RFI EnglishGay Pride 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 EnglishFrance 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 EnglishFreedom of the Press 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 EnglishRight To Die 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 English 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 English 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 English Podcast: French apples and Brexit, slavery reparations, and is Macron burning out?RFI - Sarah Elzas Our first episode of a revamped Spotlight on France! Each week Sarah Elzas and Alison Hird bring you a bit closer to this country and its people. This …
RFI English 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 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 EnglishShanty Towns 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 EnglishParis "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 EnglishFrance 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 …
RFI English Rise in LGBT violence, procreation assistance debate continuesRFI - Sarah Elzas French LGBT rights groups have reported a rise in homophobic violence over the last few weeks, with several aggressive attacks documented on social …
RFI English France's post-Brexit business strategy includes new English-language disputes courtRFI - Alison Hird France has begun hearing litigation cases in an English-speaking International Chamber at the Paris Court of Appeal. With growing uncertainty over …
RFI English Paris Motor Show looks to our future on four-wheelsRFI - Dhananjay Khadilkar The Paris Motor Show is one of the world’s biggest automobile exhibitions, attracting around a million visitors. Started in 1910, the biennial event …
RFI English Dreaded school test shows love of French language alive and well in poorer communitiesRFI - Alison Hird In March this year La Dictée Geante (giant dictation) broke the world record when more than 1,400 people took part in the largest ever group …
RFI English French restaurant and hotel sector turns to asylum seekers to fill job vacanciesRFI - Alison Hird French President Emmanuel Macron created a stir last week when he was filmed telling an unemployed gardener he could easily find a job by crossing …
RFI EnglishFrance French wineries have trouble finding grape harvestersRFI - Sarah Elzas It’s grape harvest season across France, but winemakers have been struggling to find enough people to do the work. Gone are the days of harvest …
