Podcasts 4 Brainport, featured by Radio 4 Brainport, 747AM and DAB+

 In 2020, even the animal rescue shelters did not have any cats or dogs anymore that were still searching for a new owner. Do you have a cat or a dog? Maybe you always already enjoyed having a pet to entertain the house, not just now. Are you looking for someone to take care of it during vacation time? Join our conversation on Tuesday. Meow-Talk on DAB+, and 747 and 828 AM, Part 2 During the...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many have decided to buy/adopt pets in response to social isolation and 'free time' because of remote work, leading to unprecedented rise in pet ownership, long waiting list and high pet price. However, now that everything is starting to get back to normal, there is rising concern with the animal welfare. Let's enjoy the discussion, co-hosted by Stephen Harianto and J...

Just a five minute walk from Eindhoven Central Railway Station, the Philips Museum emerges you in the history of the company that shaped the Brainport region. Right at the spot where Gerard Philips produced his first light bulbs in 1891, you see how Philips is constantly reinventing itself and playing an pivotal role in societal changes with innovative technology. First with electric light, later...

A silence on CD is really a silence. The CD offered unprecedented dynamics and changed the music industry. Digital music came in the 80s.    Just a five minute walk from Eindhoven Central Railway Station, the Philips Museum emerges you in the history of the company that shaped the Brainport region. Right at the spot where Gerard Philips produced his first light bulbs in 1891, you see how...

Making light bulbs, making good vacuum, laid the foundation for a huge business in radio tubes and in radio sets. But the 30s were also the decade that Louis Kalff created a corporate identity by standardzing the well known starts and waves Philips Logo.  Design and technology go hand in hand. Just a five minute walk from Eindhoven Central Railway Station, the Philips Museum emerges you in th...

What do 2021 and 1891 have in common: an older brother leads the technology while the younger brother turns it into business. And Breda, not Eindhoven, almost became THE city of light.   Just a five minute walk from Eindhoven Central Railway Station, the Philips Museum emerges you in the history of the company that shaped the Brainport region. Right at the spot where Gerard Philips produced h...

The first factory, where the production of lamps was brought to perfection, laying the foundation for Xray and radio tubes later on. Just a five minute walk from Eindhoven Central Railway Station, the Philips Museum emerges you in the history of the company that shaped the Brainport region. Right at the spot where Gerard Philips produced his first light bulbs in 1891, you see how Philips is consta...

What must it have meant in a society characterized by Vincent van Gogh so well in the “Potato Eaters” painting in 1885? In 1891, Philips brought electric light can changed the dynamics of the region for good. Just a five minute walk from Eindhoven Central Railway Station, the Philips Museum emerges you in the history of the company that shaped the Brainport region. Right at the spot where Gerard P...

Philips started not only to make light bulbs, but also became a company of innovations and reforms. "Getting paid while sick" meant a change in entreprenerial attitude. Just a five minute walk from Eindhoven Central Railway Station, the Philips Museum emerges you in the history of the company that shaped the Brainport region. Right at the spot where Gerard Philips produced his first light bulbs in...

" Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself" - George Bernard Shaw Do you think it’s time to work on yourself and find a new person who might have been hidden under responsibilities and pretensions? This Friday, let’s understand from our guest, Divya Shah on how she worked on herself and embarked on a journey of self-discovery. Divya is a free-lance Journalist with more th...

Do you think it’s time to work on yourself and find a new person who might have been hidden under responsibilities and pretensions? This Friday, let’s understand from our guest, Divya Shah on how she worked on herself and embarked on a journey of self-discovery. Divya is a free-lance Journalist with more than 12 years of experience. She worked as a senior Correspondent with India’s leading English...

Moving to a new country for a career can be adventurous and an exciting new chapter, but at the same time, as an accompanying spouse, it can be daunting, uncertain, and putting yourself second. New job, new place, new country, a different culture, and the constant struggles, Kavitha Varathan has seen it all. Kavitha is the founder and CEO of Expat Spouses Initiative, which she set up as a grass-ro...

Choosing a career path? Settling abroad? Finding the right kind of work? Do you find yourselves lost in these questions and need support, guidance to help you work in the right direction? We have a learned guest on our Tea-Talk show, Heidi Los, Career Coach and Cultural Trainer, and founder of DESIGN YOUR OWN FUTURE. Heidi Los has coached numerous Expat Partners, over the past years, with great en...

