An Englishman in Zurich is the new website for podcast columns that I have written over the past 12 months. The columns are broadcast on hoerkolumnen.ch as well as Swisster on Saturday, a new programme on Radio Cite in Switzerland.
Here is the link.
A little more sport. Olympic 100, 200 and 4×100 metre Gold medalist Usain Bolt graces Zurich with his presence. A report for World Radio Switzerland.
Motocross in the mud at Red Bull X-Fighters in Wuppertal. A blast.
A by-line for me today in the Independent newspaper in London for a story about a company supplying security printing software to the Zimbabwean state printer. An interesting read.
My latest client is pro helvetia - the Swiss Arts Council.
They do fantastic work promoting Swiss art and Swiss artists around the world and operate an amazingly diverse, multi-lingual communications platform out of Zurich. I’ll be working together with others on a new platform that will help Swiss embassies and other organisations to learn more about what the Swiss arts scene has to offer.
12 pilots. 10 races. 4 continents. The Red Bull Air Race World Series. This weekend we are in Rotterdam.
Smoke on!
Here is the file and text of my most recent podcast, broadcast on 14 July, 2008. Enjoy.
Cars For Comrades
Cars for comrades
Everyone is turning green. Not gangrenous green but environmentally green. I have friends in the UK who have ploughed up their back garden to grown turnips and others who steadfastly refuses to use air travel to go anywhere. They are restricted to a 100 mile radius around their homes. A self-imposed travel ban.
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Here are clips from an interview that I did with Radio Energy in Zurich. First broadcast on Wednesday, June 4, 2008.
Radio Energy Part One
Radio Energy Part Two
Radio Energy Part Three
Here is a link to a piece I did for World Radio Switzerland on the launch of the iPhone in Zurich. First broadcast on Friday, July 11, 2008.
This article was published by Swisster on July 3, 2008.
Valais glacier bluntly illustrates climate change
Tom Armitage - Zurich
The Aletsch Glacier in southern Switzerland cascades down the Alps, seemingly pushing apart the mountains on either side. Its tongue, marked by two dark strips of moraine, stretches out across the broad valley and tumbles down the rock. That is how it looked in 1856. Viewed from the same vantage point 150 years later, you have to look far up into the mountains to see the snow and ice.
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