Family & Kids - Emergencies, Gadget Guru - Facebook's New Currency

Laure Audidière is our Family & Kids contributor, giving you practical tips and tricks on what to do in Basel as a family. Today it's all about emergencies. Laure answers questions like: how do I get urgent help? Where can I get medical advice for adults and children, especially on weekends? Or buy medicine? How can I find a babysitter at short notice? The most important numbers to save in your phone are 144 for the ambulance, 117 for the police and 118 for fire. For all the details and relevant links, check out Laure's segment here.

This week, Ian the Gadget Guru looks at Facebook's decision to launch its own digital currency Libra. Can they avoid the volatility of BitCoin? How will Facebook address its history of lapses in security to ensure the the new currency is a success? Listen to the segment again here.

Our music theme today was male-female duets in the Americana and folk genres. We played:

Casualties of Cool - Mountaintop (Dunlop Sessions) (Devin Townsend and Ché Aimee Dorval)

The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow (Joy Williams and John Paul White)

Ghost & Gale - Rosemary (Brodie Jenkins, David Luning)

Milo Greene - 1957 (Robbie Arnett, Marlana Sheetz)

The Cake Sale - Some Surprise (Gary Lightbody and Lisa Hannigan)

Greg Laswell (feat. Ingrid Michaelson) - Landline

Dresses - Painting Roses (Timothy Heller and Jared Ryan Maldonado)

The Weepies - World Spins Madly On (Deb Talan and Steve Tannen)