Last June, Mona Vetsch said goodbye to the morning show on Radio SRF 3 after 17 years. Now she's back and will accompany listeners through (Monday) noon instead of the morning. Sidekick of the three-hour show will be SRF 3 producer Rika Brune, who has already been heard with Mona Vetsch on SRF 3 Morgen.
"At MonAMontag, a lot of things emerge from the moment, live and direct. That's what makes radio unique." In addition, Mona Vetsch brings unique stories and anecdotes from the lives of Radio SRF 3 listeners to the station in every show under the title "One like no other!
Mona Vetsch and Rika Brune will be heard on Radio SRF 3 every Monday from 12:00 to 15:00 starting March 5, 2018. Mona Vetsch thus complements Stefan Büsser in the SRF 3 lunchtime slot and will also be heard at irregular intervals on other weekdays as "Mona am Mittag".
This was announced by SRF on Wednesday. Karin Frei, born in 1969, has worked for Swiss Radio DRS since 1992. She worked as an editor and presenter at DRS 3 until 1994. From 1996, the Lucerne native hosted the evening and night program on DRS 1, before moving to the background program "Doppelpunkt" as a presenter and editor in 2004. Since 2009, she has also hosted the talk show "Persönlich". Frei is a book author and holds a degree in European ethnology, social and economic history, and international law.
36-year-old Mona Vetsch has been with Swiss radio and television since 1997. She has worked as a presenter and editor for various formats, including "Oops!", "Weekend Music" and "Pisa - Kampf der Kantone". For the program "Quer", Vetsch was an outside presenter and deputy for Patrick Rohr. Since 2004 she has worked for the SF reportage series "Fernweh" and presented various long-term reports for "SF Spezial". Mona Vetsch is the presenter of the morning show on DRS 3 and was the host of the DRS 3 talk show "Focus" from 2003 to early 2010, of which she was the editor for three years. As a freelance writer, she has worked for various print media. The native of eastern Switzerland graduated with a business degree and studied political science, sociology and European popular literature at the University of Zurich for four years.