Zakouska: French quartet spiking sounds of the Mediterranean
Zakouska is a Russian hors d'oeuvre you knock back with a glass of vodka, but the band serve up a meatier dish. Their mastery of the violin, lyra, accordion and guitar, coupled with great complicity...
View ArticleThose hungry little ring-tailed lemurs of Madagascar
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the ring-tailed lemurs of Madagascar. There’s “On This Day”, listener news, music chosen by Amir Manzoor from Khanpur,...
View ArticleEducating Nigerians about dementia
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about Anne-Marie Bissada’s Spotlight on Africa podcast. There’s your letters from The Sound Kitchen Mailbag, music by request...
View ArticleWilderness and the human condition: Australian author enthralls France
For her latest novel, international best-selling author Karen Viggers takes readers to Tasmania, to the old-growth eucalypt forests and vast rugged mountains of the little island off the south coast...
View ArticleNotre-Dame restoration competition raises new controversy
The French government’s announcement of an international architecture competition to rebuild the parts of the Notre-Dame Cathedral destroyed in a fire last week has both inspired contemporary visions...
View ArticleThe Directors’ Fortnight: New Face, Same Vision
24 films this year make up the main list, including enticing titles like Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, Takashi Miike's First Love, art filmmaker, Lav Diaz’...
View ArticleCritics’ Week entries compete for the first-feature Caméra D’Or award
Five out of seven Critics Week entries will compete in the first-feature Camera-d'Or award at Cannes this year.
View ArticleFrench cinema mourns its last 'Grand Duc': Jean-Pierre Marielle
Jean-Pierre Marielle, one of France’s best loved actors, died on Wednesday, aged 87, after a long illness. He starred in more than 100 comedies and dramas, and was the last of the "Grand Ducs" - the...
View ArticleMarcus Gad sings reggae from the soul
After his 2017 debut album Chanting, largely inspired by indigenous kanak culture in his native New Caledonia, Marcus Gad continues to enrich roots reggae on his new EP Enter a Space, with a...
View ArticleThe Maori chant
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the traditional chant of the Maoris of New Zealand. There’s a “This I Believe” essay from Fatematuj Zahra, music by request...
View ArticlePrison drawing by Nelson Mandela to be auctioned in New York
'The Cell Door', drawn by late South African president Nelson Mandela during his 27-year imprisonment, will be auctioned at New York's Bonham's art gallery in May.
View ArticleDirector John Singleton dies aged 51
Film director, screenwriter and producer John Singleton has died, aged 51, in Los Angeles. He was taken to hospital after suffering from a stroke on 17 April. His family said it was ‘an agonising...
View ArticleCannes jury gets youthful boost from US actress Elle Fanning
The jury for the 72nd Cannes Film Festival under this year's president, Mexican film director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, includes four women and four men, nearly all of them wearing more than one...
View ArticleQuentin Tarantino and Abdellatif Kechiche to compete for Golden Palm
The Cannes Film Festival has added a new title to its top prize line-up, the much-awaited Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, directed by Quentin Tarantino. Earlier the Festival had said they thought the...
View ArticleDa Vinci coda: France marks 500th anniversary of artist's death
In an apt memorial to the Italian master, Leonardo da Vinci's death in France on 2 May, 1519, was used to rekindle relations between his homeland and his adopted country France to mark the 500th...
View ArticleTributes pile in for Peter Mayhew, the actor who played Chewbacca
British-born actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca the Wookiee, the loyal, furry companion of space buccaneer Han Solo in five of the ‘Star Wars’ movies, has died at age 74, his family said on...
View ArticleInterview with Police drummer Stewart Copeland
Recently in the city of Lausanne, in Switzerland, radio broadcasters from across Europe came together for the annual 'Radiodays Europe' conference. Now in its 10th year, the conference aims to...
View ArticleIndia’s wins at the Special Olympics
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the medals won by India at the Special Olympics in Abu Dhabi. There’s the Sound Kitchen mailbag, music by request from...
View ArticleFrom Desert to Douala: hot from a pop up studio in N'djamena
Inspired by the huge scope of traditional music in Chad, DJs Nickodemus and Djbuosis began working with musicians in N'djamena in 2018. They talk to RFI about helping them record their first album...
View ArticleThe all-woman spacewalk that almost was
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the women astronauts. There’s listener news, music by request from Samuel Francis, and of course, the new quiz question....
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