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Groundhog Day. Again.

Published on 29th December 2020

The first television tower in the world, built in 1956 near Stuttgart in Germany. www.fernsehturmstuttgart.com/en/

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The first television tower in the world, built in 1956 near Stuttgart in Germany. www.fernsehturmstuttgart.com/en/

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The first television tower in the world, built in 1956 near Stuttgart in Germany. www.fernsehturmstuttgart.com/en/

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The first television tower in the world, built in 1956 near Stuttgart in Germany. www.fernsehturmstuttgart.com/en/

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The first television tower in the world, built in 1956 near Stuttgart in Germany. www.fernsehturmstuttgart.com/en/

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The first television tower in the world, built in 1956 near Stuttgart in Germany. www.fernsehturmstuttgart.com/en/

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I like being up high. When we were in Stuttgart at the beginning of October, I could therefore hardly turn up the chance to visit the restaurant at the top of the world’s first concrete television tower. I am a little scared of heights when on man-made structures, but I managed to overcome a wobbly-knees […]

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A clip from BBC series Human Planet, showing avalanche control of the mountains near Grindelwald in Switzerland.

Funky Kitchen Club is a Swiss television series, produced in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland by Mountain Multi Media in association with ProSieben Switzerland.

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I’m not usually one for political speaking or speakers who hold forth on environmental issues. Quite often, I find the subject boring or repetitive, the speaker uninteresting or the presentation so uninspiring, that it makes my brain shut off altogether. This evening, however, an hour and a half of Swiss channel SF2‘s evening programming was […]

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This is the short “making of” film which precedes the first Funky Kitchen Club show tomorrow evening. The “making of” film is due to be shown on ProSieben Switzerland in about 20 minutes, at 17.50 (CET). I’m featured (just visible, not interviewed) in this film at 2 minutes 22 seconds and 8 minutes 10 seconds […]