• Listen LIVE
  • Shows
  • News
  • Good news
  • Features
  • Local Matters
  • About
  • Support & Advertise
ARA City Radio
  • Listen LIVE
  • Shows
  • News
  • Good news
  • Features
  • Local Matters
  • About
  • Support & Advertise
 

FEATURES THIS WEEK

 
Featured
What’s Right: Decades of Protection Help Endangered Whales Rebound
Dec 12, 2025
What’s Right: Decades of Protection Help Endangered Whales Rebound
Dec 12, 2025

After years of struggle, there’s promising news from Canada’s Atlantic waters: northern bottlenose whales. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Dec 12, 2025
What’s right: Gene-edited cells reversing “incurable” blood cancer
Dec 11, 2025
What’s right: Gene-edited cells reversing “incurable” blood cancer
Dec 11, 2025

A scientific breakthrough once thought impossible has given new hope to patients facing one of the most aggressive and fatal blood cancers. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Dec 11, 2025
The Gift of Yoga: Zoé Galassi from Yoga am Minett
Dec 9, 2025
The Gift of Yoga: Zoé Galassi from Yoga am Minett
Dec 9, 2025

As a part of our ARA City advent calendar we spoke to Zoé Galassi, who is the co-founder of Yoga am Minett. Tune in to the full interview to learn about Yoga in the south of Luxembourg, the need to improve accessibility to the practice and to hear her thoughts on our listener-suggested fake Yoga pose names.

Dec 9, 2025
What’s Right: Iceland Moves to End Fur Farming
Dec 9, 2025
What’s Right: Iceland Moves to End Fur Farming
Dec 9, 2025

In a major win for animal welfare and environment, Iceland is nearing the end of its fur-farming era. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Dec 9, 2025
The Environment on Margaritas, ravens and first singles
Dec 5, 2025
The Environment on Margaritas, ravens and first singles
Dec 5, 2025

On the Breakfast show, Hembadoon interviewed the newcomer band The Environment. They presented their new single Stars. Catch them on 10 January for their first concert at MK Bar in Belval.

Dec 5, 2025
 Money Talks: Patrick Augustin on Finance, Mindset, and Real-World Learning
Dec 2, 2025
Money Talks: Patrick Augustin on Finance, Mindset, and Real-World Learning
Dec 2, 2025

On the latest Money Talks episode, Patrick Augustin explores how mindset, curiosity, and real-world learning shape careers in finance. He explains why managing emotions, embracing uncertainty, and investing in personal growth matter for long-term success.

Dec 2, 2025
Introducing Luxembourg’s vegan Christmas market
Dec 2, 2025
Introducing Luxembourg’s vegan Christmas market
Dec 2, 2025

We spoke to Cathy Bleser from the Vegan Society of Luxembourg about their upcoming event on the 6th and 7th of December, a Christmas market that is 100% vegan. Tune in to the full interview to hear more about what to expect over the weekend.

Dec 2, 2025
What’s Right: How Uruguay Built a Near-100% Renewable Power Grid
Dec 2, 2025
What’s Right: How Uruguay Built a Near-100% Renewable Power Grid
Dec 2, 2025

Over the past two decades, Uruguay transformed its electricity system. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Dec 2, 2025
 Whats Right: Bank accounts for homeless people
Dec 1, 2025
Whats Right: Bank accounts for homeless people
Dec 1, 2025

The UK has introduced a plan allowing homeless people to open bank accounts without a fixed address. Get all the details on today's "What's right with the world."

Dec 1, 2025
 Protest: Make Amazon Pay
Nov 28, 2025
Protest: Make Amazon Pay
Nov 28, 2025

Non-profit organisations hold a joint protest against Amazon today. Under slogan "Make Amazon Pay", the coalition urges the company to pay an outstanding 746-million-euro fine for breaching EU data rules. In our interview, André Marques, representative of the left party Déi Lenk, one of the organisations joining the protest, explains their demands.

Nov 28, 2025
Stand-up in Luxembourg: Interview with Renée Percy
Nov 27, 2025
Stand-up in Luxembourg: Interview with Renée Percy
Nov 27, 2025

We had the pleasure of speaking to Canadian-American comedian Renée Percy ahead of her anticipated Luxembourg show.

Renée has featured in numerous shows on Canadian and American TV as well as being featured on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV. On Saturday the 29th of November she is bringing her stand-up show to INNSiDE by Meliá.

Tune in to the full interview to find out more!

Nov 27, 2025
What’s Right: Colombia Says “No More” to New Oil and Mining in the Amazon
Nov 25, 2025
What’s Right: Colombia Says “No More” to New Oil and Mining in the Amazon
Nov 25, 2025

Colombian Amazon has officially been declared off-limits for any new oil or large-scale mining projects. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Nov 25, 2025
The Bazar International is back!
Nov 21, 2025
The Bazar International is back!
Nov 21, 2025

The Bazar International de Luxembourg returns for another year at the Luxexpo in Kirchberg. We spoke to Sonia Reyes-Frausto about the event that brings together more than a thousand volunteers to celebrate multiculturalism in Luxembourg.

Nov 21, 2025
'Word in Progress' English Literature Evening organised by Kulturfabrik
Nov 21, 2025
'Word in Progress' English Literature Evening organised by Kulturfabrik
Nov 21, 2025

We spoke to Georges Goerens from Kulturfabrik about Word in Progress, their English literature evening which is part of the Walfer Bicherdeeg. Tune in to hear all about the event!

Nov 21, 2025
What’s Right: A Cream Could Replace Insulin Injections
Nov 21, 2025
What’s Right: A Cream Could Replace Insulin Injections
Nov 21, 2025

Skin cream could soon replace insulin injections. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Nov 21, 2025
What’s Right: Free Buses in Iowa City Clear the Air and Ease Traffic
Nov 20, 2025
What’s Right: Free Buses in Iowa City Clear the Air and Ease Traffic
Nov 20, 2025

Iowa City launched a free-bus program that’s showing remarkable results. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Nov 20, 2025
What’s Right with the World: UCLA Faculty Stand Up for Academic Freedom
Nov 19, 2025
What’s Right with the World: UCLA Faculty Stand Up for Academic Freedom
Nov 19, 2025

U.S. federal court blocked the Trump administration from cutting off federal funding to UCLA. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Nov 19, 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

Copyright © 2024 • Disclaimer • Privacy Policy