Swiss Radio International is to cease all radio broadcasts at the end of
October, and will thereafter concentrate exclusively on its internet
platform, www.swissinfo.org. Starting August 1, a special series of radio
programmes will look back at key events that have shaped SRI and Switzerland
over the past seven decades.

SRI ended its news and current affairs programmes in April, but broadcasts
are continuing on shortwave and satellite until the end of October. During
its last 12 weeks on air, SRI will be broadcasting a special half-hour
programme each week to recall highlights since SRI first hit the airwaves in
1935.

In the week starting August 1, listeners can hear how SRI evolved from the
Swiss Shortwave Service - which went on air for the first time on August 1,
1935 - into swissinfo, which went online in 1999. Other programmes in the
"Assignment Switzerland" series will profile personalities who shaped the
country, the four Swiss cultures and the Swiss living abroad. SRI will also
be looking back at key events in politics, science and technology, and the
arts, and finding out what outsiders think of Switzerland. The final
programme in the series will look at how Swiss views of their own country
have changed over the past half-century.

Programmes will be available on shortwave and on demand via the Website. The
first programme is already online as a "sneak preview".

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