History and society Archives
Le miracle suisse
2023
The programme that (finally) explains the ins and outs of Swiss well-being, and offers the keys to understanding that renowned "Swiss attitude. A fun guide to Homo Helveticus, using archive footage from years past and recent times, all in a light-hearted, sunny mood with plenty of laughter thrown in.
History and society | Archives
Episode 12
26 min
Languages
In Switzerland there are four official languages. And to those we can also add the Alemannic dialects of German-speaking Switzerland. It might seem more than a little complicated but, with a bit of common sense, it does work...
Episode 11
26 min
Work
What is the relationship between the Swiss and work? How has this relationship evolved over recent decades?
Episode 10
26 min
Weather
The weather, a vast subject. How has our interest in weather forecasts developed down the years?
Episode 9
26 min
Animals
Cats, dogs, chickens, horses, hamsters... How has our relationship with animals changed down the years?
Episode 8
26 min
Health
Today's programme takes a look at health. How has our relationship with medicine changed? And what about patient care and treatment over the last few decades? How have medical knowledge and techniques advanced?
Episode 12
26 min
Swiss madness
The Swiss are wise and reasonable. But, they sometimes have a crazy side. They speak four languages, vote all the time, love trains, cows, military paraphernalia, garden gnomes, cleanliness, play music to their cheeses and do unlikely sports...
Episode 11
26 min
Words of love
The Swiss talk about love. But in their way. We listen to children, teenagers and adults express their feelings, elderly persons talk about love with great humour. We find a woman who published a marriage advertisement in the 1980s and discover mythical dedications for Saint Valentine's Day.
Episode 10
26 min
The body
A healthy mind in a healthy body, a slogan that applies to the Swiss. They exercise, get tattoos, try to lose weight... We look what a bodybuilding legend from 1980 to 1990 looks like today and we explore the relationship with nudity in the 1970s...
Episode 9
26 min
TV
2024 marks Télévision Suisse Romande's 70th birthday. The first broadcast images date back to 1954 and we plunge into this artisanal beginning with the first continuity announcements, the first theatre plays filmed for TV, the first reports and the arrival of colour.
Episode 8
26 min
Foreigners
The relationship between the Swiss and foreigners with reports dedicated to this theme: the arrival of Italian and Spanish seasonal workers in the 1960s, the arrival of people from Africa or America, the first mixed couples, the love-hate relationship with the French, racism, naturalisation tests...
Episode 8
26 min
Money
We go from the banking secrecy to salary secrecy, from piggy banks to the release of new banknotes. We discover the poverty of Switzerland in the sixties and that of the Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich, we smile with a parodic song about banks, we find a former hippie forty years later.
Episode 7
26 min
Love
We go from sex education lessons to wedding preparations, from the housewife of the sixties to matrimonial agencies, we observe how the Swiss flirt and love, we watch with emotion the first testimonials by homosexual couples and a couple in a retirement home, still deeply in love.
Episode 6
26 min
Humour
We question whether there is a typically Swiss humour, we enjoy seeing politicians crying with laughter, and sketches by François Silvant, Marie-Thérèse Porchet, Zouc, Emil, etc. We meet two presenters of a cult TV programme and we discover that Coluche started out on Swiss television.
Episode 5
26 min
Tranquillity
We go from noise problems to neighbour problems, from the tranquillity of stars to the normality of Swiss politicians. We discover the legendary (and very severe) rules of the Penthalaz campsite and we meet two francophone Swiss who, as children, went to a village without television.
Episode 4
26 min
Nature
We go from mountains to picnics, camping to hiking, from protecting the environment to the ban on picking flowers, plus a who's-who of Swiss ecologists. We also watch the militant activist Franz Weber being arrested and have fun with what was being said about the climate sixty years ago.
The programme that (finally) explains the ins and outs of Swiss well-being, and offers the keys to understanding that renowned "Swiss attitude. A fun guide to Homo Helveticus, using archive footage from years past and recent times, all in a light-hearted, sunny mood with plenty of laughter thrown in.
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La Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) est une entreprise audiovisuelle de service public, appartenant au groupe média SSR (Société Suisse de radiodiffusion et télévision), qui propose des programmes sur quatre chaînes radio, deux chaînes tv et de nombreuses plateformes digitales.
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What shaped Swiss thought? By analysing the history of the country, Tristan Miquel and Julien Girardin question the ethical and philosophical challenges facing their society and draw up parallels between the past and the present to stimulate reflection on different schools of thought.
Wendy Pillonel's docu-drama follows the fate of the Brefin family. Two members of the family are searching for Mireille and Rosette, who disappeared in the 2004 tsunami. An opportunity to look back at their moments of hope and despair, the difficulty of grieving to continue to live. Firsthand experiences.
December 1944. They thought that the war was over because Belgium had been freed three months earlier. But the families in Ardennes saw the Germans return by surprise. We look back at a terrible battle, through accounts, sequences from the archives and interviews with historians.
Jonas Schneiter is celebrating the 70th anniversary of Télévision suisse romande. This is the opportunity to watch outstanding images and personalities again from French-speaking Swiss television from yesterday and today. On the programme: emblematic sequences, memories, laughter and emotion, under the eye of a new generation of viewers.
June 1955. One year after the battle of Dien Bien Phu, French captain Paul Belmont is sent back there to find the remains of dead soldiers. He identifies eight among thousands. A look back at his journey and a tribute to the fallen soldiers of the Indochina war.
