The Naked Swiss, Health Matters - Flu, Infofenster 4 - Translation Services

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8 November, 2016

Journalist and author Clare O'Dea told us about her new book, The Naked Swiss: A Nation Behind 10 Myths, which promises to change the way the world thinks about modern Switzerland. In ten fact-based chapters O'Dea dismantles the most positive myths of modern Switzerland (The Swiss are Rich/Brilliant/Have the Perfect Democracy) with the same sharp journalistic eye she assesses the negative one (The Swiss are Sexist/Xenophobic/Helped the Nazis). O'Dea - ten year veteran at Swissinfo, and now Swiss herself - profiles a Switzerland of the twenty-first century: a Switzerland of working mothers, banks gone bankrupt, and multicultural football teams. Clare O'Dea will be speaking in Basel on 17 November at 7 p.m. at The Narrenschiff Bookstore in Steinentorstrasse 11 - don't miss it! Listen to the interview again here.

 

 

Our health expert Dr. Michelle Wright talks to us about the ‘flu virus: the symptoms of true ‘flu, how we can protect ourselves and others against it, and who should be vaccinated. To find out more, visit www.vaccinateagainsttheflu.ch and look out for National Flu Vaccination Day on 11th November 2016. Listen to the segment again here.

 

 

 

 

 

In the continuing Radio X Infofenster series, we look at life in Switzerland and, more specifically, in Basel. This week's segment: Translation Services!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAFFLE!

You can win a copy of Clare O'Dea's book The Naked Swiss by writing to us at info@theenglishshow.com or on our Facebook page - just comment that you'd like to participate in the raffle! We'll draw the winner in our next show.

 

Our music theme this week was inspired by The Cure's concert in Basel on November 4th - so it's all about 80s darkwave / new wave / gothic rock! We played:

The Cure - A Forest

Demars - Even For All Those Years

Industrie - Secret Affair

Bauhaus - She's In Parties

The Cure - Just Like Heaven

Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Spellbound

Echo And The Bunnymen - The Cutter

Ghost Dance - A Deeper Blue

The Cure - Friday I'm In Love