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

Back to basics: that's the theme for this year's Christmas. With a culture of huge celebrations, shoppings and holidays around Christmas, it's hard to imagine Christmas without those things.

Our guest this time, Parag Gupta, goes to great extend explaining what Christmas means for him as an American that just moved to Eindhoven less than a year ago and his plans for Christmas. A podcast hosted by Stephen Harianto for Radio 4 Brainport.

Stephen Harianto interviews Bart Bruijnen and Jean-Paul Linnartz about why "1921" by The Who is the most played song in December 2020 on Radio 4 Brainport. The phase "got a feeling 21 is gonna be a good year"sounds good, but the text and the context in "Tommy" are quite grim. The youngster witnesses a terrible event. Can we compare that to COVID-19? Jean-Paul was intruigued by re-interpreting the lyrics in this alternative manner. Bart Bruijnen sees a revival of the pop-rock sounds of the previous century.     

Working from typical home office may induce a substantial shift in your biological clock. It may feel like a jet-lag that builds up during the week. In this Podcast 4 Brainport, Julie Allen invites Jan Denneman, founder of the Good Light group and TU/e light expert Chara Papatsimpa to debate what can be done to avoid running into a winter depression.

How to safely enjoy diner in Corona times? Hendrik Coetzee from Hendrik Works and Hannerie Visser from Studio-H designed "socialising tools" . The tools act as conversation starters that help to maintain the physical distance without losing the social aspect of meeting up.  The project Mini-Meets was presented at the World Design Embassies. In this podcast, Jean-Paul Linnartz meets Hendrik Coetzee.  

Is social distancing of 1.5 meter adequate to avoid Corona infections? According to an alarming MIT paper, the corona virus may be carried by much smaller particles the heavy droplet assumed thus far. The 1.5 meter norm appears to have been based om models for tuberrculose, but COVID behaves differently.  At Radio 4 Brainport we ask an expert in air flows, Professor Bert Blocken, about whether air flows pose an unprecedented risk in the spraed of the Virus.

Photo: 2019 archive photo of Jean-Paul Linnartz interviewing Bert Blocken. This interview on Radio 4 Brainport was recorded in March 2020, and one of the first to address the risk of aerosols. 

Over 200 nationalities consider the Brainport region as their home, place to study and to work. The area has unquestionably become a melting pot and diversity is certainly not an alien concept, but something that we hold dear to our heart. What is diversity to you? How can we benefit from diversity or even contribute to it? Especially, in this COVID-19 crisis, inclusion and diversity matter more than ever.

In this week's podcast, Limi Kalapurackal takes us into discussing this matter with Lara Hofstra (Student Diversity Officer) and Nishad Guha (2nd year TU/e Bachelors student), together with our correspondents Jean-Paul Linnartz, Julie Allen and Stephen Harianto.

Our radio 4 Brainport Podcast hosting Stephen Harianto, columnist Limi Kalpurachal and Julie Allen about a US tradition that may or may not become popular in Eindhoven as well.     

Our reporter Leon Balmaekers interviews Gilbert Soeters of Via Belgica about the key role that this critical infrastructure had on the development of our region.  A unique opportunity to get in contact with Roman history beyond the usual city visits.   

Photo : Inge Stevens

Annually, an average of 6,4 billion hens lay 1,1 trillion eggs. Simultaneously one third of all food per year is lost or wasted which includes eggs that have short shelf life and whose fragile shell is not the most suitable protection against processing and transport. In the project ‘how do you like your eggs’ the content becomes container, an egg cup is produced from discarded eggs. In fact, damaged and b-stock egg whites and shells are thermoformed into bio-plastic cups with zero additives. 

Jean-Paul Linnartz had a chat with Designer Basse Stittgen for World Design Embassies and Radio 4 Brainport. Eindhoven

BC Materials transforms pure earth of construction sites to local building materials such as clay plasters, compressed earth blocks and rammed earth for walls and floors. These products are circular, carbon neutral, healthy and possess minimal grey energy. Jean-Paul Linnartz interviewed Anton Maertens about the project Exploded View at Dutch Design Week 2020.