The Swiss Connection

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The Swiss Connection episodes

April 13, 2021 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 are not part of the discussion. How did they miss out? Or did they? And what does it mean for the next pandemic?
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20 min
March 30, 2021 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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24 min
March 16, 2021 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 anybody really know the whole story?
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25 min
March 02, 2021 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. What was the hold-up? And what’s still holding women back today?
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31 min
February 16, 2021 '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 moving to Nashville, Tennessee. He tells us why he's in the right place at the right time.
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32 min
February 02, 2021 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 questions about the origins of all this gold, and how it's extracted from the earth. In this episode we travel to Peru to find out what happens during the gold mining process.
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20 min
January 19, 2021 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 would you be? And how healthy is it to dwell on the past?
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26 min
January 05, 2021 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 in the 17th century, and we try to retrace the steps of the Swiss mercenaries who inspired him.
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29 min
December 22, 2020 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 exploring Europe in the 1980s, and we find out how they’re connected to Swiss mercenaries hitting the road in the 17th century.
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19 min
December 16, 2020 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 woman in California who did just that.
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23 min

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The Swiss Connection takes you inside scientific discoveries from Switzerland and shows how they are shaping global conversations. Each episode dives into the big questions impacting our future,…