International Human Rights Day, effigy burning, and your letters
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about Guy Fawkes Day. There’s the listener mailbag, some great music, and of course … the quiz. Just click on the arrow in the photo...
View ArticleAntique Chinese seal fetches 21 million euros at Paris auction
An 18th-century Chinese imperial seal sold for 21 million euros - more than 20 times its estimated price - at auction in Paris on Wednesday.
View ArticleLeyla McCalla pleads for more funding for arts education, less for the war on...
Haitian-American singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla has been touring Europe with her second, acclaimed, album, A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey. RFI caught up with the virtuoso cellist and banjo...
View ArticlePicasso's electrician, wife lose appeal over art stash
An electrician and his wife who had 271 works by Pablo Picasso stashed in their garage for 40 years have been given a two-year suspended prison sentence by an appeal court in Aix-en-Provence.
View ArticlePresidential hopefuls and fire-breathing celebrations
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about France’s centre-right presidential primaries. There’s “On This Day”, listener news, some great music, and of course … the quiz....
View ArticleVan Gogh 'lost' sketches publisher threatens legal action
The French publishers of a book of "lost" Vincent Van Gogh sketches on Monday threatened legal action against a Dutch museum that has questioned the authenticity of the works.
View ArticleEarly 20th century artist Ossip Zadkine's World War One experience
The Zadkine Museum is showing a collection of drawings and etchings taken from his experiences during World war one, as an ambulance driver and stretcher bearer. RFI's Rosslyn Hyams went to visit one...
View ArticleFrench screen legend Michèle Morgan dies, aged 96
French screen legend Michèle Morgan, who starred in some 70 movies and took home the best actress prize at the first-ever Cannes film festival, died on Tuesday, aged 96, her family said.
View ArticleGulalai Ismail wins the 2016 Chirac Prize for the Prevention of Conflict
Every year, the Jacques Chirac Foundation awards a prize to an individual or a group for outstanding work in promoting peace. Called the Prize for the Prevention of Conflict, this year’s award went to...
View ArticleChantilly Grand Stables stages horseback version of Donkey Skin
Shows tailored for children are popular in France in general. At the end of the year, they simply mushroom. Fairy tales where the magical creatures are under and over toadstools, and one where the...
View ArticleMerry Christmas!
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about November’s Supermoon. There’s listener news, some great holiday music, and of course … the quiz. Just click on the arrow in the...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about Les Républicains' primary polls. There’s a special draw for your New Year’s Resolutions, some great holiday music, and of course...
View ArticleLisa Leblanc
Young, Canadian singer-songwriter Lisa Leblanc has performed 400 concerts in the last four years, and recently toured Europe with her new album 'Why you wanna leave, runaway Queen?', packed with...
View ArticleCallas's favourite conductor, Georges Prêtre, dies, aged 92
The French conductor Georges Pretre, the favourite maestro of legendary opera singer Maria Callas and composer Francis Poulenc, has died at the age of 92. He continued to perform into old age,...
View ArticleDigital detox
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about Aswat Nissa in Tunisia. There’s an invitation to "disconnect" from the digital world, some great music, and of course … the...
View ArticleOrient Occident: East meets West through music
Orient Occident, a six-piece ensemble from Turkey, Greece, Morocco, Switzerland and France, releases its eponymous debut album today. Banishing all notions of a 'clash of civilisations' their mutual...
View ArticlePay it forward
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about the presidential polls in The Gambia. There’s an invitation to “pay it forward”, some great music, and of course … the quiz....
View ArticleMy French Film Festival opens online
A programme of 28 films in French, features and short-films are doing the rounds on the internet, in an online-event called My French Film Festival which started on 13 January 2017.
View ArticleRembrandt up close and kind of personal in Paris
Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is the subject of a small but fascinating exhibition at Paris's Jacquemart-André museum called Rembrandt in Confidence or Rembrandt Intime.
View ArticleHow Akalé Wubé re-discovered Ethiopia's jazz great Girma Béyéné
Girma Béyéné is one of the most influential arrangers of the golden age of Ethiopian jazz of the 60s and 70s. After three decades in the musical wilderness, the 70-year old crooner is back on stage...
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