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Telling the world about historic peacekeeping efforts

Title: Telling the world about historic peacekeeping efforts
Runtime: 3:49
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: On 1 January, 1942, a document was signed by 26 states, coining the term "United Nations". The Declaration of the United Nations external link pledged that their governments would continue fighting together against the Axis Powers. Swiss Public Television, RTS, takes a closer look at attempts to make historic documents like these available to a wider public. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)
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Ferdinand Hodler, the painter of ecstasy

Title: Ferdinand Hodler, the painter of ecstasy
Runtime: 1:44
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: He's one of Switzerland's most famous 19th-century artists. Yet he's barely known to the general public in the US. Now the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is presenting Ferdinand Hodler to its visitors in Washington. In this video, curator Robyn Asleson talks about the element of ecstasy in Hodler's work. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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Does limiting urban sprawl mean bad architecture?

Title: Does limiting urban sprawl mean bad architecture?
Runtime: 3:49
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The town of Schwyz recently tore down some medieval buildings with beautiful wall paintings in order to create space for some multi-storey buildings. According to the 2014 federal zoning law, Swiss municipalities are obliged to limit urban sprawl. However, building new, incongruous structures in historic town centres can often change the local character. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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Title: Storm Burglind takes its toll
Runtime: 0:31
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The passage of storm Burglind across much of Switzerland on Wednesday wrought havoc, with winds of up to 200km/h. (SRF/SDA)
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Title: Batman hunts down a Basel "Waggis"
Runtime: 3:41
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The Waggis is usually only found causing mischief at Basel’s Fasnacht carnival. Recently, though, he has also been stirring things up in Gotham City. Thanks to Basel-based Enrico Marini, the illustrator of the latest issue of the DC comic.

A Waggis is a traditional disguise worn at the Basel Fasnacht, mimicking the garb of an Alsatian vegetable farmer. The character's mask( a "Larve") is traditionally a blonde head, with hair made from yellow raffia. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Telling the world about historic peacekeeping efforts
Runtime: 2:12
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: On 1 January, 1942, a document was signed by 26 states, coining the term "United Nations". The Declaration of the United Nations pledged that their governments would continue fighting together against the Axis Powers. Swiss Public Television, RTS, takes a closer look at attempts to make historic documents like these available to a wider public. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)

The Geneva archives are testament to efforts to establish peace through diplomacy. The League of Nations was the predecessor of the United Nations, and was the first international organisation that set out to achieve world peace. The 26 years of the League's history are summed up in 15 million pages.

These documents will soon be available on the Internet, thanks partly to students at the University of Geneva. They are busy deciphering and indexing the documents with the help of thousands of Internet users via an online research platform. The project is part of a crowdsourcing project and ...

Increasing number of poor people in Geneva

Title: Increasing number of poor people in Geneva
Runtime: 2:35
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Demand for food parcels in Switzerland has increased by more than 38% over two years, highlighting the issue of poverty in the country. One in four Swiss people experiences financial difficulties and has no money left over for food at the end of the month, especially in Geneva. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)
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Valais wants better protection for flightless mountain birds

Title: Valais wants better protection for flightless mountain birds
Runtime: 1:55
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The number of black grouse and ptarmigans in canton Valais is plummeting. Now the cantonal parliament has decided to act and is reducing hunting quotas. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)
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Scaring off wild boar in their own language

Title: Scaring off wild boar in their own language
Runtime: 3:56
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Forget guns or traps, a researcher in Switzerland has been using terrifying sounds to try and scare wild boar away from crops. It's hoped that the "scary stories"might help farmers, who suffer from destroyed fields and harvests thanks to the animals. The number of wild boar in Switzerland has been increasing for years. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Face 2 Face: smoking in films
Runtime: 4:32
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Does lighting up on the big screen still make a character seem cool? We pitted two young Swiss filmmakers against each other to see what they think.

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Title: Life without a mobile phone
Runtime: 4:46
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: It might be hard for some of us to believe, but there are people who choose to live without a mobile phone. Do you find yourself looking at an app to check the weather, rather than looking out of the window? This is just one example of a reliance on mobile technology that started to really bug 30-year-old Daniel Hellemann. Two years ago he threw away his phone, and despite the odd problem at work, he hasn't looked back since. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Swiss experts try to save ancient cave paintings

Title: Swiss experts try to save ancient cave paintings
Runtime: 2:31
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: A Swiss team is trying to save Palaeolithic cave paintings in the Lascaux caves in the Dordogne, France, which are under threat from condensation. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)

Estimated to be up to 20,000 years old, the paintings consist primarily of large animals, once native to the region. They were discovered in 1940, and given statutory historic monument protection. In 1979, Lascaux and other decorated caves of the Vézère Valley were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list.

