Euro, dissolve?

First Greece, then Ireland, and now? The eurozone is in a bit of a mess, and the way out is unclear. European leaders who met for a crisis summit mid-December felt the pressure to create a permanent debt mechanism for 2013, when the temporary European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) will run out. This sounds rather productive [...]

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Up and coming designers – Radio Feature

This is my 7 minute radio feature, produced with Clem Silverman. Who are the people that decide what’s in this summer? Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and Calvin Klein are huge names in the fashion industry. But they all had to start somewhere. Stefanie Linhardt and Clem Silverman have been exploring how people have kick-started their [...]

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And then there was the cloud… or the German who desperately tried to get to the UK

Who would have guessed life stops because of a cloud? I certainly didn’t! But, how easily you can be mistaken showed the most recent cloud… A cloud of ash – the ash cloud – left Europe completely helpless… Me included… When my friend Tina said to me on Thursday: “A volcano erupted in Iceland – and [...]

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And the lights are out…

That must be how people lived in the 18th century – my first thought sitting on the toilet when the lights went out. Unfortunately, this time it wasn’t just the switch on the switch-box, and it wasn’t just the lights. No electricity at all, that is the truth… And not only my flat doesn’t have [...]

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Boris raises Tube and Bus fares

Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, today announced higher fares for Transport for London customers in 2010. Read here: Two new posts on our news-blog Courant 7: London Holds Breath for Transport Announcement Tomorrow Bus and Tube fares to rise in 2010

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