The Swiss Connection

By SWI swissinfo.ch

Discover science and innovation in Switzerland with the Swiss Connection Podcast! From the tiniest particles to the vastness of space, satisfy your scientific curiosity and join our journalists

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The podcast currently has 95 episodes available.

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January 19, 2021 Part 3: Why do we get nostalgic?
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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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26min
January 05, 2021 Part 2: Why do we get nostalgic?
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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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30min
December 22, 2020 Part 1: Why do we get nostalgic?
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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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19min
December 16, 2020 Moving back to Switzerland in a pandemic
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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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24min
April 19, 2020 The jazz singer with Swiss folk roots
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When you first see her with her sleek bob and glossy fingernails, it’s kind of surprising to learn that Gabriela Martina was raised on a farm. But it’s memories of her rural upbringing that power some of her music.
Over a decade ago, she left her home in the Lucerne countryside to study jazz in the United States. Today, the vocalist and composer lives in Boston and teaches at her alma mater, the Berklee College of Music.
Martina tries to mix her Swiss yodelling roots with jazz, soul, RnB, gospel and blues. Her latest album, Homage to Grämlis, tells stories about the farm where she grew up with her parents, grandmother, two sisters and a brother. Many of the songs are about how they tended animals and the land. It’s bittersweet as the family recently had to give up the farm.

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13min
March 26, 2020 Inside Geneva: A decade of war in Syria
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27min
March 22, 2020 Inside Geneva: the United Nations and China
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33min
March 15, 2020 The sound of Nashville with a Swiss twist
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22min
March 07, 2020 Inside Geneva: What should we be doing about human rights violations?
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32min
February 11, 2020 Inside Geneva: How to deal with coronavirus?
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32min

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How many episodes does The Swiss Connection have?

The podcast currently has 95 episodes available.