Interior Design - Finding Your Style, Dr. Rosie - Skin Cancer, Braswell Arts Center, Expat Expo Interviews

We’re continuing our interior design series, with lots of tips and tricks on how to create your own sanctuary - your dream home away from home. Our expert is the award-winning Interior Designer and Blogger Simone Aïda Baur, founder of Global Inspirations Design. In this episode, Simone talked about finding the right style for your home. Listen to the segment again here.

Simone has an interior design workshop coming up on June 24th in Basel. The workshop is one whole day of advice, tips and tricks and costs CHF 650.-. If you'd like to get a CHF 50.- discount to the workshop, you have until 48 hours after this week's English Show to enter the code "RadioX" when you buy your ticket online, or by mentioning "RadioX" when emailing workshop@globalinspirationsdesign.com. If you'd like to win a free spot at the workshop, then send in your most burning interior design questions on Facebook by June 12th. What’s your design dilemma? You'll enter the prize draw for the workshop - and your question will be answered in an upcoming episode!

Our health expert Dr. Naresh Rosie Chauhan ("Dr. Rosie") is a medical doctor who trained in the NHS in the UK and later in the United States. Her specialty is internal medicine, rheumatology, and aesthetics. This week, Dr. Rosie talked about skin cancer, which is the most common form of cancer. It usually occurs through sun exposure or sunbed use, affecting, for example, the face, neck, back of your shoulders or back of your hands. The usual suspects are basal cell carcinoma, which doesn't usually spread; squamous cell carcinoma; and the least common, but the most serious, melanoma. The warning signs can be detected in the topmost layer of the skin, but aren't necessarily glaring: lumps, bumps, pain, bleeding, scaling, distinctive ulcers and of course changing moles. Treatment can include surgery or radiation and chemotherapy. The mainstay of prevention is sunscreen, which also prevents skin damage, and premature aging. SPF 15 may prevent up to 93 percent of UVB rays. SPF 30 offers a protection rate of 97 percent. SPF 50 protects 98 percent. Avoid the most intense sun rays between 10 am and 2 pm, and reapply sunscreen liberally throughout the day, AND, of course, if you notice any changes to your skin and especially moles, see your physician as soon as possible! Listen to the interview again here.

Lisa & Armando Braswell from The Braswell Arts Center (BAC) were also in the studio along with Madrid based artist/painter Pedro Martin Rojo.  In the lead-up to Art Basel, Pedro is the artist-in-residence at the BAC. In addition to working on his canvases, he will be leading painting workshops for kids until June 8. On June 11 at 18:00, Pedro will be having his opening at the BAC, and the exhibition will be open until the 16th: stop by from 12:00-14:00 to see live painting, 18:00 auction, and 19:00 live performance, EVERY DAY! Best of all, 20% of all sales during the event go to "BAC Kids", a program of the Braswell Arts Center benefitting disadvantaged children.   Stop by, even if you just happen to be walking past, to see the amazing things happening at the BAC. Listen to the interview again here.

A big thank you to everyone who stopped by at the Expat Expo 2018 on May 27th and agreed to be interviewed! We had Clare and Kate from the UK, Donna from Hong Kong, and Lindsy from the US on the show tonight, talking about their expat experience and what they like to do in Basel.

Our music theme this week was 70s glam rock! We played:

T.Rex - Bang A Gong Get It On

Mud - Dynamite

Mott The Hoople - The Golden Age Of Rock'n'Roll

Brian Eno - Needle In The Camel's Eye

Roxy Music - Virginia Plain

Queen - Killer Queen

Lou Reed - Vicious

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night

Alice Cooper - School's Out

David Bowie - Rebel Rebel