{"id":13629,"date":"2015-06-16T07:38:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T11:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13629"},"modified":"2015-06-16T07:39:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T11:39:11","slug":"switzerlands-international-voice-in-a-changing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/switzerlands-international-voice-in-a-changing-world\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Switzerland\u2019s international voice in a changing world&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4378\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SwissShortWave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4378\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4378\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SwissShortWave.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: SwissInfo.ch)\" width=\"277\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SwissShortWave.jpg 277w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SwissShortWave-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: SwissInfo.ch)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to my buddy, <a href=\"http:\/\/medxr.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Wagner<\/a>, for passing along yet another great article with archived sound clips from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/culture\/cold-war-broadcasting-_switzerland-s-international-voice-in-a-changing-world\/41471476\" target=\"_blank\">Swiss Radio International<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/culture\/cold-war-broadcasting-_switzerland-s-international-voice-in-a-changing-world\/41471476\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read <em>Switzerland\u2019s international voice in a changing world<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to my buddy, Rob Wagner, for passing along yet another great article with archived sound clips from Swiss Radio International. Click here to read Switzerland\u2019s international voice in a changing world. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,305,288,43],"tags":[2603,3897,1350,1352],"class_list":["post-13629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-switzerland","tag-swiss-radio-international","tag-swiss-short-wave-service","tag-switzerland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3xP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47074,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/swissinfo-shares-a-holiday-recording-from-their-archives\/","url_meta":{"origin":13629,"position":0},"title":"SwissInfo shares a holiday recording from their archives","author":"Thomas","date":"December 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia (LW4DAF), who shares the following note from SwissInfo.ch: Since you're no doubt wondering what Christmas sounds like in Switzerland's four national languages, we've dusted off an old radio interview, produced in 1975 by the Swiss Short-wave Service, later Swiss Radio International and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/switzerland-e1609337972639.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/switzerland-e1609337972639.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/switzerland-e1609337972639.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/switzerland-e1609337972639.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":40449,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/when-the-world-got-its-news-from-shortwave-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":13629,"position":1},"title":"&#8220;When the world got its news from shortwave radio&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"November 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dennis Dura, who shares the following article from SwissInfo.ch. Make sure you visit SwissInfo.ch to listen to their embedded recordings: What did SWI swissinfo.ch sound like for the first seven decades of its existence? 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