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FEATURES THIS WEEK

 
Featured
Money Talks: From saving coins to owning property with Ala Presenti
Sep 19, 2025
Money Talks: From saving coins to owning property with Ala Presenti
Sep 19, 2025

Discover how Ala Presenti, co-founder of Moniflo, turned early lessons on money into a journey of investing, sustainable finance, and financial independence.

Sep 19, 2025
What’s right: Japan reaches nearly 100,000 centenarians
Sep 19, 2025
What’s right: Japan reaches nearly 100,000 centenarians
Sep 19, 2025

Japan has set a remarkable new milestone: almost 100,000 people in the country are now aged 100 or older. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Sep 19, 2025
What’s right:  Battery could power devices for thousands of years
Sep 18, 2025
What’s right: Battery could power devices for thousands of years
Sep 18, 2025

Scientists have revealed something extraordinary: the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Sep 18, 2025
PwC People Pulse - Firm Culture at PwC with Léanna Obidol and Maria Wu
Sep 17, 2025
PwC People Pulse - Firm Culture at PwC with Léanna Obidol and Maria Wu
Sep 17, 2025

In this episode of PwC People Pulse, Léanna Obidol and Maria Wu shared their experiences of working and growing at PwC Luxembourg.

Sep 17, 2025
The British and Irish Film Festival autumn edition is here!
Sep 16, 2025
The British and Irish Film Festival autumn edition is here!
Sep 16, 2025

We were lucky enough to speak to Geoff Thompson about the autumn edition of the British and Irish Film Festival. Tune in to hear more about what to expect from the festival and about some of Geoff’s personal highlights.

Sep 16, 2025
What’s right: UN says ozone layer is healing
Sep 16, 2025
What’s right: UN says ozone layer is healing
Sep 16, 2025

Earth’s ozone layer is gradually healing, thanks to rigorous global efforts to phase out harmful chemicals that destroy it. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Sep 16, 2025
 Whats Right: EU cuts food and textile waste
Sep 15, 2025
Whats Right: EU cuts food and textile waste
Sep 15, 2025

The EU sets binding rules to cut food and textile waste by 2030. Producers must recycle, redesign and report, while countries enforce targets to shrink Europe’s growing trash mountains. Get all the details on today's "What's Right with the World."

Sep 15, 2025
Petition by HouseEurope! to protect affordable housing and the climate
Sep 12, 2025
Petition by HouseEurope! to protect affordable housing and the climate
Sep 12, 2025

Maribel Casas joined Charles on the Breakfast Show to talk about the current state of housing in Europe and why it’s so important to take action now.

Sep 12, 2025
What’s right: Brazil cuts Amazon fires by 65% in July
Sep 12, 2025
What’s right: Brazil cuts Amazon fires by 65% in July
Sep 12, 2025

The area burned by fires in the Amazon this July dropped 65% compared to the same month last year. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Sep 12, 2025
What's right: Free fitness program in the UK gets hundreds moving
Sep 11, 2025
What's right: Free fitness program in the UK gets hundreds moving
Sep 11, 2025

In North Lincolnshire, a new community fitness program is proving that sometimes the simplest ideas can have the biggest impact. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Sep 11, 2025
'Teaching Honesty to Strengthen Democracy' Interview with Sarah Stitzlein
Sep 9, 2025
'Teaching Honesty to Strengthen Democracy' Interview with Sarah Stitzlein
Sep 9, 2025

Sarah Stitzlein is an author, editor, and philosopher of education at the University of Cincinnati. We sat down her ahead of her upcoming lecture at the Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg to discuss democracy, honesty in politics, and why it matters to all of us.

