🐢 #WorldTurtleDay reminder: over 250,000 sea turtles die in fishing nets every single year. I filmed this in #Cyprus — where turtles and fishing nets share the same waters. The bycatch crisis is real & it's happening now. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUR3... #SeaTurtles #Bycatch #OceanConservation

🐢 Happy #WorldTurtleDay! Today we celebrate these ancient mariners — and recommit to protecting them. In #Cyprus, I witnessed firsthand how bycatch threatens sea turtles. It's a quiet crisis that needs loud voices. Watch & share 👇 christiancummins1.substack.com/p/trust-and-...

Trying to save #turtles in #cyprus fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3060...

"#Vienna is the capital of espionage,“ Dietmar Pichler told me. „#Austria has always been friendly towards Moscow — and that has created a kind of gateway for Russian propaganda and Russian influence, not only in the espionage sector but in the information sector too.“ fm4.orf.at/story/misinf...

"Soul music was born out of Black experience, Black pain, Black joy, Black resistance. But it also became, over decades, something that transcended the boundaries of the people who created it. It was something that spoke to anyone who encountered it with an open heart." fm4.orf.at/story/a-litt...

Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.

☀️ Sunny Side Up on @fm4.orf.at from 10am! Vietnamese soul rescued from a 1960s tape vault, Motown too bold for radio, Argentine indigenous folk gone electronic — plus Aze, Kruder & Dorfmeister, James Hersey and a show full of Austrian music. 12 points all round basically: fm4.orf.at

"It is ludicrously picturesque – some neighbourhoods feel like a miniature version of Prague, others like the backdrop to a German fairy-tale. But I’d spent most of the time confused, love-sick and slightly hung-over." christiancummins1.substack.com/p/lost-in-st...

Doesn’t look good for the (extended) weekend 🌧️ but luckily there’s @fm4.orf.at Sunny Side Up with @christianccummins.bsky.social ☀️

☀️ Sunny Side Up on @fm4.orf.at today 10am-1pm! A Seattle couple who accidentally became a Chinese pop sensation, France Gall winning Eurovision with a song from Serge Gainsbourg, and a lost Detroit funk track from a tape vault. Plus, Vienna's Ross Van Boss debuts brand new Italian music 🎶 fm4.orf.at

Honestly i really enjoyed this encounter! fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3049...

“I am European. I’ve got much more in common with Europe than America. We’re British and I just love being in #Europe, I love doing things in Europe.” As a statement of soft-power warmth, it lands with quiet force. #Eurovision #LookMumNoComputer christiancummins1.substack.com/p/eins-zwei-...

Sort of a mixture between Dr. Emmett Brown from Back to the Future and Falco: Mad inventor and now #Eurovision contestant Sam Battle (Look Mum, No Computer) will be on @fm4.orf.at tomorrow.

It's #Eurovision week in #Vienna, and I went to the British embassy to meet the left-field UK entry; Sam Battle, who creates wild musical instruments from electro-junk and has build his own eurovision set. Fasten your seat-belts! christiancummins1.substack.com/p/the-mad-sc...

And here is an interview with the director of #Palestine36, Annemarie Jacir - "Everybody talks about 1948 and everything after, but the roots of all this begin so much earlier.“ For those of us conditioned by decades of news cycles, this film offers context: @fm4.orf.at fm4.orf.at/podcast/fm4-...

This film about what we Brits did in Palestine in 1936-9 was rather uncomfortable viewing for me. I did a lot of fact-checking and cross-referencing, hoping we'd behaved better in reality. We hadn't. An under-told chapter in the story of how we got to where we are fm4.orf.at/story/palest...

You can try and forget #climatechange, dear #USA, but I'm afraid it won't forget you. #science doesn't care about your culture wars.

Why should only 10-1pm on Sunday feel sunny and carefeee when you can get the feeling of globally-minded multi-lingual joyfulness at the click of a button? @fm4.orf.at #sunnysideup fm4.orf.at/sendung/1003...

6,100 reasons to be hopeful about Vienna. 🚲✨ This weekends's #KidicalMass in #Vienna showed what demanding #cycling infrastructure is really about — not just bikes, but children being free to ride safely through their own city. Better for health, fun and the planet! #Wien #Fahrrad

"…'Sieg Heil' chants on the train, racism in the toilet and swastikas in the hotel bar. Disturbed guests report to Der Standard about scenes surrounding the popular Gauder Fest in the Tyrolean Zillertal at the beginning of May…" 👎

Happy #Muttertag. On @fm4.orf.at's #sunnysideup on we've got Brazil's Rita Lee and the song that smuggled anti-colonialism into a beach party, then we head to Peru, Egypt, Bali and back to Vienna — where Takeshi’s Cashew have made something mind-expanding but fun. 10am here fm4.orf.at 🌞

What do the council election in the #UK mean for the future of #KeirStarmer? Why have voters, who opinion polls say are disappointed with #Brexit, rewarding Brexit's architect #NigelFarage? And what is going on with #ZackPolanski and his CV? Lot of questions! @fm4.orf.at fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3043...

I'm not going to mention names - but who hasn't been annoyed by shouty people popping up online and telling us we areall mugs for not being millionaires? These are #finfluencers The EU wants to help us avoid getting scammed by financial charlatans fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3040...

