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Why the pop world is currently relying so heavily on old hits. How oil has been leaking from a pipeline in Nigeria for 14 years without a break. And why in Vienna, unlike in Zurich, rents are still affordable. Here are our podcast tips of the week.
Why the pop world relies so heavily on hits from the past
“Pop is stuck in a nostalgia loop,” says a music connoisseur. We want to hear the familiar, repackaged. About every fifth song in the charts is currently a recycled hit. This is called interpolation in technical jargon. David Guetta does it. Dua Lipa does it. And you know what? Even the melody of the US national anthem is copied. It originally comes from a British drinking song. Bottom up.
Housing shortage: What are Vienna and Copenhagen doing better?
We know that the housing market in this country is a tough place. 3000 francs for a 2.5 room apartment in Zurich Oerlikon. Uff. Copenhagen and Vienna, on the other hand, seem to have the problem under control. How do you do that?
“Oil has been leaking from the pipeline here for 14 years and nobody is patching the hole?”
SRF correspondent Anna Lemmenmeier can hardly believe it. She takes the listener acoustically to a farmer in a field in Nigeria. To the place where oil has been leaking out of a defective Shell pipeline for 14 years. Millions of liters of oil are extracted in the region every day. But the general population has none of it. Except environmental destruction and poverty.
In conversation with director Bettina Oberli
The first half hour of this «Focus» is also a journey to a distant land. It goes to Samoa, Polynesia. The director Bettina Oberli impressively tells of the life’s work of her father, who founded a hospital at the end of the world. She also shares what that did to her as a daughter. How she made her way to become a successful director. And why she never makes a film without a pencil in her hand.
Does part-time work harm society?
Our prosperity is at risk, says Simon Wey, chief economist at the Swiss Employers’ Association. Part-time work ensures satisfied employees, says Daniel Lampart, chief economist at the Swiss Confederation of Trade Unions. The two gentlemen sat opposite each other in the “talk of the day”. A 30 minute debate.