World Radio Switzerland

Listen in to Dr Michelle’s latest COVID vaccine update – what’s new here in Switzerland, how are the new COVID variants spreading and what is the COVAX programme aiming to achieve?

While Brexit causes havoc for many companies in the UK – it has also opened opportunities for others.

The British expat food shop, Jim’s British Market in Gland initially struggled to get products from the UK into the EU’s single market – of which Switzerland is a member.

While the teething problems are being figured out, Chris Anderson who’s in charge of importing for Jim’s says they’ve been imaginative.

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On this week's Swiss Up! Dario looks at how women got the vote in canton Appenzell Innerrhoden and the woman who almost singlehandedly drove to the issue to the Federal Court - Theresia Rhoner.

UN Roundup - Mark Lowcock steps down as UN’s Emergency Relief Chief by WRS

Michael McKay's guest is Michael Møller, known to many of you as the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva up until a year or so ago.

Well, you cannot keep a good and energetic man down! And he has re-emerged as one of the principal leaders of this new organisation that I mentioned which is called the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator Foundation. Quite a mouthful to say. And so, for short, they call themselves GESDA.

Marking World Cancer Day, Dr Michelle talks to Zoe Zenklusen Payne about her personal story living with metastatic breast cancer. They discuss what led Zoe to set up Simply Zoe to provide women with beautiful, elegant yet functional items to help them through their breast cancer treatment and recovery and also the Fearless Movement that Zoe has launched to raise awareness and funds on World Cancer Day. Find out more:

https://www.simplyzoe.ch/news/2021/1/13/fearless-on-world-cancer-day

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Nelly Bettens on the crocodile siblings she's studying in Geneva by WRS

IUG Open Day by WRS

It was this month in 1971 the (male) Swiss voters finally agreed to allow women to vote and stand in Federal Elections. Dario looks at why it took so long - and many efforts - to bring in votes for women.

UN Roundup - Libyan Dialogue, Central African Republic displacement , WHO update by WRS