Lisa Burke Show

RTL - Lisa Burke•today.rtl.lu

A place for conversation that spans life in Luxembourg and beyond. Each week an international guest list will reflect on the week’s news, plus a whole host of other topics: politics to pollination; education to entrepreneurship; science to singing. Luxembourg sits in the beating heart of Europe and its diverse population provides a global perspective on a number of world issues.

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Sven Clement and Djuna Bernard, 23/09/2023

Today's political interviewees come from the Pirate Party and The Greens, and join me with Sasha Kehoe from Today Radio. Sven Clement and Djuna Bernard were both the youngest people elected to parliament at different times. Sven possibly has the best website domain name in Luxembourg: sven.lu, and is highly active across all social media, including Tictok. In 2009, Sven co-founded the Pirate Party in Luxembourg and became its first President. Amongst other things he is a successful entrepreneur ...

Sep 23, 2023•1 hr

Franz Fayot, 22/09/2023

Minister of the Economy and Minister for Development Cooperation & Humanitarian Affairs for Luxembourg. Franz Fayot joined LSAP in 1994 and became its chairman in 2019. Before being elected, Minister Fayot was a barrister, appointed to Parliament in 2013 and 2018. In Parliament, Franz Fayot assumed the role of rapporteur for the draft budget for 2015 and focused on public finances, cultural policy, as well as on social justice and poverty issues. Following the cabinet reshuffle on 4 February...

Sep 22, 2023•32 min

Iran, one year on, and Creative Convergence, 16/09/2023

Four Iranian emigrants talk about their homeland one year after the death of Masha Amini, and Laurent Uhres tells us about the inspiration behind his book. Iran - the situation one year on Masha Amini died on 16 September 2022, aged just 22 years, in the hands of the morality police in Tehran, Iran. Since then, there's been international coverage of the bravery of other women, and men, in the face of the morality police. Mass protests, crackdowns, women defying the defined dress code... things s...

Sep 16, 2023•1 hr

Cookery, Comedy and Slamming it, 09/09/2023

Matteo Ressa, CEO of ChefPassport, Monica Serban, economist turned screenwriter and Adelene Lai from Science Slam talk with Lisa Burke ChefPassport - Matteo Ressa From tech maven to culinary visionary, Matteo Ressa talks about his global cook-meets-tech start-up ChefPassport. Italian by origin, Matteo Ressa is CEO and co-founder of ChefPassport, which combines his cultural love of food with a background career working in digital innovation for companies such as Amazon, Vodafone and BMW. Matteo's...

Sep 09, 2023•52 min

How to make a decision, 01/09/2023

Michelle Florendo, a decision engineer, talks about her craft. Plus, Today Radio's Sarah Tapp tells us about the ongoing situation in her homeland of Hawaii. The Craft of Decision-Making I've wanted to talk to Michelle Florendo ever since I read about her work as a decision engineer. There are many times in our lives, personal and professional, when we are faced with very difficult decisions. Most of us are not 'taught' at school how to make a good decision, and there there is a whole science be...

Sep 01, 2023•57 min

Oenology - the Science of Wine Making, 26/08/2023

Jean Cao, oenologist, is the special guest on today's show after a global news review with Sasha Kehoe. News Review After a few weeks away it's great to be back in the studio with a long-overdue look-back at the week's / the summer's news with Sasha Kehoe. And it's been a busy summer! Once more, the blond-one, whose name I won't mention here, has his mug-shot across most news feeds, and many more besides too. Our news review covers everything from the Prigozhin plane crash in Russia to the baby ...

Aug 26, 2023•1 hr

Work / Life balance doesn't exist, 11/08/2023

Summer is a time when many of us take a holiday, change the scene, pause, breathe and reflect on the direction life is carrying us. Many people find themselves on a treadmill of life, having to provide for family or themselves, hand-cuffed to jobs that pay the bills but don’t fulfil them inwardly. And so, the role of a career or life coach is more sought after than ever before, as more of us seek to find contentment with our work. My guests are three such coaches. Dr Keith Amoss specialises in w...

Aug 11, 2023•1 hr 4 min

Education and Wine Culture Enjoy, 29/07/2023

This week on the Lisa Burke Show, Lisa catches up with Alain Massen, Ulrik Møller and Nathalie Neiers. Parents groups in Education Alain Massen, President of the National Parents’ Representation in Luxembourg since 2020, and Ulrik Møller, President of the Parents Association International School Michel Lucius Primary School, join me to talk about the importance of the parents’ voice in the Luxembourg school system. Alain speaks of the need for a partnership between parents and teachers, how this...

Jul 29, 2023•59 min

Humans ever more important in a world of AI, 16/07/2023

This week on the Lisa Burke Show, experts on AI and ChatGPT foresee a world where critical thinking will be king. AI, Chat GPT… the world of automation and replication of ‘easy’ tasks will continue to rise around us. This week my guests talk about the power of AI but also the continued and changing importance of our role as humans to negotiate with these tools. Martin Jonsson, editorial lead for RTL Today and deputy head of digital products, has been tasked with leading RTL Luxembourg's AI workg...

Jul 16, 2023•1 hr

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