Sep 9, 2025
What’s right: New Mexico Guarantees Universal Child Care
Sep 9, 2025
What’s right: New Mexico Guarantees Universal Child Care
Sep 9, 2025

New Mexico is breaking new ground: starting November 1, it will offer universal, no-cost child care to every family, regardless of income. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Sep 9, 2025
Finding lost pets with Tanja Forette and Tessy Stein from Sichhenn.lu
Sep 8, 2025
Finding lost pets with Tanja Forette and Tessy Stein from Sichhenn.lu
Sep 8, 2025

Tania Forette and Tessy Stein from the organisation Sichhenn.lu joined us for an interview about their work searching for lost pets in Luxembourg.

Sep 8, 2025
 Whats Right: Wisconsin Strengthens Patients’ Rights
Sep 5, 2025
Whats Right: Wisconsin Strengthens Patients’ Rights
Sep 5, 2025

Wisconsin has passed a new law requiring written consent for pelvic exams under anesthesia in teaching hospitals, strengthening patient rights and reshaping how medical students are trained nationwide. Get all the details on today's "What's right with the world."

Sep 5, 2025
PwC People Pulse: Client Innovation at PwC
Sep 3, 2025
PwC People Pulse: Client Innovation at PwC
Sep 3, 2025

PwC's Pierre-André Honnayand Mildred Figueroa from the Client Innovation Team took listeners behind the scenes of how innovation with clients are driven.

Sep 3, 2025
What’s right: Breakthrough to reverse memory loss
Sep 2, 2025
What’s right: Breakthrough to reverse memory loss
Sep 2, 2025

Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have uncovered a remarkable key to reversing memory loss. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Sep 2, 2025
A four day festival of contemporary dance in Luxembourg City!
Aug 29, 2025
A four day festival of contemporary dance in Luxembourg City!
Aug 29, 2025

The Aerowaves Dance Festival is happening from the 3rd to the 6th of September and we sat down with Bernard Baumgarten and Ainhoa Achutegui who are organising the event.

Aug 29, 2025
 

Local Matters

Featured
 Local Matters: Towards a refugee assembly
Local Matters
Local Matters: Towards a refugee assembly
Local Matters

Tune in to Local Matters today as architect Mohammed Zanboa shares his vision for Municipality 101 and it could transform refugee participation and challenge ideas about belonging in Luxembourg.

Local Matters
Local Matters: Victory for political transparency and pedestrian safety
Local Matters
Local Matters: Victory for political transparency and pedestrian safety
Local Matters

A grassroots group took Luxembourg City to court—and won. Zug's fight for safer streets and public transparency is setting legal precedents and inspiring civic action.

Local Matters
Local Matters: The mental health impacts of long covid
Local Matters
Local Matters: The mental health impacts of long covid
Local Matters

A groundbreaking study in Luxembourg reveals how long COVID impacts mental health in unique ways, urging personalized care. Experts say one-size-fits-all treatment no longer meets patient needs.

Local Matters
Local Matters: Making hidden disabilities visible
Local Matters
Local Matters: Making hidden disabilities visible
Local Matters

How can we make hidden disabilities more visible? Tune in to Local Matters as Be Human tackles inclusion, disability rights, and new airport initiatives for better accessibility! Listen to the entire interview with Nadia Kendall.

Local Matters
Art exhibition on the Passerelle with Festival des Migrations
Local Matters
Art exhibition on the Passerelle with Festival des Migrations
Local Matters

Discover an interactive art exhibition at the Passerelle, blending analog and digital techniques. Part of the Festival des Migrations, it runs until the end of March. Meet the artists at Luxexpo in two weeks!

Local Matters
Narrowing the gender gap in research
Local Matters
Narrowing the gender gap in research
Local Matters

Women in research face funding gaps and career barriers. On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, ARA City Radio looks at efforts made in Luxembourg, speaking to the FNR and the University of Luxembourg.

Local Matters
 Local Matters: Where to have coffee with kids
Local Matters
Local Matters: Where to have coffee with kids
Local Matters

Today on Local Matters, we explore the challenges parents face in finding family-friendly cafés in Luxembourg. Hear from Cecile, who created a new label certifying child-welcoming spaces, and visit Florence Café in the Gare area, one of the certified spots hosting an event for new moms this afternoon.