Healing Mind, Body, And spirit: In today's fast-paced and goal-oriented world, stress is inevitable. This week let's deep dive into exploring the secrets to a healthy and vibrant body by choosing self-care. To know more about improving your spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional health, Our Tea-talk with Karishma & Supriya on Friday, May 14  on http://Radio4brainport.org . Learn about...

Every year, Muslims observe the holy month of Ramadan, a month of fasting, prayer, reflection and giving back to community. Eid al-Fitr, meanwhile, marks the end of Ramadan and it is the most important holiday for the religion. We discussed the meaning of Ramadan and what it means to practice Islam during the Holy Month. Moreover, we also touched upon how Eid is celebrated with friends and familie...

Thought-through and felt-through impressive poems in times that we are flooded by an overload of superficial blurbs on social media?......  Well, we noticed a great interest in Chaitali Sengupta 's writings. A journalist by profession, a financial analyst, a translator, a language teacher, and also a writer, she has many feathers in her cap. Chaitali was on air with Radio 4 Brainport to tell...

Blue is song, Yellow is music, Green is dance, Red is beauty , White is peace and Pink is for joy “. With this colourful quote, your host and dost, Karishma and Limi welcome you all to our Holi special show only on Radio4brainport.org. Holi is a Hindu festival celebrated annually around the month of March and in combination of spring festival. It is celebrated in almost all of India and by all Hin...

Internationals enjoy making music together, already for many years. In COVID times that may not be easy but nonetheless we see an active organisation that brings together internationals: Music with Strangers. With The Sound of Eindhoven, "This is Eindhoven" challenges musicians and producers to create an anthem or soundtrack as an ode to the city. On Radio 4 Brainport, we contacted internationals...

On April 2, we celebrate the World Autism Awareness Day. But there are many spectrums of autism. While Brainport Eindhoven is the smartest city, with the largest number of patents per inhabitant, it is also a city with relatively many people that are "on the spectrum". That seems more that sheer coincidence: There may well be a correlation between prevalence of autism and "systemizers: who have an...

With Thijs van Son, we look forward to the celebration of King's Day 2021. A day full of innovative online events. A highlight will be the automobile parade, ranging from historic DAF cars to the record winning Stella to the innovative solar-powered Lightyear. King Willem Alexander himself will drive a reworked Daffodil designed by Michelotti and with 750 cc air-cooled engine with Variomatic CVT t...

With longer daylight, we look forward to a warmer and beautiful summer when we (hopefully) can once again go on a city trip. Our guest today is Hilbert de Wal, city guide and cultural expert with via-cultura.nl. The common theme today are the historic places that commemorate Carolus Magnus or Charles the Great or Charlemagne, the 'founder' of Europe. The springs and the Dom in Aachen, the unspoilt...

A global shortage of microelectronic ICs, .. what does it mean for you and for the region? Our guest is an expert in making IC: Prof. Peter Baltus . With all these uncertainties, we like to hear how IC's are made, why we need foundries, what can we do here in the Eindhoven region, and what can we not do?  A global shortage of semiconductor chips is raising fear for disruptions to the supply o...

Margot Nijkamp is MD of the Open Innovation Academy and works with the human factor in open innovation. She believes that open innovation is only possible in a culture that has so-called feminine aspects. Margot will be running a workshop at Female Tech Heroes, entitled “Be your own career hero”, during which she will share practical tools for creating successful mindsets. Radio4Brainport visited...

Life in a rapidly growing tech startup is not for the faint-hearted. Especially if your timelines are decades into the future. This is the daily reality for Tessie Hartjes, who is Chief of Sales and Marketing at Lightyear. Tessie will be one of the many inspirational speakers at the launch of Female Tech Heroes, a new networking platform dedicated to women working in technology. Female Tech Heroes...

Female Tech Heroes is a new initiative in the Brainport region, designed to make more women enthusiastic about technology. In the first episode of the podcast series for Female Tech Heroes, Erika van der Merwe of Radio4Brainport.org speaks to Ingelou Stol, Communications Manager at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, about why the High Tech Campus is taking the lead in connecting women in the tec...