Inside the Akkini studio

Behind every link you hear on Akkini FM there is a room in Zürich's Kreis 5: three doors, a console that never sleeps, and a wall of gear that has been added to one piece at a time since our first broadcast.

The control room is where the day is assembled — playlists, adverts, the drive-time news bed, the dedications that arrive by voice note from Toronto at three in the morning. Next door, the production room doubles as a rehearsal space when a guest artist drops in.

Nothing here is staged. This is the station exactly as our presenters find it when they push the door open at five in the morning.