Local Matters
 Local Matters: Esch's mayor Christian Weis about civic participation
Local Matters
Local Matters: Esch's mayor Christian Weis about civic participation
Local Matters

The city of Esch has introduced an online platform where citizens can easily request a meeting with a municipal officer or alderman. The initiative aims to strengthen the direct contact between the citizens and the politicians. In our interview on Local Matters, mayor Christian Weis (CSV) explains how the city of Esch aims to foster civic participation through this and other initiatives.

Local Matters

Music Matters

Featured
Interview with the Carolina and Jason Jazz Duo
Aug 4, 2025
Interview with the Carolina and Jason Jazz Duo
Aug 4, 2025
Aug 4, 2025
New Music Monday Tracks
Aug 4, 2025
New Music Monday Tracks
Aug 4, 2025
Aug 4, 2025
This week's gig guide with Jon
Nov 21, 2024
This week's gig guide with Jon
Nov 21, 2024
Nov 21, 2024
Fish, Brutus and more on today's Gig Guide!
Nov 13, 2024
Fish, Brutus and more on today's Gig Guide!
Nov 13, 2024
Nov 13, 2024
Francis of Delirium featured on KEXP!
Sep 13, 2024
Francis of Delirium featured on KEXP!
Sep 13, 2024
Sep 13, 2024

SOCIAL ISSUES

Featured
socials issues
Language Inequality: Rethinking Literacy with Daniel Rudas
socials issues

What if the most powerful forms of literacy aren’t taught in schools—but passed down through resistance, gardens, and handwritten notes? Listen to Daniel Rudas' interview in the framework of the Redes_Ling project on language inequality.

socials issues
 Challenging Language Inequality with Laura Villa Galán
socials issues
Challenging Language Inequality with Laura Villa Galán
socials issues

In our new interview series on language inequality, sociolinguist Laura Vila Galán reveals how language inequality stems from history and power, not grammar. Hear why dialects matter and how social change begins with linguistic awareness.

socials issues
What's right: protecting heritage through fashion
News, socials issues, Sustainability, What's right
What's right: protecting heritage through fashion
News, socials issues, Sustainability, What's right

Young Philippine female entrepreneurs have started to preserve traditional crafts by working with local weavers and embroiderers from a small village to create beautiful traditionally hand-made garments, thus preserving the indigenous culture through fashion.

News, socials issues, Sustainability, What's right
No room for discriminatory petitions
Politics, socials issues
No room for discriminatory petitions
Politics, socials issues

Luxembourg’s LGBTIQ+ rights groups gathered yesterday to protest for the rights of queer people as the petition that demands LGBTIQA+ related topics to be scrapped from school education surpassed 6.000 signatures – one of the fastest growing petitions in recent history. Franziska comments on protest and the petition.

Politics, socials issues
What's right: a ground-breaking cure for alcoholism?
socials issues
What's right: a ground-breaking cure for alcoholism?
socials issues

Using gene therapy, scientists have discovered that managing the level of the protein GDNF is key to the the correct transmission of dopamine, the feel-good neurotransmitter, in the brain. GDNF levels plummet when alcoholics abstain from drinking, leading to a dopamine shortage and feeling of discomfort, which makes alcoholics resort to drinking. Gene therapy is now thought to 'fix' GDNF levels, which could be a solution for those suffering from alcoholism.

socials issues
 What's Right: Erectile dysfunction drugs may reduce Alzheimer's risk
socials issues
What's Right: Erectile dysfunction drugs may reduce Alzheimer's risk
socials issues

Men who were prescribed erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra and Cialis were 18 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease, according to a British study. That gives some hope that such drugs could be repurposed to prevent a common form of dementia.

socials issues
What's Right: Ghana's girls from the coast are changing culture through surfing
socials issues
What's Right: Ghana's girls from the coast are changing culture through surfing
socials issues

Obibini is Ghana's only female surf club. It gives young women and girls a place to play, learn and socialise. Teaching girls to swim and surf even seems to have lowered the local teenage pregnancy rate.

socials issues
Overindebtedness: How debts relate to health issues
Local Matters, socials issues
Overindebtedness: How debts relate to health issues
Local Matters, socials issues

Amélie Dolo knows: Debts make sick. And she also knows that people have to make debts to stay healthy. Amélie Dolo is the head of the Inter-Actions' over-indebtedness counseling service. In our interview on Local Matters, she explains how debts and health are related.

