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🗓️ 1 August 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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A British ex-pat tells us what it's like to live in Switzerland, and explains why the Swiss are deliberately different from the rest of their European neighbors. We'll also get pointers for fun things to explore on a weekend in Wales from one of that country's top tour guides. And a musician from Orvieto provides examples of the different styles of folk and traditional music you can enjoy across Italy.
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0:00.0 | How do the Swiss do it? Their landlocked mash-up of four official languages separated by |
0:06.5 | Europe's tallest mountains somehow remains one of the most stable and affluent countries |
0:11.0 | in the world. |
0:12.0 | And so there's really nothing holding the country together apart from the fact |
0:15.4 | that the people want to be a country together and that has always been the case |
0:19.5 | and that's roughly what makes Switzerland succeed. |
0:22.1 | author Dicken Buse lets us in and how the Swiss that's roughly what makes Switzerland succeed. |
0:23.0 | Author Dickenbews lets us in on how the Swiss have managed to build a prosperous multicultural |
0:27.3 | nation that stands apart from the rest of Europe. |
0:31.2 | Regional differences in Italy make for a fertile environment for the arts. |
0:35.0 | Naples and Rome are only a couple of hour drive away from each other, |
0:39.0 | but they're two different worlds when it comes to music. |
0:42.0 | And what sets the Welsh apart from the rest of Britain? |
0:45.0 | So the Welsh were never understood linguistically. |
0:48.0 | They were different from the Anglo-Saxons. |
0:49.0 | They were foreigners. |
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