My wide-ranging interview with Dr Hughes takes place in the year of the 100th anniversary of the International School of Geneva - ISG (1924-2024).

In this episode we discuss:

-His career journey to one of the top jobs in international education.

-How the ISG/Ecolint started and why.

-What he and his colleagues are teaching their young charges.

-His views on the place of the school, the teacher and the family in the "socialization" of children and young people today.

-The contribution of the ISG/Ecolint to "international" Geneva over the past 100 years.

Professor Julian Lindley-French is Chairman of the Alphen Group in the Netherlands and an expert analyst focussing on security and defence strategy and policy.

In this episode we discuss:

-Is the world is a safer place than in 2014 when I first interviewed him.

-Whether the West is still strong. Also, I put it to him that, perhaps, the West played its good hand badly after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.

-The ongoing conflict in Gaza

-The terrible but largely unreported conflict in Africa's Sahel.

-The continued tension across the Straight of Taiwan.

Dr Nadia Sikorsky, a Russian/Swiss dual national, is Co-founder and Editor of NashaGazeta.ch, the first Russian-language online newspaper in Switzerland.

In this episode we discuss:

-What mistakes the West made in dealing with the Russia post-Gorbachev

-What it will take for matters to improve for the Russian people.

Just over a year since our last radio conversation, I ask General Hodges

-For his assessment of the progress of the war in Ukraine against Russia's illegal invasion

-How long he thinks the war will continue

-What the West needs to do to support Ukraine better

-The interplay between politics and warfare, especially from the perspective of the USA in a Presidential Election year.

In this episode we discuss:

-What is the big picture regarding developments in quantum?

-What are the dangers?

-What, if anything, should we fear about the direction we are travelling?

In this episode we discuss:

-How to repair the badly damaged biosphere

-Who will pay for it

Insights into the evolution of the Geneva Observatory and its long history; what use Astronomy serves; and Geneva's contribution to the science of Astronomy in the larger frame of research worldwide.

In this episode we discuss:

-In a world of bewildering acronyms, what do XRIM, GAIA and EUCLID mean?

-I ask Professor Pepe if it is difficult to attract young people to study Astronomy.

-The war in Ukraine

-His view that Russia has lost the war already, strategically

-Whether NATO wants Ukraine to "win" but does not want Russia to "lose"

-His lament on the dearth of statesmen and the death of "grand strategy".

Avivah and I discuss the implications of living longer and working longer; what it means for pensions, for younger colleagues in the workplace and for families.

We cover the following topic:

-Isn't Longevity just a first-world problem? You might be surprised by Avivah's answer. And how will younger people adjust to having work colleagues around them the age of their grandparents!

A radio conversation about Switzerland's relationship and role at the U.N. especially now that it is a Non-permanent Member of the Security Council.

In this episode we discuss:

-If there is the remotest chance that the Security Council can reform itself.

-We touch on the extent to which the Swiss population takes an interest in the U.N. and whether or not that is important.

-We talk about Swiss neutrality and what it really means these days.

-I ask him about his duties and obligations as head of the host country's delegation to the U.N. in Geneva.