Gérard Depardieu denies rape accusations
French actor Gerard Depardieu has been accused of rape and sexual assault. Depardieu's lawyer, Hervé Temime said his client, probably France's best-known film star abroad, denies the allegations.
View ArticleMexico’s election results
This week you’ll hear the answer to the question about Mexico’s presidential election. There’s “On This Day”, Amazon warriors, listener news, great music, and of course, the new quiz question. Just...
View ArticleAl Pacino to take one-man show to Paris
Al Pacino is to realise a long-held ambition to play in a Paris theatre in October. The American star will peform his one-man show at the Théâtre de Paris on 22 and 23 October.
View ArticleFrance offers to help restore Rio's Brazil National Museum
France is ready to help restore the historic Brazil National Museum in Rio de Janeiro after it was ravaged by fire on Sunday. Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves le Drian described the 200-year-old...
View ArticleYoung men make tough, clear choices in 'Shéhérazade' and 'Sauvage'
In this month's Cinefile, RFI's Rosslyn Hyams meets artists from two French feature films. Both stories about the rougher or tougher side of life: Shéhérazade and Sauvage.
View ArticleSoweto's BCUC: psychosomatic flows grow on you
BCUC aka Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness from Soweto in South Africa have an explosive live sound they've called Africa Ngungungu. They initially struggled to find a public for their 20 minute long...
View ArticleLooking back at World Cup 2018
This week you’ll hear the answer to the question about the 2018 World Cup Winner. There’s an essay on the theme “This I Believe” by Mohammed Ibrahim from Cape Coast, Ghana, great music, and of course,...
View ArticleBelgium journalists win Visa d'Or for web doc on Burkina Faso militias
The Visa d’Or for digital news was awarded on Thursday evening in the southern town of Perpignan to the Belgian journalist Valentine Van Vyve and photographer Olivier Papegnies for their in-depth web...
View ArticleThe funny yet serious world of black comedian Daliso Chaponda
Malawian comic Daliso Chaponda says his way of coping with the world is through humour. He does so with much irreverence while getting laughs out of sensitive and complex issues. Chaponda is convinced...
View ArticleFrance backs European copyright change against web giants' lobby
French Culture Minister Françoise Nyssen has joined 205 celebrities in an appeal to the European parliament to agree to tighten up internet copyright laws against intensive lobbying by web giants like...
View Article'Thunder road' wins Deauville film festival
First-time director Jim Cummings on Saturday scooped the Grand Prize at France's Deauville American Film Festival for Thunder Road, a tragicomedy about a Texas single father.
View ArticleLes Rencontres Arles - America Great Again
America Great Again was a major section of one of the biggest photography conventions in the world, held in the picturesque southern French town of Arles. Rosslyn Hyams reports on the higlights of Les...
View ArticleSudan's forgotten musical heritage revived with violins and synths
Hugely popular across the African continent in the 70s and 80s, the music of Khartoum was almost extinguished in 1989 when the hard-line religious government took over. Now that rich musical heritage...
View ArticleFrench raï, rock star Rachid Taha dies, aged 59
France-based Algerian singer Rachid Taha has died at the age of 59. His career combined music with anti-racist activism.
View ArticlePalestinian musicians play from new Jerusalem pit
East Jerusalem has its first orchestra pit. Twenty five Palestinian classical musicians serenaded an audience from the new pit inside the Yabous Cultural Centre at a recent concert. Correspondent...
View ArticleThe World Cup Trio Club
This week you’ll hear the answer to the question about the trio of men who have won the World Cup as both players and coaches. There’s a quick trip to a Street Food Fair in Paris, listener news, great...
View ArticlePublic gets peek into French president's official Élysée Palace residence
The French presidential wine collection holds 14,000 bottles deemed so precious, few people are allowed to enter the cellar where they are stored. The president’s chefs use 150-year-old copper pans.
View ArticleParis museum's fresh look at the legacy of performer-rights campaigner Paul...
Culture in France this week climbs to a niche in the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac museum in Paris, for a small but powerful exhibition about the life and times of Afro-American international actor,...
View ArticleFilmmaker Loridan-Ivens, Auschwitz companion of Simone Veil, dies aged 90
French writer and filmmaker Marceline Loridan-Ivens, a lifelong friend of Simone Veil after the pair met in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp, died Tuesday aged 90.
View ArticleMadagascar's Kristel takes Europe by storm
Hurricaine Kristel swept into Paris this week. RFI met the explosive singer and bass player from Madagascar in concert at La Bellevilleoise in the capital to talk about rock music and her band's debut...
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