East African runners win everything around them!
This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the winners of the Paris Marathon. There’s “On This Day”, listener news, great music, and of course, the new quiz question....
View ArticleSouth Africa's Laurinda Hofmeyr sets francophone African poets to music
After setting the poetry of Afrikaans writers like Breyten Breytenbach to music to great acclaim, South African singer and composer Laurinda Hofmeyr has turned her talents to poets from French-speaking...
View ArticleTop French DJs to rock and rave Élysée Palace
More than 1,500 free tickets were quickly snapped up on a first come, first served basis by signing up on the Elysee website.
View ArticleMozart manuscript expected to sell for €500,000
The first draft of music Mozart wrote for the last act of his opera The Marriage of Figaro is expected to sell for half a million euros when it goes under the hammer in Paris.
View ArticleFrance eases rules on wine stocks to counter weather risks
French vineyards will be allowed under new rules to hold back more of their production each year to protect them in case harvests are damaged by extreme weather including storms and drought.
View ArticleWeird and wonderful turtles
This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the odd green haired turtle. There’s a listener essay, great music, and of course, the new quiz question. Just click on the...
View ArticleSusheela Raman: making Ghost Gamelan 'like sculpting metal'
Susheela Raman releases her seventh album Ghost Gamalan. The songs were written in the UK but a fortuitous meeting with gamalan musicians while on holiday in Indonesia transformed the project. Raman...
View ArticleBanksy paints new mural of woman in mourning on Bataclan hall wall
An image of a woman veiled in mourning appeared next to the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Monday, the latest attributed to the mysterious British street artist Banksy.
View ArticleLav Diaz's dark Season of the Devil, Samuel Collardey's luminous A Polar Year
In this month's Cinefile Rosslyn Hyams meets French director Samuel Pollardey who filmed a year in Greenland for Une Année Polaire (A Polar Year), and Lav Diaz, Filipino director of Season of the...
View ArticleAngelique Kidjo revisits cult Remain in Light album
Our guest on this week's edition of World Music Matters is African superstar Angelique Kidjo from Benin. The triple Grammy award winner talks to RFI about reinterpreting the Talking Heads 1980 classic...
View ArticleOur unique and individual fingerprints
This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about fingerprints. There’s listener news, great music, and of course, the new quiz question. Just click on the arrow in the photo...
View ArticleCape Verdean Carmen Souza and the Creole connection
Singer Carmen Souza was born to Cape Verdean parents in Portugal. Her latest album Creology mixes the Creole language and rhythms she learned at home with the jazz she's learned to love in Europe. She...
View ArticleClaude Lanzmann, director of 'Shoah' documentary, dies at 92
French film-maker and writer Claude Lanzmann, director of the landmark Holocaust documentary Shoah which runs more than nine hours long, died in Paris on Thursday at the age of 92, his publisher said.
View ArticleGardening to build community
This week you’ll hear the answer to the question about the Guediawaye Hip Hop Centre in Senegal. There’s an overflowing Sound Kitchen mailbag filled with your news, great music from Tanzania, and of...
View ArticleTragedy tops Avignon Festival bill ... but where's Shakespeare?
A Latin adaptation of a gory Greek tragedy, translated into French, opens the 72nd international festival of performing arts in the southern French city of Avignon on Friday night, following the usual...
View ArticlePolanski's wife rejects Oscars body invite
The wife of French-Polish film director Roman Polanski, Emmanuelle Seigner, has rejected an invitation to become a member of the body behind that awards Hollywood's Oscars.
View ArticleAvignon Festival: Gentle poetry of China Rose and Invocation of the Muse
The vast performing arts festival in Avignon allocates a special space and time to 30-minute pieces where two artists, not always from the same discipline or the same country, experiment together. The...
View ArticleAfghan child refugee play pricks consciences at Avignon
Au delà du forêt, le Monde (Beyond the Forest, the World) reflects concerns about the treatment of child refugees whose lives are in danger at home and then again on their journey to safety. The play...
View ArticleOlivier Py addresses the challenges of this at this year's Avignon Festival
The Avignon Festival is one of the biggest collective annual theatre events in Europe. The programme will see the whole spectrum of performing arts take place in and around the south-eastern French...
View ArticleAuction of guillotine cuts France down the middle
A 150-year-old guillotine with "a few dents on the blade" will go under the hammer in Paris on Wednesday.
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