Strange days: checking in with Swiss people in America
Send us Fan Mail The past year has been a strange time for all of us. It can be even harder if you’re an expat. One in ten Swiss people lives outside of Switzerland. In this episode, we hear from a fe...
27 Apr 202117min
What Covid-19 tells us about the pharma industry
Send us Fan Mail Switzerland is the home of some of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies. But when it comes to coronavirus vaccines, the Swiss pharma giants are not part of the discussion. How...
13 Apr 202119min
How to catch a child sex offender
Send us Fan Mail The case of a Swiss couple abusing Indian children – and getting away with it – shows the limits of the international police network. SWI swissinfo.ch is a public service media comp...
30 Mar 202122min
Crypto – a spy thriller made in Switzerland
Send us Fan Mail Multiple spy agencies, secret documents, international intrigue, and a Swiss company's encryption machines are at the heart of this episode. But does anybody really know the whole sto...
16 Mar 202123min
Why women's suffrage took so long
Send us Fan Mail 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. What was the hold-up? And what’s sti...
2 Mar 202129min
'Swiss Johnny Cash' Florian Fox walks the line between Zurich and Nashville
Send us Fan Mail Sometimes changing names and continents is the best way to cope in a pandemic. For Swiss country music singer-songwriter Florian Fox, this meant moving to Nashville, Tennessee. He tel...
16 Feb 202131min
The dirt on digging for gold
Send us Fan Mail 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 questions about the origins of all this go...
2 Feb 202118min
Part 3: Why do we get nostalgic?
Send us Fan Mail 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 would you be? And how healthy is ...
19 Jan 202124min
