From James Bond to Marie Antoinette - films shot at the Vaux Le Vicomte palace
In this week's Culture in France, RFI's Rosslyn Hyams visits the Vaux le Vicomte Fait son Cinéma exhibition in the 17th Century palace and gardens near Paris. The grounds and rooms have featured in...
View ArticleSalif Keita: 'Golden voice of Africa' prepares release of final album
This week's edition of World Music Matters features Malian singer-songwriter Salif Keita. Known as the "golden voice of Africa" he's also devoted much of his life to helping people who, like him, have...
View ArticleLet’s go to Madagascar!
This week you’ll hear the answer to the question about the oldest human skeleton found in the Americas. There’s a trip to the Madagascar exhibit at the Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac museum, great music,...
View ArticleFrench chef Lucas Felzine chases umami across continents
Chef Lucas Felzine has twinkling eyes and a kind smile. He's a chef that uses words like soul, emotions and feelings when talking about how he cooks, a cook who is constantly after the elusive umami...
View ArticleFreedoms,civilian targets and risk are focus at Bayeux awards for war reporting
The winners of the Bayeux War Correspondents 25th awards send a clear message through their work, that civilians cannot be described as collateral damage in conflicts and freedom of expression is a...
View ArticleJewellery belonging France’s last queen, Marie Antoinette, to be auctioned
Jewellery belonging to France’s last queen, Marie Antoinette, who was beheaded in Paris during the French revolution, is among a number of pieces to be auctioned by Sotheby’s in Geneva next month.
View ArticleFrance's Johnny Hallyday rockin' from the grave
Fans rushed to stores on Friday to buy a posthumous album by France's legendary rock star Johnny Hallyday. The singer, who died of lung cancer in December last year, is often called France's Elvis...
View ArticleJane Fonda calls her Lumière Award a gift of love and light
Graciously accepting the 10th Lumière Lifetime Acheivement Award, 81 year-old Jane Fonda beamed vitality at the hall at the Lyons Convention Centre on Friday evening. Her career in film, her espousal...
View ArticleSweden’s parliamentary elections
This week you’ll hear the answer to the question about Sweden’s parliamentary elections. There’s listener news and music by request – and even a a trip to the little-known pyramids in Sudan. All that,...
View ArticleParis auction house braces for Banksy sale after shredding
Paris auction house Artcurial held its breath Wednesday ahead of the sale of four works by Banksy, unsure what to expect following the enigmatic artist's shredding of a painting just moments after it...
View ArticleFilms ‘Shock Corridor’ and ‘Day of the Outlaw’ adapted on stage
At the National Drama Centre in Montreuil, a suburb east of Paris, director Mathieu Bauer's double-bill Nuit Américaine adapts two US movies for the stage. Bauer says it's like "diving into the history...
View ArticleCentral and east Africa and other hotspots in photos in Bayeux
Rosslyn Hyams visits powerful exhibitions of photos taken in central and east Africa, mainly of refugees and internally displaced people near and on the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo,...
View ArticleBongeziwe Mabandla: a modern 'miracle' from South Africa
Bongeziwe Mabandla sings a distinctive Afro-folk in his native Xhosa language. Just 30, he's fast becoming one of the strong voices shaping the South African scene. A finalist in RFI's Discoveries...
View ArticleRed lizard soup
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear a Sound Kitchen flashback – a conversation with listener John Bassey from Nigeria about the benefits of Red lizard soup(!). That’s something you definitely...
View ArticleRecord entries for kids' film festival in Paris
Family films for spectators aged from 2 to 102 is a slogan that works for Mon Premier Festival, My First Film Festival in Paris, in its 14th year. The City Hall's specially compiled programme for young...
View ArticleA passionate collector of 'ordinary Chinese objects'
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear a Sound Kitchen Flashback about a passionate collector of “ordinary” Chinese objects". It’s really very interesting, so click on that little “Listen” arrow...
View ArticleBaudelaire's suicide letter sells for record auction price
A suicide letter written by 19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire sold at auction yesterday for 234,000 euros, three times the expected price.
View ArticleParis exhibition maps out post-WWI turmoil in the east
An exhibition that is part of the French centenary commemorations for the end of World War I provides a fascinating historical and geographical eye-opener, centred on the peace treaties signed after...
View ArticleNovel of youth and disillusion wins France's Goncourt prize
A book described by its author as an “educational novel about disillusionment” set in a drab industrial town has won France’s prestigious Goncourt book prize this year.
View ArticleFrench court finds US artist Jeff Koons guilty of plagiarism
A French court on Thursday ruled that celebrity US artist Jeff Koons copied an idea from an advertisement used by a French clothing chain, fining him along with the museum which exhibited the contested...
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