RFI EnglishFrance Podcast: Migrants settle into rural life, local French politics on screen and Montgolfière's maiden flightRFI - Sarah Elzas France has welcomed more than 8,000 refugees from Syria and sub-Saharan Africa so far this year. Where have they gone? As immigration is (again) …
RFI EnglishFrance Podcast: France's gig economy, menstruation taboos and 130 years of the Moulin RougeRFI - Sarah Elzas French food culture has been profoundly changed by food delivery apps like Deliveroo and Uber Eats. Take-out is now a thing. It has brought a lot of …
RFI EnglishFrance Podcast: Notre Dame fallout, bears in the Pyrenees, and when France colonised New CaledoniaRFI - Sarah Elzas Seven months after the Notre Dame cathedral went up in flames, the focus has shifted to reconstruction and tackling lead contamination in the area. …
RFI EnglishFrance Podcast: Scorched grapes, paying family caregivers, and France's love affair with McDonald'sRFI - Sarah Elzas The Languedoc Roussillon region produces good quality, reasonably-priced wine, but for how long? In June winegrowers were hard hit when temperatures …
RFI English Podcast: French Communism is not dead, making a baby in Spain, and the dog who discovered LascauxRFI - Sarah Elzas Despite its association with Stalin and gulags, Communism is alive and kicking in France. The youth movement of the French Communist Party has 10,000 …
RFI EnglishFrance Podcast: sheep-shearing, spanking ban and France's obsession with spellingRFI - Sarah Elzas Football gives way to sheep as France hosts the world sheep-shearing championships, a first in mainland Europe. Men and women share with us their …
RFI EnglishFrance Podcast: French football fans turn to women, homeopathy under attack, and radicalisation in the public sectorRFI - Sarah Elzas French football fans are getting hooked on the women's game, as the World Cup draws in new audiences, but the gender pay gap is as wide as ever. …
RFI EnglishFrance Podcast: France's vaccine sceptics, compulsory national service, and Sarkozy to go on trialRFI - Sarah Elzas France is the world's most vaccine-sceptic nation. How did that happen? Also, a pilot of Macron's Universal National Service to replace the military …
RFI English Podcast: banlieue Gay Pride, women's football in France, the greening of MacronismRFI - Sarah Elzas The origins of women's football in France and how the language is trying to keep up with game. Also, the first gay pride march in poorer …
RFI English Podcast: D-Day civilians speak, wolves in the firing line, football feverRFI - Sarah Elzas D-Day commemorations have understandably given pride of place to war veterans, but we hear from civilians in Normandy on the receiving end of the …
RFI English Podcast: Opioid addiction, French youth for climate, press freedom under threatRFI - Sarah Elzas French health officials are concerned about the increase of the use and abuse of opioid painkillers. Unlike in the US, it's not a crisis - yet. Also, …
RFI English Podcast: Right to die, mental fallout at France Telecom, and rejecting your religionRFI - Sarah Elzas A growing number of French Catholics are asking to be de-baptised in the wake of sex abuse scandals in the Church. Also, France is not enthusiastic …
RFI English Podcast: Yellow Vests on the campaign trail, France unprepared for climate change, and CannesRFI - Sarah Elzas This week, the Yellow Vests get political: We meet a DJ running for a seat in the European parliament in next weekend's election. He's enthusiastic, …
RFI English Podcast: France Telecom in court, France's largest Facebook group and what to do with children of jihadis?RFI - Sarah Elzas Executives of France Telecom (now Orange) are in court, accused of driving employees to suicide ten years ago. We talk about the clash of public …
RFI English Podcast: May Day protests, Leonardo da Vinci and French cheese labelling warsRFI - Sarah Elzas Who is attacking whom? May Day protests get complicated. Also, alcohol consumption in France is not going down and doctors blame the wine lobby. And, …
RFI English Podcast: Scrapping France’s elite training school, teaching the Holocaust, and the origins of La MarseillaiseRFI - Sarah Elzas How do you teach about the Holocaust when the survivors are dying? A teacher talks about this tricky period of history. Plus, an interview with …
RFI EnglishFrance Podcast: Rebuilding Notre Dame gets political, French presidential powers, and village politicsRFI - Sarah Elzas This week we look at democracy in France: a conversation about the power of the French presidency and how French people trust their mayors more than …
RFI EnglishFrance Podcast: Women journalists club together, CBD cannabis in France, and a different kind of strikeRFI - Sarah Elzas France wants lower taxes concludes the Prime Minister as the Great national debate, organised in answer to the Yellow vest protests, comes to an end. …
RFI EnglishFrance Podcast: French apples and Brexit, slavery reparations, and is Macron burning out?RFI - Sarah Elzas Each week Sarah Elzas and Alison Hird bring you closer to this country and its people. This week, is president Macron on the brink of burnout? Michael …
RFI EnglishFrance French fishers in port of Boulogne increasingly worried over Brexit no dealRFI - Alison Hird Despite reassurances by French French Minister of Agriculture Didier Guillaume that it was "not possible" for Britain to close its waters to French …
RFI EnglishBordeaux Bordeaux comes to terms with its slavery pastRFI - Christina Okello Raising awareness about the positive contribution of the black community, in a city that was one of France's main slavery ports – that was the …
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RFI EnglishFrance Parisians form informal networks to help unaccompanied minorsRFI - Sarah Elzas Increasing numbers of unaccompanied minors, often teenagers aged 14-17, are arriving in France, and Paris in particular. Despite a European …
RFI EnglishEmmanuel Macron Macron, intelligence and the Yellow Vest protestsRFI - Tony Cross A leading MP from President Emmanuel Macron's party has caused uproar by saying that the government has been "too intelligent". He says he's been …
RFI English Shanty towns, prejudice, spies ... the story of France's Portuguese migrantsRFI - Tony Cross Portuguese migrants to France in the 1960s and 70s had no trouble finding work in the booming economy. But they were forced to live in slums, faced …
RFI English "It's pay, pay, pay ..." Yellow Vests protest in ParisRFI - Tony Cross Teargas was fired and there were clashes with police in Paris on Saturday when over 81,000 Yellow Vest demonstrators defied official orders to stay …
RFI English Are France's prisons turning out terrorists?RFI - Tony Cross Strasbourg gunman Chérif Chekatt had served 27 prison sentences, in France, Germany and Switzerland, and was about to be arrested again. Are France's …
RFI English Visions of Exile Festival in ParisRFI - Sophie Gorman More and more people are finding themselves in situations of exile, far away from their homes, from their lives, from their loved ones. They are …
RFI English Calls for memorial to animals killed in WWIRFI - Sarah Elzas Memorials all over northern France commemorate the nearly 10 million soldiers who lost their lives in the four years of trench warfare of the First …