The Swiss Institute of Speleology, a team of specialists from canton Neuchâtel, is trying to come up with ways of preventing further degradation of these historically important cave pictures by studying comparable sites. The team hopes to propose a plan to limit the damage in about a year. Otherwise, some of the paintings could be lost forever.

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Title: Basel’s Fasnacht honoured
Runtime: 3:04
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: As Basel prepares for its next three-day carnival to chase away the spirits of winter, it has extra cause for celebration. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

Basel Fasnacht has been added to the UNESCO list of events exhibiting the “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”. This is defined as the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge and skills recognised as part of a country's cultural heritage. It is sometimes called living cultural heritage.

Basel Fasnacht is the biggest carnival in Switzerland, featuring "Morgenstreich", a surreal parade. At 4am on the Monday morning after Ash Wednesday, the lights in the city are turned off and all the cliques (music groups) begin to play together in total darkness. Each clique travels with an illuminated lantern, decorated around the subject of political satire.

The event also features so-called 'Schnitzelbank' singers, who sing satirical verses in local dialogue about local or global curren...

Title: Reindeer? No, postmen on skis!
Runtime: 1:48
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The Swiss Post may soon be using drones to deliver Christmas packages in isolated areas, but 60 years ago, postmen used a good old analogue method: skis.

Modern postmen have more to fear from aggressive dogs than sporting injuries. But last century, postmen in mountain areas of Switzerland risked breaking their necks to get the Christmas packages to their destinations on time.

In this footage from the archives of Swiss Public Television, RTS, you can see how the post office in Einsiedeln came to terms with heavy snow fall affecting the village of Oberiberg (canton Schwyz) at Christmas in 1957. The postal bus was driven as far as possible, but then the postman had to strap on his skis in order to get through the heavy snow. The village is located at 1125 metres above sea level and receives quite a lot of the white stuff in winter.

This is traditionally an agricultural area but many people now commute to Einsiedeln or Zurich for work. Tourism is...

The village teacher with the foreign name

Title: The village teacher with the foreign name
Runtime: 4:43
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. This week she talks to Driton Idrizi, an ethnic Albanian from Macedonia. At school he encountered racism and nearly dropped out, but he was brought back on track by his private tutor, who inspired him to also become an educator. Driton now works as a secondary school teacher in the mountain village of Sigriswil in canton Bern. (SRF Kulturplatz/swissinfo.ch)
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Jura farmers turn their hand to spirulina production

Title: Jura farmers turn their hand to spirulina production
Runtime: 2:18
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: A Swiss family business has branched out into the cultivation of spirulina, an aquatic microalgae that has become a much sought-after food supplement. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Qualified refugees find new paths to jobs

Title: Qualified refugees find new paths to jobs
Runtime: 4:17
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The job prospects for qualified refugees in Switzerland are poor. Many are on welfare, even after living in the country for years. A PR agency in Zurich wants to draw attention to the untapped potential of qualified refugees and has taken on a refugee as a member of its own staff. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

Speaking at an integration conference earlier this year, Swiss Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga laid out the advantages of better integrating refugees in the job market.

“If you have a job, you don’t need welfare,” she said.

The justice and finance ministries, along with three cantonal government conferences, set out to define a more concrete plan and budget for such integration while determining how to better utilise the professional potential of refugees.

A 2014 study from the United Nations agency UNHCR showed that, despite many training offerings at a cantonal level, only about one in five refugees had found work in t...

The challenges of hunting in urban forests

Title: The challenges of hunting in urban forests
Runtime: 3:38
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Twice a year, hunters are on the prowl in the Hagenbuchwald on the outskirts of St. Gallen. This is a recreation area for local residents, so the deer are used to lots of noise. It's not easy to flush them out into open areas. Proximity to the city makes things difficult for the hunters. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Viva l'Italia!
Runtime: 3:39
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. This week Tama talks to her Italian friends about what it's like for them living in Zurich, and Italian cultural taboos. For instance, you should never cut your spaghetti or drink a cappuccino in the afternoon! (SRF Kulturplatz/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Switzerland’s freak winters
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: When was the last time Switzerland saw so much snow?

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Where does your Christmas tree come from?

Title: Where does your Christmas tree come from?
Runtime: 1:03
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: If you assume your Christmas tree comes from a local farm, it might be time to think again.

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Switzerland’s alternative Christmas markets

Title: Switzerland’s alternative Christmas markets
Runtime: 1:16
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: What about buying for a good cause when you pick up your Christmas presents?

