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FEATURES THIS WEEK

 
Featured
ACL Knowledge Bites: Vignettes in Europe
Jul 4, 2025
ACL Knowledge Bites: Vignettes in Europe
Jul 4, 2025

Learn more about what you might need to drive around Europe on your holidays this year with the latest episode of ACL Knowledge Bites.

Jul 4, 2025
This week's gig guide is overflowing!
Jul 2, 2025
This week's gig guide is overflowing!
Jul 2, 2025

There is so much going on in the music scene this week in Luxembourg, from outdoor shows and free festivals to anniversary tours that my only recommendation is to go and see something!

Jul 2, 2025
 Local Matters: Towards a refugee assembly
Jul 2, 2025
Local Matters: Towards a refugee assembly
Jul 2, 2025

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.

Jul 2, 2025
What’s Right: Mexico Bans Dolphin Shows Nationwide
Jul 2, 2025
What’s Right: Mexico Bans Dolphin Shows Nationwide
Jul 2, 2025

The Mexican Senate voted unanimously (99–0) to amend the nation’s General Wildlife Law, prohibiting the use of dolphins, seals, and other marine mammals in tourism performances and “hands-on” activities with tourists. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Jul 2, 2025
Needle Spiking Raises Safety Concerns Ahead of Summer Events
Jul 1, 2025
Needle Spiking Raises Safety Concerns Ahead of Summer Events
Jul 1, 2025

With reports of ‘needle spiking’ making headlines, find out more about the real situation and how to stay safe in this interview with PIPAPO.

Jul 1, 2025
What’s Right: Denmark Protects Your Face and Voice with Copyright Law
Jul 1, 2025
What’s Right: Denmark Protects Your Face and Voice with Copyright Law
Jul 1, 2025

Denmark is poised to pass a ground-breaking law granting copyright protections to individuals over their own image, voice, and likeness. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Jul 1, 2025
What’s Right: Heart Attack Deaths Soar Down
Jun 27, 2025
What’s Right: Heart Attack Deaths Soar Down
Jun 27, 2025

Deaths from heart attacks have plummeted nearly 90% since 1970, thanks to medical breakthroughs and public health gains. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Jun 27, 2025
TALI is joining 1,000 school children for a special performance at the Philharmonie
Jun 26, 2025
TALI is joining 1,000 school children for a special performance at the Philharmonie
Jun 26, 2025

TALI is joining 1,000 primary school age children on stage for a special performance at the Luxembourg Philharmonie.

Jun 26, 2025
What’s Right: Bagging the Litter Problem
Jun 26, 2025
What’s Right: Bagging the Litter Problem
Jun 26, 2025

Researchers analyzed data from over 45,000 shoreline cleanups across the U.S. and found that bans and fees on plastic bags are working. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Jun 26, 2025
PwC People Pulse: Embracing Global Careers
Jun 25, 2025
PwC People Pulse: Embracing Global Careers
Jun 25, 2025

The latest episode of the PwC People Pulse concerns moving country and the ups and downs that follow.

Jun 25, 2025
What’s Right: Independent Experts Rally to Safeguard Vaccine Policy
Jun 25, 2025
What’s Right: Independent Experts Rally to Safeguard Vaccine Policy
Jun 25, 2025

In response to recent shakeups at the CDC, major medical organizations and independent experts are stepping up to create a new, unbiased vaccine advisory panel. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Jun 25, 2025
Global Collaboration on Social Change with PADEM
Jun 24, 2025
Global Collaboration on Social Change with PADEM
Jun 24, 2025

PADEM work with partners across the world to improve the lives of children and communities. They have met up this week to discuss the work they do.

Jun 24, 2025
What’s Right: Ireland’s Last Coal Plant Bows Out—But a Green Future Rises
Jun 24, 2025
What’s Right: Ireland’s Last Coal Plant Bows Out—But a Green Future Rises
Jun 24, 2025

Moneypoint—the country’s last remaining coal-fired power station—finally shut off its coal burners, marking a historic milestone in Ireland’s fight against climate change. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Jun 24, 2025
Local Matters: Victory for political transparency and pedestrian safety
Jun 20, 2025
Local Matters: Victory for political transparency and pedestrian safety
Jun 20, 2025

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.

Jun 20, 2025
What’s Right: Up to 6 Million Americans Unite in “No Kings” Protests
Jun 20, 2025
What’s Right: Up to 6 Million Americans Unite in “No Kings” Protests
Jun 20, 2025

4 to 6 million people participated in “No Kings” protests across over 2,000 U.S. cities on June 14, 2025. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Jun 20, 2025
ACL Knowledge Bites: Luxembourg's highway net
Jun 19, 2025
ACL Knowledge Bites: Luxembourg's highway net
Jun 19, 2025

Do you know the names of our Luxembourg highways? Where do the A1, A3, A4 and A6 come from and where do they go? And why does the A13 doe her own thing? Which one is the busiest and in need of widening? All that and more in this ACL Knowledge Bites.

Jun 19, 2025
What's Right: HIV infection soon prevented for 25$ ?
Jun 19, 2025
What's Right: HIV infection soon prevented for 25$ ?
Jun 19, 2025

An innovative, long-acting injection could prevent HIV infection with just two doses a year — a significant breakthrough in prevention technology. Get all the details on today’s What’s Right!

Jun 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
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
 A midmorning with C'est Karma
Aug 23, 2024
A midmorning with C'est Karma
Aug 23, 2024
Aug 23, 2024
Interview with Nicole From De Gudde Wellen
Sep 15, 2023
Interview with Nicole From De Gudde Wellen
Sep 15, 2023
Sep 15, 2023

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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