Work began in 1857 on the book that would later be known as the Oxford English Dictionary. After five years, the project had reached the word 'ant'.

Why so slow?

The project called on volunteers world-wide to gather quotations to illustrate every sense and nuance of a particular word. This early form of crowd-sourcing attracted dozens of amateur and professional wordsmiths including J J R Tolkien, of Lord of the Rings fame.

In this week's Word of Mouth, Garry Littman tells us the story of Dr W C Minor, the gifted young army surgeon from America, traumatised by war, who came to Britain in the late 19th century, murdered a man on the street and was committed to Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane. Garry investigates how this man - a certified criminal lunatic - became one of the primary contributors to the dictionary.

For more information, this thrilling linguistic tale is brilliantly retold in the book The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester and is soon to be made into a film, directed by Mel Gibson, staring himself and Sean Penn.

What can you expect to find in your garden centre in the future? The Tuinzaken Retail Experience show in Boskoop in Holland had lots of ideas. Anite Meulemann, the Director of the show and Romeo Somers, Creative Director gave us their insights. Food truck festivals for plants and upending our traditional ideas of what plant should be sold where? Check out Romeo's videos on how to make your own home a bit greener www.greenyourday.nl

This week Michael McKay talks to Tim Jarvis, the outstanding and extraordinary environmental scientist, adventurer, author and Antarctic polar explorer.

In this week's edition of Learn More, Sean Power from the Institut Florimont in Geneva takes a look at how the school has changed over the past 12 years - and the improved choices for parents and students.

On this week's edition of Learn More, Sean Power from the Institut Florimont tells us what he looks for when recruiting new staff.

Mark, the happy winner of the BMW i8 in September comes into the studio to say how much he loves the car.

The festival takes place between the 21 - 26th March.

Each night is comprised of 2 parts – a local group, normally ex-students, and an international artist.

Tuesday 21 March ** Location: Alhambra **

19:30 Marie Krüttli Trio

21:00 John Scofield Quartet "Country for Old Men"

Wednesday 22 March

20:30 Trio ...C, The Pleasure

22:00 Jacob Anderskov's "Kinetics"

Thursday 23 March

20:30 Francois Tschumy - Beatrice Graf Duo

22:00 Tom Harrell "Trip"

Friday 24 March

20:30 L'Orage

22:00 Amok Amor

23:00 Jam session à la cave (free entry)

Saturday 25 March

20:30 Matthieu Llodra Trio

22:00 Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth

23:00 Jam session à la cave (free entry)

Sunday 26 March

19:30 Dialogue(s)

21:00 Marilyn Mazur's Shamania

Location: at the AMR unless otherwise specified.

Tickets can be purchased for the evenings and are CHF 40 for full price, CHF 25 for members and CHF 20 for students. Festival passes are also available. Prices range from CHF 100 to CHF 190.

ART SEEN - For your eyes only by WRS

Jamie's back this week to give you all the latest snow conditions, weather forecasts and goings on in the Alps!

This week love is in the air as we take a look at all the most romantic, picturesque, and love stricken locations in the alps. We talk Victorian-era hotels in the Jungfrau, Saas Fee's connection to 1980s band Wham, and Michelen-starred restaurants in Zermatt.

Catch the snow report on WRS every Thursday & Friday at 08:40 and 17:40 and repeated on Saturday at 07:40 and 10:40.

It's Valentines week this week. Can we find a romantic movie? Does Trainspotting 2 count?

Renton, Spud and Begbie are back to "choose life", but this time round they also

"Choose Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and hope that someone, somewhere cares.

Choose looking up old flames, wishing you’d done it all differently

And choose watching history repeat itself.

Choose your future.

Choose reality TV, slut shaming, revenge porn.

Choose a zero hour contract, a two hour journey to work.

And choose the same for your kids, only worse, and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody’s kitchen.

And then… take a deep breath.

You’re an addict, so be addicted.

Just be addicted to something else.

Choose the ones you love.

Choose your future.

Choose life.”

Now there's also the fairly spooky "Cure for Wellness" providing us with some big screen entertainment this week. This terrifying story of a young American businessman who goes to a Swiss asylum to bring back his missing boss, but ends up as an inpatient himself, seemingly incapable of leaving, is a terrifying story set amongst the stunning Swiss Alps, but will Kerre Cole break the magic somewhat in this week's episode of Film Nut?

Take a listen...