Podcasts 4 Brainport, featured by Radio 4 Brainport, 747AM and DAB+

Choosing a career path? Settling abroad? Finding the right kind of work? Do you find yourselves lost in these questions and need support, guidance to help you work in the right direction? We have a learned guest on our Tea-Talk show, Heidi Los, Career Coach and Cultural Trainer, and founder of DESIGN YOUR OWN FUTURE. Heidi Los has coached numerous Expat Partners, over the past years, with great enthusiasm and success. She provides career coaching, training, and group workshops. She is widely appreciated for her eagerness to help you find the relevant answers to the questions you have been juggling for quite some time.

Karry and Supriya Vij for Radio 4 Brainport on May 21, international tea day 2021

Healing Mind, Body, And spirit: In today's fast-paced and goal-oriented world, stress is inevitable. This week let's deep dive into exploring the secrets to a healthy and vibrant body by choosing self-care. To know more about improving your spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional health, Our Tea-talk with Karishma & Supriya on Friday, May 14  on http://Radio4brainport.org. Learn about the art of living, breathing techniques, kundalini yoga, and physiotherapy from our learned guests Poonam Nair & Kine Berg.

Every year, Muslims observe the holy month of Ramadan, a month of fasting, prayer, reflection and giving back to community. Eid al-Fitr, meanwhile, marks the end of Ramadan and it is the most important holiday for the religion. We discussed the meaning of Ramadan and what it means to practice Islam during the Holy Month. Moreover, we also touched upon how Eid is celebrated with friends and families, also during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Thought-through and felt-through impressive poems in times that we are flooded by an overload of superficial blurbs on social media?......  Well, we noticed a great interest in Chaitali Sengupta's writings.

A journalist by profession, a financial analyst, a translator, a language teacher, and also a writer, she has many feathers in her cap. Chaitali was on air with Radio 4 Brainport to tell us what she's been up to lately and how her journey has led her to write her first book, Cross-Stitched Words.

A program by Karishma Vij, Stephen Harianto and Jean-Paul Linnartz

Blue is song, Yellow is music, Green is dance, Red is beauty , White is peace and Pink is for joy “. With this colourful quote, your host and dost, Karishma and Limi welcome you all to our Holi special show only on Radio4brainport.org. Holi is a Hindu festival celebrated annually around the month of March and in combination of spring festival. It is celebrated in almost all of India and by all Hindus around the world.

Holi is New Year’s Celebration according to the Hindu Calendar. This festival marks the end of winter and beginning of spring. Before we introduce you to our tonight’s guests , we would like to tell you all the significance of the celebration. Holi is New Year’s Celebration according to the Hindu Calendar. It is especially important for the farmers. In India it is around this time of the year , farmers celebrate their good harvest.

Holi celebrations begin the night before, when bonfires are lit to cleanse the air of evil spirits , and to celebrate to the death of the evil demon "Holika" after whom the festival is named. Last but not the least this festival symbolizes the victory of good over evil, of light over darkness, and of knowledge over ignorance.

Karishma Vij and Limi Kalapurachal welcome our guests: Prachi Aggarwal – founder of PraRoop Events and Holi Fusion festival and Roshni Suresh - President of the Indian student’s association.  

In this podcast, we removed music from radio show. The Full show is at : https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-van-eint/holi-festival-of-colors-is-not-exclusive-to-india-spring-greetings-from-eindhoven/  

Internationals enjoy making music together, already for many years. In COVID times that may not be easy but nonetheless we see an active organisation that brings together internationals: Music with Strangers.

With The Sound of Eindhoven, "This is Eindhoven" challenges musicians and producers to create an anthem or soundtrack as an ode to the city. On Radio 4 Brainport, we contacted internationals who you live here and have a strong connection with the city and who joined the competition. Enrique Cruz created an Eindhoven Anthem, that is a tribute to the city that appreciates in so many aspects. Alex Furnica and Mohsen Mehrafrouz have chosen "The City of Light" as a title, to reflect the multi-cultural society, the many nationalities.

