FM4 Reality Check Podcast

enice, La Serenissima, is one of the most celebrated and glorious cities in the world. But mass tourism has damaged its charm and ecology. Chris Cummins travels by train, bike and boat to see if there is more sustainable was to enjoy the Veneto region and understand its water-side culture? Sendungshinweis: OKFm4 14.04.2023 18.40

Venice, La Serenissima, is one of the most celebrated and glorious cities in the world. But mass tourism has damaged its charm and ecology. Chris Cummins travels by train, bike and boat to see if there is more sustainable was to enjoy the Veneto region and understand its water-side culture? Sendungshinweis: OKFm4 14.04.2023 18.40

96-year old Erika Freeman grew up in Vienna in the 1930s and as a young Jewish girl was persecuted by the Nazis who put her father in a concentration camp. She fled to New York at the age of twelve and, eventually, became a renowned psychoanalyst to the stars and friend and adviser to Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe. Now back in Austria she told fm4's Chris Cummins out about her childhood experiences under the Nazis.

It’s World Water Day today. an opportunity to talk about rivers, which are generally in a poor state of health in Europe. But Last week Europe’s first wild river national park was announced in Albania. The Vjosa River will remain free for its entire length of 270kms. Ulrich Eichelmann, founder of Riverwatch, tells Chris Cummins about this important and magnficent river. Sendungshinweiss 22.03.23 OKfm4 17.40

Nina Krushcheva is a political scientist at New York’s New School university and also the great-grand daughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Kruschchev. she has her head in the Russian and western ways of thinking and she has spent 6 months of the past year in Moscow. She tells Chris Cummins how the war in Ukraine is impacting Russian society. Sendungshinweis 15.03.23 OK Fm4 17.40

Austrian doctor Daniel Uy has spent the past three months in Ukraine running two mobile clinics for Doctors Without Borders in a area recaptured only by the Ukrainians. He was helping people cut off for months from medical help, but working conditions were very difficult. He told Chris Cummins about it: Sendungshinweis 09.02.23 16.20

With the end of the Bolsonaro era in Brazil, and the beginning of a new presidency of Lula da Silva hope have been high that the speed of destruction in the Amazon can be slowed and then reversed. Austrian filmmaker Richard Ladkani is in Brazil accompanying some indigenous leaders in this era of new hope. Klimanews Weekly with Chris Cummins Sendungshinweis 24.02.23

We hear a lot about the US space agency NASA when its rockets blast off towards the Moon and beyond. But its work on Earth is arguably even more important: NASA’s chief scientist Katherine Calvin has been in Vienna this week at the Austrian Academy of Sciences talking to Chris Cummins about NASA and the climate crisis: Sendungshinweis: 17.02.23 9uhr

As the climate changes, everything will have to change. The way we grow food, the way we make money, the way we keep ourselves safe. That's why "adaptation" is an important word in the lexicon on climate policy Dr Lisa Schipper of the University of Bonn tells fm4's Chris Cummins what adaptation means. Sendungshinweis: OK fm4, 10.02.23 17 Uhr

Each year, governments around the world pour around hundreds of billions of dollars into artificially lowering the price of fossil fuels; that’s more than triple what renewables receive. Chris Cummins looks at why with Ipek Gencsu of the thinktank ODI