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FEATURES THIS WEEK

 
Featured
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
What’s right: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention camp to be dismantled
Aug 29, 2025
What’s right: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention camp to be dismantled
Aug 29, 2025

Florida’s controversial migrant detention camp—nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz”—is set to close just weeks after it opened. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Aug 29, 2025
What’s right: Mexico, Guatemala & Belize Unite to Save the Jungle
Aug 28, 2025
What’s right: Mexico, Guatemala & Belize Unite to Save the Jungle
Aug 28, 2025

Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize have announced the creation of the Great Mayan Jungle Biocultural Corridor. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Aug 28, 2025
Celebrate community and sustainability with the Kolla festival
Aug 27, 2025
Celebrate community and sustainability with the Kolla festival
Aug 27, 2025

We were joined in the studio by Marie Trussart, who is one of the organisers of the Kolla Music and Arts festival taking place from the 5-7th of September.

Aug 27, 2025
What’s right: EU greenlights a twice-yearly HIV prevention injection
Aug 27, 2025
What’s right: EU greenlights a twice-yearly HIV prevention injection
Aug 27, 2025

The European Union has just taken a massive leap forward in HIV prevention. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Aug 27, 2025
What’s right: Kenya Eliminates Sleeping Sickness
Aug 26, 2025
What’s right: Kenya Eliminates Sleeping Sickness
Aug 26, 2025

Kenya has officially declared the country free of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT)—commonly known as sleeping sickness. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Aug 26, 2025
Interview with Ann Muller from LUGA
Aug 22, 2025
Interview with Ann Muller from LUGA
Aug 22, 2025

We spoke to Ann Muller about the ongoing Luxembourg Urban Garden Exhibition.

Aug 22, 2025
What’s right: Vermont’s plastic bag ban slashes usage by 91%
Aug 22, 2025
What’s right: Vermont’s plastic bag ban slashes usage by 91%
Aug 22, 2025

Plastic bag usage dropped a staggering 91% following a plastic ban in Vermont. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Aug 22, 2025
What’s right: Denmark combatting the reading crisis
Aug 21, 2025
What’s right: Denmark combatting the reading crisis
Aug 21, 2025

Denmark is making books more accessible by abolishing its 25% VAT. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Aug 21, 2025
What’s right: Device clears tumors in 82% of treatment-resistant bladder cancer patients
Aug 20, 2025
What’s right: Device clears tumors in 82% of treatment-resistant bladder cancer patients
Aug 20, 2025

Researchers have developed an innovative drug delivery device that has shown remarkable success in tackling one of the toughest forms of bladder cancer. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Aug 20, 2025
What’s right: Welfare Policies Lift 13.4 Million Mexicans Out of Poverty
Aug 19, 2025
What’s right: Welfare Policies Lift 13.4 Million Mexicans Out of Poverty
Aug 19, 2025

Sweeping welfare reforms in Mexico helped 13.4 million people escape poverty—a remarkable 26% drop in national poverty levels. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Aug 19, 2025
New Music Monday Tracks - 19/08/2025
Aug 18, 2025
New Music Monday Tracks - 19/08/2025
Aug 18, 2025

Listen to our New Music Monday songs and let us know your favourite to become Track of the Week!

Aug 18, 2025
What’s right: Iceland Foods fights food waste in the UK
Aug 14, 2025
What’s right: Iceland Foods fights food waste in the UK
Aug 14, 2025

Iceland Foods, the popular frozen food supermarket chain in the UK, has launched a nationwide initiative to tackle food waste while helping customers save money. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Aug 14, 2025
What’s right:  Person with type 1 diabetes produces their own insulin
Aug 13, 2025
What’s right: Person with type 1 diabetes produces their own insulin
Aug 13, 2025

For the first time, a person with type 1 diabetes produces their own insulin after gene-edited cell transplant. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Aug 13, 2025
What’s right: Four-Day Workweek Boosts Happiness and Performance
Aug 12, 2025
What’s right: Four-Day Workweek Boosts Happiness and Performance
Aug 12, 2025

The biggest global trial for a 4-day work week just wrapped up, running across six countries and involving companies in all sorts of industries. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Aug 12, 2025
What’s right: Free Summer Meals for Every Child in NYC
Aug 8, 2025
What’s right: Free Summer Meals for Every Child in NYC
Aug 8, 2025

New York City is offering free summer meals to all children 18 and under — no registration, no ID, no strings attached. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Aug 8, 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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