Presenter, Journalist, nature lover, music fan. dad.https://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mlzny6gr5k2f☀️ 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.at17 May 2026 05:47 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlzny6gr5k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mlxk63mrp22x"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." https://christiancummins1.substack.com/p/lost-in-steyr16 May 2026 09:34 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlxk63mrp22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mls2whodas2x☀️ 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.at14 May 2026 05:18 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mls2whodas2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mlr4tnobts24Honestly i really enjoyed this encounter! https://fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3049651913 May 2026 20:19 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlr4tnobts24https://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mlqcfhmi5s2q“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 https://christiancummins1.substack.com/p/eins-zwei-drei-hes-coming-for-you13 May 2026 12:26 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqcfhmi5s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mlo3ju34rk2wSort 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.12 May 2026 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlo3ju34rk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mlnbl333r22sIt'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! https://christiancummins1.substack.com/p/the-mad-scientist-at-eurovision-202612 May 2026 07:33 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnbl333r22shttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mllfvxkyk22xAnd 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 https://fm4.orf.at/podcast/fm4-interview-podcast/fm4-interview-with-director-of-palestine-36-annemarie-jacir11 May 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllfvxkyk22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mllfmqaemk2aThis 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 https://fm4.orf.at/story/palestine-36-10011 May 2026 13:40 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllfmqaemk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mljd3jst7c2bYou can try and forget #climatechange, dear #USA, but I'm afraid it won't forget you. #science doesn't care about your culture wars.10 May 2026 17:50 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mljd3jst7c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mlizytrn322hWhy 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 https://fm4.orf.at/sendung/1003675/sunny-side-up10 May 2026 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlizytrn322hhttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mliycqdtps246,100 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 #Fahrrad10 May 2026 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mliycqdtps24https://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mlil76n5ws2n"…'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…" 👎 [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 May 2026 10:42 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlil76n5ws2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mli4pwh75c2uHappy #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 🌞10 May 2026 06:23 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mli4pwh75c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mlejig6it22hWhat 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 https://fm4.orf.at/beitrag/30433499/what-the-uk-council-elections-mean-for-the-future-of-the-country08 May 2026 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlejig6it22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mlbguhixm22vI'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 https://fm4.orf.at/beitrag/30407086/how-the-eu-aims-to-control-the-finfluencers07 May 2026 14:36 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbguhixm22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3ml2bqm24kc2b"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 https://fm4.orf.at/beitrag/30381500/why-the-eu-ai-law-needs-defending @fm4.orf.at04 May 2026 18:16 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2bqm24kc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mkxf3femfk2t"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" https://christiancummins1.substack.com/p/the-bluesologists-cry03 May 2026 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxf3femfk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mkwfoy6jcc22☀️ @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.at03 May 2026 05:16 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwfoy6jcc22https://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mkveuccsbs2d"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." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/01/germanys-climate-u-turn-is-the-worst-possible-response-to-the-oil-shock02 May 2026 19:28 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkveuccsbs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mksal6kixc2gCome 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.01 May 2026 13:34 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksal6kixc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mkrliqfss22e☀️ #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.at01 May 2026 07:16 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrliqfss22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mkrgnm756k2kWhy 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.01 May 2026 05:50 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrgnm756k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mkrfhceyu22rThe 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: https://christiancummins1.substack.com/p/the-sharks-are-circling-on-europes01 May 2026 05:28 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrfhceyu22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mkqi37lhp22aWhat can the #EU do to protect children from cyberbullying? https://fm4.orf.at/beitrag/3033733730 Apr 2026 20:42 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqi37lhp22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mkqgroomrk2aWhy Europe needs a strong AI Law https://open.substack.com/pub/christiancummins1/p/why-europe-needs-a-strong-ai-law?r=2gezui&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web30 Apr 2026 20:19 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqgroomrk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/christianccummins.bsky.social/post/3mkpagayegc24We 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… https://fm4.orf.at/beitrag/30316176/abgeordnete-alexandra-geese-on-the-danger-of-us-tech-on-eu-democracy30 Apr 2026 08:53 +0000at://did:plc:d2eepl76zbfnvwc5fodstbm7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpagayegc24