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Health Matters: COVID Vaccine update (10 Feb 2021)

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?

How Jim's British Market is coping with Brexit

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. www.jbmarket.ch

Swiss Up: Appenzell Women getting the vote in 1990! (9 February 2021)

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

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

McKay Interview: Michael Moller - GESDA (8 February 2021)

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.