Broadcast on: 18 June, 2013

Welcome to the sun, summer has finally arrived in Basel and we started the show with REM and the Undertones:

Ciarán spoke with Sue Style about some of the wonderful bars in Basel. Sue gave tips on where to enjoy summer while enjoying good food and good wine. Her original article was in the FT

 

 

 


Broadcast on: 11 June, 2013

Welcome to The English Show on Radio X - for all the friendly people we met at the Basel Expat Expo.

Another action packed show this week:

Ciaran spoke with Nik Von Frankenberg about Swiss neutrality and its origins.

 


Broadcast on: 4 June, 2013

Welcome to The English Show on Radio X - for all the friendly people we met at the Basel Expat Expo last Sunday.

Another action packed show this week:

Ciaran spoke with Nik Von Frankenberg about Citizen initiated referendums.


Broadcast on: 28 May, 2013

Action-packed show this week! We had guests galore as well as competitions, culture, music, sports and news.

Kiwi Jon talked to Eva Mann about the upcoming Semi-Circle play A Murder is Announced, written by Agatha Christie. The play starts June 7th for 10 performances only, all in English, right here in Basel. Listen to the podcast to find out all about it.

 


Broadcast on: 21 May, 2013

Ciarán spoke with Nik von Frankenberg about the political parties on the left of the Swiss political system: the CVP, SP and the Green Party. With Guy Morin, Basel has one of the few green mayors in Switzerland.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Broadcast on: 14 May, 2013

This week's show is action packed. Find out how to get traditional fish and chips in a traditional English pub The Fish InnJohn Picton, the English pub landlord came in to tell us about why he set up an English pub in Reinach.

Our monthly food guru, Sue Style, came into our Radio X studios to talk about a brilliant wine event in Alsace.


Broadcast on: 7 May, 2013

This week, Ciaran talked to Nik von Frankenberg in part two of a series about the Swiss political system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Broadcast on: 30 April, 2013

This week The English Show team brings you another action-packed show all about our region and upcoming events.

Ciaran talked to local Radio X journalist Nik von Frankenberg about Swiss politics, in his Political Podcast. In a concise way, it explains how politics works in Switzerland.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Broadcast on: 23 April, 2013

This week Kiwi Jon went to Parc Des Eaux Vives in Huningue. If you want to enjoy the joys of white water canoeing, 5 minutes from Basel over the border, then this is the place for you to go this spring and summer.

 

 

 

 


Broadcast on: 16 April, 2013

It's spring! And with it, the ground is covered in Bärlauch, or wild garlic. Wild garlic has always been associated with bears, as witnessed by its Latin, German and French names (Allium ursinum, Bärlauch and ail des ours, respectively). Seems that these hibernating animals are extremely partial to this garlicky member of the allium family, which emerges conveniently from its winter slumbers just as the bears are coming out of theirs.