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Restoring natural habitats for flora and fauna

Title: Restoring natural habitats for flora and fauna
Runtime: 1:53
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Things don’t look good for biodiversity in Switzerland. Many animals and plant species lack habitats, since they are broken up by residential areas and roads. The Swiss cabinet has now agreed on an action plan. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Swiss train rides: punctual and beautiful

Title: Swiss train rides: punctual and beautiful
Runtime: 1:43
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Trains, train, trains: Diccon Bewes packs his bag and heads off for a day out on Swiss public transport. Along the way he manages to hop on board almost every type of moving vehicle that Switzerland has to offer.

It turns out it's not the beautiful views that take his breath away, but the intricate train timetables he finds on the platforms. Diccon explains why he loves them, and what happens to them in December. (Diccon Bewes for swissinfo.ch)
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When the going gets tough, get out of bed!

Title: When the going gets tough, get out of bed!
Runtime: 4:02
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: (To view video subtitles in English, click on the cc icon to turn captions on).

Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. In this week's vlog, she tells us how to stay motivated. She says, "When the going gets tough, don't take a nap. Get out there and pursue your goals."(SRF Kulturplatz/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: How to reduce antibiotics in livestock
Runtime: 1:51
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Antibiotics in meat are an increasing health hazard to people. Some farmers are treating their livestock using homeopathy or phytotherapy as an alternative to antibiotics or other drugs. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)
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Perfectly prepared pistes: at what cost?

Title: Perfectly prepared pistes: at what cost?
Runtime: 3:36
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: A lack of snow in mountain regions has become a real problem for some Swiss ski resorts. People's livelihoods rely on the business that comes with skiing, and mountain regions are forced to make artificial snow to ensure the pistes can open. But this process comes at a cost. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

The production of artificial snow uses a lot of natural resources and energy. Some ski resorts have been using a different technique to try and make artificial snow production more efficient in terms of both natural resources, and money.

Gstaad, for example, is now using a snow depth measuring system. Every time a snow groomer (the truck that prepares the pistes) drives over the snowy surface, the depth of snow is measured, and the data sent back to a database.

Drivers can see the information on the spread of snow on screens inside their cabins, and can react, based on how deep the snow should be. They then focus artificial snow production on specific ar...

Title: The Waggis' moment of fame
Runtime: 1:35
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Why is Batman angry at a character from the Basel carnival?

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Are circus animals an endangered species?

Title: Are circus animals an endangered species?
Runtime: 0:56
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Although Switzerland has really strong animal welfare laws, animals are still used in circuses. How do other countries compare?

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Swiss deaf society makes ‘Federer’ sign of the year

Title: Swiss deaf society makes ‘Federer’ sign of the year
Runtime: 0:38
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: There’s no way you’ll be able to stop yourself signing along with Federer while watching this video!

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Behind the scenes with our online media team

Title: Behind the scenes with our online media team
Runtime: 9:50
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The editorial staff of swissinfo.ch is making the most of the chances of digitalisation. Whether new community tools or multimedia story telling; as a purely online media we work with a wide range of new possibilities - and we do it in 10 languages!

Data driven journalism, Facebook Live, podcasts, new video formats, info graphics – we use many ways to tell our stories; stories on strong topics shaped by the journalistic expertise of our specialists and languages departments.

Come and take a look behind the scenes of swissinfo.ch!

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Title: When shopping gets political
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Are there ways of judging how politically involved young people are other than looking at voter turnout?

Organic and fair trade products are booming. However, sales figures don't tell the whole story. When people decide to buy something out of conviction, shopping can become a form of political participation.

Political scientist Birte Gundelach is a specialist in this area, and is working on ways to figure out what motivates people to buy products with such labels.

This is the latest report in our series in which researchers take us 'Inside the Democracy Labs'.
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Title: How well do we recycle plastic?
Runtime: 4:41
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: There are various ways of recycling plastic waste in Switzerland. Yet compared with other countries we recycle too little. A study now shows that expanding ways for people to get rid of plastic would relieve the burden on both the environment and people’s wallets. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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The forgotten story of Swiss au pairs in Britain

Title: The forgotten story of Swiss au pairs in Britain
Runtime: 4:15
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: In the inter-war and post-war years, Britain was a popular destination for Swiss women. Working as au-pairs, they learned about life in Britain and many fell in love with the country and its people. In a new book, Simone Müller describes how young women at the time fought bravely against the confines of Swiss society and for more vocational possibilities. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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In a balloon, hanging off a cliff: this is extreme fondue

Title: In a balloon, hanging off a cliff: this is extreme fondue
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: If you’re not going for an ‘extreme fondue’ this winter – you’re missing out.

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St Nicholas’s sidekick – where does he come from?