Local Matters, socials issues
Overindebtedness: Ending up stuck in debts
socials issues, Local Matters
Overindebtedness: Ending up stuck in debts
socials issues, Local Matters

When something unexpected happens in life – job loss or sickness – people risk making more debts than they can afford. The Ligue Médico-sociale offers consultancy for people with excessive debts. Christian Schumacher, the head of the department, is our guest on Local Matters.

socials issues, Local Matters
Interview With Clean Something For Nothing
EcoTalks, Activities, socials issues, Breakfast Show
Interview With Clean Something For Nothing
EcoTalks, Activities, socials issues, Breakfast Show

Cesar from Clean Something for Nothing was Tom's second guest of the morning today on the Breakfast Show. He stopped by the studios to talk about the app which he has built to support litter picking communities all over the world and how people can get involved in world clean up day this Saturday in Luxembourg.

EcoTalks, Activities, socials issues, Breakfast Show

CULTURE MATTERS

Featured
Zoom on Luxembourg: Interview with Suzan Noesen
Culture, Whine and Shine
Zoom on Luxembourg: Interview with Suzan Noesen
Culture, Whine and Shine

Suzan Noesen tells us about her art practices, inspirations and experiences as a full-time artist in Luxembourg and abroad.

Culture, Whine and Shine
No Stupid Question: What do you need to do on the day of the elections?
No Stupid Questions, Education, Culture
No Stupid Question: What do you need to do on the day of the elections?
No Stupid Questions, Education, Culture

Luxembourg-City candidate and integration minister Corinne Cahen (DP) joined us in the studio to talk about Election Day etiquette and the do’s and don’ts of choosing your future commune representatives.

No Stupid Questions, Education, Culture
Sant Jordi Celebrations In Luxembourg - Interview With Toni Montserrat From The Centre Catala
Culture
Sant Jordi Celebrations In Luxembourg - Interview With Toni Montserrat From The Centre Catala
Culture

This weekend the Centre Catala de Luxembourg invite you to celebrate the traditional catalan holiday of Sant Jordi and experience their culture and gastronomy with the catalan community of Luxembourg. Toni Montserrat from the Centre joined Tom on the phone to talk about what's in store for the celebrations.

Culture
Julia Zhang about the Chinese women's club
Culture, socials issues
Julia Zhang about the Chinese women's club
Culture, socials issues

The Chinese women's club celebrates their 5th anniversary this spring. In our interview, president Julia Zhang explains why the need for such a community exists.

Culture, socials issues
Talking St Patrick's Day With Niamh From The Irish Hour
Culture
Talking St Patrick's Day With Niamh From The Irish Hour
Culture

Happy St Patrick's Day! To mark the occasion, Tom and Joanne were joined on the show this morning by Niamh Ní Mhathúna, host of the Irish hour on Ara City Radio to discuss why St Patrick's day is such a big deal, how they celebrate it in Ireland and how people can celebrate it tonight in Luxembourg.

Culture
Celebrate Nauryz with the Kazakhstan - Luxembourg Cooperation ASBL
Culture
Celebrate Nauryz with the Kazakhstan - Luxembourg Cooperation ASBL
Culture

Nauryz is an ancient traditional festival that is celebrated in Kazakstan as well as in Central Asia, Balkans, the Black Sea Basin, the Caucasus, the Middle East and other regions. It marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring and can be traced back over 5000 years as a pure expression of appreciation of the nature, its cycles and celebration of life.

Culture

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