"One expects political leaders to act in the interests of those who elected them, not in the interests of corporations who may hold a particular administration hostage." #AI fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3038... @fm4.orf.at

"The song is not loud. It does not rage. It mourns, which is somehow worse. Over a gentle, insistent groove, Scott-Heron lays out the facts of Tyler’s case with the precision of a journalist and the ache of a poet.He refuses to let the world look away" christiancummins1.substack.com/p/the-blueso...

Immer wieder traumhaft, am Sonntagvormittag über @christianccummins.bsky.social auf „Sunny Side Up“ @fm4.orf.at musikalische (Soul-)Schätze aus diversen Jahrzehnten zu entdecken. Hoffe, diese Sendung wird es noch sehr lange geben!

☀️ @fm4.orf.at's #sunnysideup opens today with Billie Holiday on the sunny side of the street in 1944. We have Gil Scott-Heron singing about a sixteen-year-old on death row and new music from Honey Dijon, Angélique Kidjo with Nile Rodgers & Thee Sacred Souls 📻 Streaming worldwide at fm4.orf.at

"The current crisis – the biggest oil shock in decades – has shown that fossil fuels are neither economically nor environmentally sustainable. The subsidies should therefore go towards extending renewable energy. But the CDU-led government is doing the opposite." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Come on #Lego, it's time to lift the heinous discrimination 😉 and, as a gesture of contrition, send Sir David a lego penguin for his big day.

☀️ #SunnySideUp on @fm4.orf.at , this #MayDay morning from 10am. Nina Simone on chain gangs. Teddy Pendergrass demanding freedom. Linda Tillery singing about what it means to be Black, female and gay in 1977. The Average White Band live at Montreux. And Mina — . 📻 Streaming worldwide at fm4.orf.at

Why Europe needs a strong #AILaw Washington wants Europe to back off. Big Tech wants the rules watered down. Brando Benifei, the Italian MEP who wrote the world's first AI law isn't having it.

The pings and alerts that govern young people’s lives — “can create a lot of damage in society, particularly among younger people, where they are used to blackmail them, to threaten them, to humiliate them.” Why #Europe needs a strong #AI law: christiancummins1.substack.com/p/the-sharks...

What can the #EU do to protect children from cyberbullying? fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3033...

Why Europe needs a strong AI Law open.substack.com/pub/christia...

We have a tool box to defend #Europe against the tech bros, says MEP Alexandra Geese, for the sake of our democracy and genuine free speech, European leaders need to find the ciurage to use it… fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3031...

This is when Paddington Bear's hard stare would be needed

#Albania: We fully support Sami Curri, the journalist and owner of the investigative media outlet Bulqizaime.al, whose car was set on fire. While the investigation is ongoing, Sami Curri has strong reasons to believe that the attack was connected to his current investigation.

Evin Incir is a Swedish MEP who's spent 7 years fighting for a single legal principle: that sex without consent is #rape. Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus is a Polish MEP, says rape is often not perpetrated in a dark alley but a stranger, but at home by someone who had trusted: fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3030...

Only Yes Means Yes — But Does Europe Have the Power to Say So? #EU #GenderViolence open.substack.com/pub/christia...

"Iran is humiliating USA", says German Chancellor to schoolkids. But isn't this the same German Chancellor who sat quietly next to Trump as the US President launched his war and insulted Germany's EU partners for not being happy enough about his strikes. Help me with my memory...

“What we need is every brain possible to try and make the world a better place,” I met the Danish-British broadcaster, comedian and activist Sandi Toksvig for @fm4.orf.at and she made me think, laugh and generally feel good about nerdiness! sound.orf.at/.../fm4-inte...

I have to say it took a while to get here from Vienna, but it seems there is a lot to talk about in #Strasbourg this week!

Why humanity is shooting itself in the foot by blocking women from successful careers in #science: Sandi Toksvig in interview with @radiofm4 sound.orf.at/podcast/fm4/...

Have you noticed that since the #energy crisis began, it has been incredibly windy in #Austria? It is as if Mother Nature, coughing from all the #fossilfuel pollution, wants to send a message... #wind www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq3O...

This week I highlighted our A Little Souls song of the week on #substack - Mama Africa! This is a reminder of why #MiriamMakeba is so important substack.com/home/post/p-... #Africa #soul #SunnySideUp

I couldn't wait until 10am to honour #MamaAfrica - anti-Apartheid activist and stirring singer #MiriamMakeba so i barged into Dave Dempsey's @fm4.orf.at #MorningShow fm4.orf.at/player/20260...

Today's @fm4.orf.at #sunnysideup features Miriam Makeba singing about freedom from thirty years of exile, and we're marking ten years since the world lost Prince, a Vodún mystic from 🇧🇯 #Benin unearthed after decades by Frankfurt label ANALOG AFRICA. . 📻 Streaming worldwide at fm4.orf.at/player/live

OK, this paragraph got my head spinning. "(In 1914) the average Frenchman consumed 162 litres of #wine every year. some miners assuaged he harshness of their labours by drinking up 6 litres a day. The country had half a million bars, one for every 82 people." #history 🍷🍇😱

In #Vienna @fridaysforfuture.at has returned to the streets with renewed energy, demanding #Austria's new budget prioritise #climate over #fossilfuels. The NGOs @greenpeace.at & @global2000.bsky.social turned up in solidarity fm4.orf.at/player/20260...

A powerful, heart-wrenching but motivating Austrian documentary i was 6 years in the making: Here, Richard Ladkani discusses #Yanuni: what we should know about #gold, why indigenous voices must be amplified and the links between Juma Xipaia & #JaneGoodall fm4.orf.at/player/20260... @fm4.orf.at