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