On April 2, we celebrate the World Autism Awareness Day. But there are many spectrums of autism. While Brainport Eindhoven is the smartest city, with the largest number of patents per inhabitant, it is also a city with relatively many people that are "on the spectrum". That seems more that sheer coincidence: There may well be a correlation between prevalence of autism and "systemizers: who have an urge to understand how systems work. And that thrives well in cities with many centers of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)?

On April 27, 2021, we had three wonderful guests to help us guide through the colorful and bright side of autism. First, Dr. Barry Prizant, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, who received widespread recognition and many honors in his career. He is an invited speaker at the UN for World Autism Awareness Day back in 2013. Our second guest, Teddy Lytle, an Associate Artistic Director of Spectrum Theatre Company, a Neurodiverse Theatre Company in US. Our third guest is a very enthusiastic mum Tally Nothey from London, who calls herself as Accidental Hero and is working on a lot of Autism Awareness activities in UK.

This podcast is a recording of a program on Radio4Brainport.org, hosted by Karishma Vij and Jean-Paul Linnartz. Chaitali Sengupta summarizes the impact of autism in a dedicated poem. 

With Thijs van Son, we look forward to the celebration of King's Day 2021. A day full of innovative online events. A highlight will be the automobile parade, ranging from historic DAF cars to the record winning Stella to the innovative solar-powered Lightyear. King Willem Alexander himself will drive a reworked Daffodil designed by Michelotti and with 750 cc air-cooled engine with Variomatic CVT transmission. A car that was in the possession of the Royal Family for a long time and used in Italy, but is now with the DAF Museum.  

With longer daylight, we look forward to a warmer and beautiful summer when we (hopefully) can once again go on a city trip. Our guest today is Hilbert de Wal, city guide and cultural expert with via-cultura.nl. The common theme today are the historic places that commemorate Carolus Magnus or Charles the Great or Charlemagne, the 'founder' of Europe. The springs and the Dom in Aachen, the unspoilt industrial heritage of Liege, fortifications and cathedrals in Maastricht. Why was Aachen in the early medieval far more important as a city than Maastricht or Liege with their strategic location on the river? What was Charlemagne's greatest innovation? He is seen as the inventor of education.     

A global shortage of microelectronic ICs, .. what does it mean for you and for the region? Our guest is an expert in making IC: Prof. Peter Baltus. With all these uncertainties, we like to hear how IC's are made, why we need foundries, what can we do here in the Eindhoven region, and what can we not do? 

A global shortage of semiconductor chips is raising fear for disruptions to the supply of electronic chips.  The shortage has been causing delays in everything from cars and televisions to video game consoles and smartphones. Just to name a few: Apple's production of iPhone 12 was disrupted due to chip shortage. Samsung is considering to delay the introduction of the next Galaxy Note in 2021. Despite the slow demand for new cars during the pandemic, car manufacturers nonetheless still cannot keep up with the production due to chip shortages. NXP, a Dutch semiconductor company in this region, also suffered from production problems in Texas due to severe winter weather, but may also see problems arise with their foundry factory in Taiwan. Moreover, all the technology that is currently being implemented: 5G, AI, autonomous cars and all the data storage/processing demand, also becomes seriously at risk. 

In order to meet the demand, TSMC is ramping up their facilities with multiple orders of ASML lithography machines in their $100 billion investment plan to outmatch Intel’s recent $20 billion expansion plans. Other chip manufacturers also followed suit.

In the short term, that US president Biden intervened with an executive order to ensure US access to electronic chips. Military sources also warned about a potential Chinese intervention in Taiwan. In fact, a large portion of chips are made in Taiwan by TSMC, but the Taiwanese IC manufacturer may not be accessible for a Chinese companies like Huawei, under pressure from the US. With the US safeguarding production on US foundries, Taiwan being squeezed between China and US interest, where does Europe get its chips?

All of this developments will not only affect the prices of your next smartphone, tablet or TV set, but also highly impact semiconductor companies in the Brainport region such as ASML and NXP. For us and the listeners, enough reasons to invite an expert in how to make an integrated Circuit: Prof. Peter Baltus.