The World's most popular alpine radio show! All the secrets, all the backroom gossip! Mike's daily show has been broadcast
for over 22 years..... and it's still going strong (despite me being on it!!)
Will he shave for Spring? Mike refused to shave for the Swiss
Television. The cameras visited him in the studio for
the launch of the new CD "Cupid's arrow" by Ursprung Buam, an Austrian folk music trio from Zillertal, Tyrol. Watch the video evidence here ( you may have to scan down and look for the Mike, maybe click 'video ansehen'
as well to watch the feature) But the hairy man is worth it!
Caption Competition
Here's my effort;-
"There was an man with a beard, Who said, "It is just as I feared!-- Two owls and a hen, Four larks and a wren, Have
all built their nests in my beard."
Or how about
"You people don't understand, a beard keeps you warm in winter, and my beard provides nesting materials for many of Interlaken's
birds!"
It was sad that Rosemarie took her leave of presenting Infortourist from the Autumn, but those snowy
winter mornings coming down from Ringgenberg to do the broadcasts must have been a trial. Here's a recording
of Infotourist from Saturday 6th June when it was announced that she was to leave, which also happened to be Radio
Beo's 22nd birthday. Enjoy the programme again with no music I'm afraid (for copyright reasons).We love you Rosemarie and
thank you for all the times you have personally been responsible for getting us down from the mountains ten minutes before
the big storm! Click the play button to hear 30 mins of the shows links! Any problems please let me know!
.. and another beautiful lady found herself in the BeO studios recently. The lovely Francine Jordi to promote
her new CD. I'm going to buy TEN Francine!(Now why have I arranged it that you can click for an ENORMOUS scan from the
excellent BeO Magazine?!) I've worn those headphones! Ooohhh! Calm down Carl.
Mr P loves a porkie scratching... so do I but they are 300 calories a bag and very high in fat so that can't
be good.... can it?!!!!.. Well yes, and it's all down to Low Carb Dieting - Latest nutritional research is
indicating that we ought to be eating considerably less carbohydrate than we have in the Western world over the past few hundred
years. The scratching amazingly is included in the recommendations of many of the recently developed diet plans
- Atkins, The Zone, Carbohydrate Addicts Diet, etc. Intrigued? Take a look at the Low Carb Resources page or then what about..
The pork scratchings
diet!!
Weight watchers in the US have discovered a novel way to diet - by eating pork scratchings.
The fad has helped make scratchings, or pork rinds as Americans call them, the
country's fastest growing snack with sales up 18 per cent last year. One
weight-loss guru even recommends that the deep-fried pigskin can be dipped in sour cream as part of his controlled diet.The idea behind it is that cutting out carbohydrates lowers
blood sugar levels, thus triggering insulin production which burns fat for fuel.So pasta and bread have been binned in favour of weight-loss diets that include eggs, butter
and bacon.
However fans of the PS be warned! Nutritionists
are warning that an all-fat diet can lead to heart and kidney disease, but that isn't stopping the US sales of pork
scratchings - which topped $420 million (£280 million) in 1999.
It seems incredible but Infotourist, along with Radio BeO, is 21years old
this year, with Mike clocking up in excess of an amazing 6300 editions of the programme without missing a show! (Guinness
Book of Records take note!)
With the numerous deep valleys, and millions of tonnes of mountains between
them, Radio Berner Oberland has quite a task on it's hands to provide excellent signals to all it's audience. Over ten transmitters
and as many cableways are used to achieve this as well as relays in the longer road tunnels.
This amazing FM transmitter mast recently came into service
on top of the Oberland's pyramid mountain Niesen, increasing the coverage of Radio BeO way up into the Capital Bern, even
as far as the Emmental!! It also improves reception in the Kander valley on 88.8 MHz.
Click to read!
The Niesen transmitter is a whopper I'm sure you'll agree, but
it's not quite as big or powerful as the International Deutsche Welle relay that I visited at Cyclops, where you could hear
the programmes in a metal bucket held in the direction of the transmitter. Think what it was doing to my brain cells!
What do you mean 'that explains a lot'?!
Click to read!
On Infotourist you'll hear Mike often refer to Fred. Not a real person,
but the excellent Radio Berner Oberland music computer that chooses records to play during the day, and runs the automated
service for Music Natur and Nacht programmes. Fred has the pick of the astonishing Radio Beo music library, which is
rated as one of the best in Europe. As well as an astounding amount of digital music, the vinyl collection of records
is legendary! Oh and Mike knows the entire collection even better than Fred!!
Saturday 31st October 2009 sadly saw Rosemarie's last programme, and also by the end of the year, Mike
has announced that Infotourist will no longer broadcast on a Saturday morning, becoming a 5 week day evening show only.
I guess it was inevitable, and at least it means we can have a lie in on Saturday mornings from now on! Infotourist was
originally a morning show each day, and this move completes the shows move to the other end of the day!!
Below is a scan from the December BeO Zytig Magazine. CLICK IT to read the article.
When the player loads you can carry on surfing while you listen!
If you can label yourself as ' a lover of the Bernese Oberland' we'd love
to hear from you. Please contact the programme on the email address mike@radiobeo.ch
Ah summer nights in the garden listening to BeO. A little cold without
a cover though. Enjoy the programme and happy listening!!! Don't forget you can keep in touch when you go home...anywhere
in the world via www.radiobeo.ch
Why not send us some photos of you in the Oberland and join the
gang of the 'In'crowd.
Mike at work with a particularly tough interviewee.. Catherine!!
I received an email from a certain lady journalist who described the chap
pictured above as a 'gorgeous hunk'.. no not me.. our dear firend and popular Swiss musician and composer John Hanni.
John lives in Lenk in the Bernese Oberland and is a great supporter of the show. You can visit his website here.
Hannah's first radio appearance at BeO
The village of Wilderswil just outside Interlaken was once a very much noisier place!
Who is the guy in the Trabant?!!
Below Mike is looking.. well 'carnival - like' with his Mardi Gras beads kindly given by Pete Wilson and
his wife from Louisiana on a trip to the Radio BeO studios.
