Cape Town artist portrays sense of community during Covid pandemic and...
A Covid-19 awareness campaign in Philippi Village, a township in Cape Town, South Africa, brought together local artist Nardstar and the people living there to show a positive side of the pandemic.
View ArticleAmerican French film festival opens as Hollywood counts the cost of Covid
The American French Film Festival opened on Monday in Los Angeles, against a background of industry concerns over the sharp drop in audience figures in France and the United States in the wake of the...
View ArticleAlice Diop triumphs at the Venice Film Festival
This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about Alice Diop. There’s The Sound Kitchen mailbag, the bonus question and the “Listeners Corner” with Michael Fitzpatrick, and...
View ArticleSri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins coveted Booker Prize
Shehan Karunatilaka, who was named as the winner of the Booker prize with his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, is the second Sri Lankan writer to win the prize for novels written in English.
View ArticleGood old stinky French cheese …
This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about “homemade” Roquefort. There’s “On This Day”, the bonus question and the “Listeners Corner” with Michael Fitzpatrick, and...
View ArticleFrench film on 1961 massacre of Algerians in Paris wins student Oscar
A French animation film about the murderous police crackdown on protests by Algerians in 1960s Paris was among the winners of the Student Academy Awards held on Thursday in Los Angeles.
View ArticleBiopic of French politician and Holocaust survivor defies critics
A biopic of the late Simone Veil, one of France's most admired public figures, has received some damning reviews, but its success at the box office shows there's an appetite for tales of strong women...
View ArticleFinalists of France's Goncourt literary prize unveiled from Beirut
The jury of France's most prestigious literary prize announced the names of the four finalists from Beirut on Tuesday. The Académie Goncourt was in the Lebanese capital for the first edition of a...
View ArticleItaly’s far-right triumph
This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about Italy’s recent general elections. There’s some spooky music for Halloween, the bonus question and the “Listeners Corner”...
View ArticleStory of personal tragedy wins France's prestigious Goncourt literature prize
French author Brigitte Giraud has won France’s top literature prize, the Prix Goncourt, for a novel based on events that led to the death of her husband in a motorbike accident in 1999.
View ArticlePolitical activists win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize
This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureates. There’s the bonus question and the “Listeners Corner” with Michael Fitzpatrick,...
View ArticleVenezuelan photographer Fabiola Ferrero wins Carmignac Photojournalism Award
Venezuelan photographer, Fabiola Ferrero, won the 12th Carmignac Photojournalism Award for her series Venezuela, The Wells Run Dry, documenting the disappearance of the Venezuelan middle class...
View ArticleEco-activists underestimate damage protests do to artworks, museums warn
Nearly 100 of the world's most famous museums issued a joint declaration on Thursday saying environmental activists who attack paintings to draw attention to climate change "severely underestimate"...
View ArticleFuel depot blockades
This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the strike by French distribution depot workers at TotalEnergies and Esso-Exxon Mobil. There’s the bonus question and the...
View ArticleEco-activists pour black liquid on Klimt masterpiece in Vienna's Leopold Museum
Climate activists on Tuesday poured a black liquid over Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's masterpiece Death and Life at Vienna's Leopold Museum. This attack is the lastest in a series of attacks in...
View ArticleChagall painting stolen by Nazis but returned to France sold for €7.1 million...
A painting by Marc Chagall entitled The Father, was sold on Tuesday at the Phillips auction house in New York for $7.4 million (7.1 million euros). The piece was among 15 works stolen by Nazis and...
View ArticleFrance's national library celebrates Proust 100 years after his death
France's Marcel Proust, who died 100 years ago this week, is regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. To mark the anniversary, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France is hosting a major...
View ArticleGOAL! French striker Karim Benzema scores again and again
This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the Ballon d’Or. There’s “On This Day”, the bonus question and the “Listeners Corner” with Michael Fitzpatrick, and the new...
View ArticleFrench festival celebrates diversity of vintage Indian cinema
The 44th edition of the Festival des 3 Continents has opened in the western French city of Nantes. This year’s event honours Indian cinema, with an eclectic programme dedicated to the golden years of...
View ArticleMajor Giacometti museum and art school to open in central Paris in 2026
A museum, exhibition space and art school dedicated to artist Alberto Giacometti will open in central Paris in 2026, establishing the world's largest collection of the Swiss sculptor's work.
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