Title: St Nicholas’s sidekick – where does he come from?
Runtime: 1:03
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Three theories about where St Nick’s helper comes from and why he has a blackened face…

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Title: YouTubers come in all shapes and sizes
Runtime: 4:18
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. This week, she attends the Zug film festival, "Zuger Filmtage", to accept an award for her Vlog. The festival provides a competition platform for YouTubers of all ages who have something fresh to offer. Tama meets some of the competitors. (SRF Kulturplatz/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Making fun of migration stereotypes
Runtime: 4:45
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. This week she interviews Arman and Sascha from Austria, who have made a feature film ("Die Migrantigen”), poking fun at migration stereotypes. Omar, a former criminal, and his friends live in the fictional town of Rudolfsgrund. They all eat kebabs and they're all broke, but still drive BMWs. (SRF Kulturplatz/swissinfo.ch)
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Remembering ‘French Elvis’ in Switzerland

Title: Remembering ‘French Elvis’ in Switzerland
Runtime: 1:08
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Johnny Hallyday, the French rock star who has died from cancer, had a large fan base in French-speaking Switzerland, and once made headlines when he moved to the country for tax reasons. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Making fun of migration stereotypes
Runtime: 4:45
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. This week she interviews Arman and Sascha from Austria, who have made a feature film ("Die Migrantigen”), poking fun at migration stereotypes. Omar, a former criminal, and his friends live in the fictional town of Rudolfsgrund. They all eat kebabs and they're all broke, but still drive BMWs. (SRF Kulturplatz/swissinfo.ch)
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A Swiss architect’s love affair with a village set to become a hotel

Title: A Swiss architect’s love affair with a village set to become a hotel
Runtime: 2:33
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: An architect who once studied a small mountain community in Ticino weighs in on plans to turn it into a hotel to keep it from dying out. (swissinfo.ch/RTS)

Thomas Amsler, who now lives in the US, first visited Corippo while hiking with his parents in the region in the 1950s. He was so enchanted that he and three architect colleagues produced a book about it in 1959. They were astounded at the amount of stone used, as he recently told swissinfo.ch during a visit to Bern. His best known creation, perhaps, is the high control tower at Logan airport in Boston.

Amsler was interested in Corippo partly due to it being the smallest municipality in Switzerland with just 13 permanent residents. To prevent the village from dying out altogether, the old, vacant houses are being turned into a “scattered” hotel with a total of 22 beds. The Osteria (restaurant) would be the front desk and the lanes would become hotel corridors.

Even though it’s ti...

Title: Here comes Santa Claus, on Lake Lucerne
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Every year, a village on Lake Lucerne hosts one of Switzerland’s most spectacular holiday traditions: the Klausjagen. Loosely translated as “chasing Santa”, Klausjagen is a procession featuring hundreds of men and boys cracking whips, blowing horns, ringing giant cowbells, and carrying enormous handmade lanterns on their heads. This 360° film offers some unique perspectives. (Susan Misicka, swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Where there's a will, there's a way
Runtime: 4:01
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. This week she talks to Ola, who's 20, and fled the war in Aleppo, Syria, with her family a year ago.

Since then, Ola has not only learnt German by taking free classes and practicing with friends, she has also set up and run a successful crowd funding campaign. Within five days she had raised the money needed to attend an integration course in order to become a biomedical lab technician.
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Title: Face 2 Face: a question of family
Runtime: 2:57
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: One stay-at-home mum, and one stay-at-home dad, from 2 different families. We found out what they think about modern parenting, paternity leave and sharing the housework!

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Experimenting with traditional grape varieties

Title: Experimenting with traditional grape varieties
Runtime: 3:17
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: This autumn, the best Swiss wines were selected at the 'Grand Prix du Vin Suisse'. Valais winemaker Olivier Mounir won one of the 13 categories, receiving an award for his 'Petite Arvine' – a traditional, long-forgotten grape variety from Valais. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Where will tomorrow's IT specialists come from?

Title: Where will tomorrow's IT specialists come from?
Runtime: 3:16
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: When it comes to convincing enough young people to go into computer studies, Switzerland is lagging behind. The Swiss IT inter-trade organisation would like to see a larger offer for IT apprenticeships. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: The Bondo landslide: 3 months on
Runtime: 1:39
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: How do the people affected by a landslide that destroyed a Swiss village remember the events now?

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Title: Using horses to work in the forest
Runtime: 1:15
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The horse and the lumberjack, the new Swiss tale?
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Title: An encounter with three organists
Runtime: 2:39
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Meet three organists whose work resonates in churches as well as among the congregation and music lovers. The musicians come from different backgrounds but have all discovered the unique appeal of this instrument. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Klingon course for Star Trek fans
Runtime: 2:09
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: André Müller is a talented linguist. Studying for his PhD in linguistics, he’s already mastered 15 languages. One of them is Klingon: a language originally developed by a linguist in the 1980s for the Star Trek films. Now André Müller is teaching eager students. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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