Podcast Episodes

What Covid-19 tells us about the pharma industry

Switzerland is the home of some of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies. But when it comes to coronavirus vaccines, the Swiss pharma giants a…

5 years, 4 months ago

How to catch a child sex offender

The case of a Swiss couple abusing Indian children –  and getting away with it –  shows the limits of the international police network.

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5 years, 5 months ago

Crypto – a spy thriller made in Switzerland

Multiple spy agencies, secret documents, international intrigue, and a Swiss company's encryption machines are at the heart of this episode. But does…

5 years, 5 months ago

Why women's suffrage took so long

Switzerland is celebrating a rather awkward anniversary this year. It was only 50 years ago that women got the right to vote at the federal level. Wh…

5 years, 5 months ago

'Swiss Johnny Cash' Florian Fox walks the line between Zurich and Nashville

Sometimes changing names and continents is the best way to cope in a pandemic. For Swiss country music singer-songwriter Florian Fox, this meant movi…

5 years, 6 months ago

The dirt on digging for gold

Switzerland is the world’s leading gold refiner. But in spite of efforts to make the supply chain more transparent, there are still some big question…

5 years, 6 months ago

Part 3: Why do we get nostalgic?

Part three of a three-part series about the connection between nostalgia and homesickness.  If a friend abandoned you in a foreign country, how angry…

5 years, 7 months ago

Part 2: Why do we get nostalgic?

Part two of a three-part series about the connection between nostalgia and homesickness.  We "meet" a medical student who attended Basel University i…

5 years, 7 months ago

Part 1: Why do we get nostalgic?

Part one of a three-part series about the connection between nostalgia and homesickness.  For this we travel back in time to join two backpackers exp…

5 years, 8 months ago

Moving back to Switzerland in a pandemic

In 2020, getting the kind of schooling you want for your kids sometimes meant moving halfway across the world, at the drop of a hat. Meet a Swiss wom…

5 years, 8 months ago