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Making candles with a touch of magic

Once upon a time, a butcher and a TV engineer abandoned their professions and opened a candle making workshop in Fleurier, in Val de Travers, home to the potent alcoholic drink known as absinthe or “the green fairy”. Dorette and Gérald Stoller have named their workshop The Candlemakers in the Land of the Fairies. swissinfo visited them to find out what kind of magic goes into their wax sculptures. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch)

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I have a wealth of experience as a journalist working in Switzerland and enjoy producing videos, articles and podcasts on a range of subjects, recently focused mainly on politics and the environment. Born in the UK, I studied law at Nottingham University, then went on to attend the first-ever post-graduate radio journalism college in London. After working as a radio journalist in the UK and then Switzerland from 1984 to 1995, I returned to the UK to complete a post-graduate diploma in film at Bournemouth Film School. I have been working as a video journalist ever since.

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