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In this episode Tales of the world takes an experimental route to make a point. Enjoy a multi-track and polyvocal creation taking a stab at the fact that we are so well informed on just about everything, and yet, somehow, we can’t or won’t go b
It is fitting to start the new season of Tales of the world podcasts with a news story arc that happened in Geneva this August. It was broken to the public by the very local newspaper Tribune de Genève, which, for three whole days, knew the glo
En littérature, on sait qu’on se trouve devant un classique quand chacun qui le lit, et même ceux qui ne l’ont pas lu, trouve quelque chose de fort à en dire, que ce soit positif ou bien critique. Quand les échos d’une œuvre dépassent et vont b
On actionable insight and the topics that the chronicle will be looking into in the near future. Thank you for listening after so long an absence on my part! Best, Ruxandra
Sense and meaning are the two pillars on which Western civilisation and discourse are built. No matter the depths of despair or heights of euphoria onto which history may push us, the first reflex we have is to make sense of them. Rationalisati
On a sunny day in January 2015, while taking a break from very serious interviews in Kathmandu, we went for a visit at the Swayambhunath temple (the monkey temple). Amidst many playful and warring monkeys we also found a singing bowls shop, own
This week, December 5th, Tales of the World celebrates three years of existence. Three years of mostly incompetent international relations, dismal economics, some of the bloodiest and animalistic conflicts in recent memory and a general sense o
Le titre choisi pour cette chronique, « 25 ans après », vous rappelle-t-il un autre ? Pour un féru des aventures des mousquetaires d’Alexandre Dumas, la réponse est évidente, mais, au cas où vous ne les connaissez pas, « 20 ans après » est un r
Last week the Nobel Prize Committee announced that this year, the Nobel Prize for medicine went to three researchers for their groundbreaking work on discovering and confirming the existence of what the media calls the “inner GPS” of the brain,
Dernièrement, j’appréhende les événements et l’analyse de l’actualité en lisant et écoutant des œuvres littéraires. Je trouve que, de près ou de loin, les histoires que je lis arrivent à exprimer très bien le désespoir ou l’enthousiasme de tell
Many things are currently creeping into our existence, under our benevolent, but mostly disinterested and ignorant gaze. With our senses numbed or dizzied by the hardships of everyday life and the spectacle of cruelty and incompetence on the in
Le trait définitoire d’un univers qui bascule, d’un monde qui change, d’un ordre qui se défait est l’avènement des mots, de situations, des pensées et des actes qui juste la veille étaient considérés comme impensables et inadmissibles. Non pas
Do you remember what you learnt about WW1 and the epoch surrounding it when you studied it in school or at university? The story went like this: world war 1 was the conflict which was meant to end all conflicts, it signified the end of the lon
L’Etat, est-il juste la somme de ses composantes ou leur sublimation ? Afin de répondre à cette question, j’ai pensé à une analogie culinaire se référant à mon enfance. Après tout, il me semble que L’Etat, c’est comme la mayonnaise :
What do the Tienanmen square 25 year commemoration, the X-men, Thomas Piketty – the author of the much debated Capital in the 21st century and Michael Lewis – the author of the best seller Flash boys – the money code, have in common?
Quand les affaires du monde atteignent une certaine vitesse de croisière, à savoir, les différentes factions combattantes s’entretuent de manière régulière en Syrie, Ukrainiens et Russes continuent la ronde absurde de démagogie et violence, l’E
Acronyms, abbreviations and hashtags. Credit cards, smart phone apps and bookmarks. Promises, repression and lies, our lives are full of shortcuts to knowledge, information, power, wealth and entertainment. Everyday, whether we need them or not
Cela fait quelque temps que je suis tentée d’écrire un podcast sur la série américaine qui nous a tous conquis avec ses sanguinaires intrigues et crimes amoraux, que nous connaissons en français sous le nom du Trône de fer et en anglais, de Gam
“We speak so much of memory, because there is so little of it left”, Pierre Nora, French historian and identity scholar tells us. Not only that, but it would also seem that, while we commemorate the tragic highlights of our civilisation’s inhum
Buying furniture in an IKEA shop is perhaps one of the most uncontroversially universal experiences of modern life. We know that even Syrian refugees and Indian fakirs are not spared the trials and tribulations of the products of the IKEA imper
Loin des titres objectifs et presque techniques auxquels les journaux nous ont accoutumés dans leurs reportages sur les révoltes autour du monde, ces jours-ci, quand on parlait d’Ukraine, à la une des journaux déferlait une vague d’hyperbole
Ukraine, Syria, Bosnia, Venezuela – the rise of a new Axial Age? What do the protests in Ukraine, the rebellion in Syria, the student uprisings in Venezuela and people’s revolt in Bosnia have in common? Some time ago I was writing an op-ed in t
What happens when the tragic in a cultural context meets the influences of a rather different approach to life… In earlier in editions of Tales of the world, I touched on the metaphorical condition of women in Russia, noting that from the unkno
Dans cet épisode, une histoire se raconte à propos de dette et de liberté. En compagnie du Lullaby de Johannes Brahms et d’une recénte couverture de The Economist…
2014 is well underway, engulfed in its own scoops, tragedies and political controversies. Unlike other years, events will happen in light of a very special lens: the fact that in 2014 we commemorate 100 years since the start of the First World
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