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British William Tell actor Conrad Phillips makes first visit to Switzerland

Countless actors – professional and amateur – have played William Tell over the past 200 years. Yet the man millions of people around the world knew as the Swiss hero was actually British. At the invitation of swissinfo.ch, in 2004 Conrad Phillips paid his first visit to Switzerland. (Michele Andina, swissinfo.ch)

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A documentary and animation filmmaker from Bern, Michele studied film at Zurich University of the Arts. He's been a swissinfo.ch video journalist since 2004 and has a special interest in developing new video formats for mobile viewing, mixing animation and documentary styles.

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