RFI EnglishFrance Spotlight on France - Podcast: France's alcohol dilemma, gender-neutral toys and the day secularism became law RFI - Sarah ElzasAlcohol consumption is a problem in France, but the wine industry doesn't want people to know. We look at the paradox of having to address alcoholism in a country whose second biggest industry is wine...
RFI EnglishFrance Spotlight on France - Podcast: Eco funerals, snooty Parisians, and putting out the trash with Monsieur Poubelle RFI - Sarah ElzasWhen you die in France you have only two choices: burial or cremation. Neither is particularly green, but you can cut down your carbon footprint by reposing in a eco-cemetery. Paris has just opened its...
RFI English Spotlight on France - Podcast: music as medicine in French hospitals, mental load in pictures, Rimbaud mania RFI - Sarah ElzasHow do you get your point across when no one listens to you? Draw it. From Asterix, to Tintin to Agrippine, comics and graphic novels are an integral part of French culture. We meet Emma: an illustrator...
RFI English Spotlight on France - Podcast: Saffron on the rooftops, Paris climate resilience, how French Catholic Church lost its property RFI - Sarah ElzasOn the roofs of Paris, surrounded by concrete, a special kind of harvest is taking place. Saffron, the world's most expensive spice, was widely grown in France before WW1 but the entirely manual production...
RFI English Spotlight on France - Podcast: the tweeting diplomat, eco-friendly pigs, remembering Algerians massacred in Paris RFI - Sarah ElzasSaucisson, charcuterie: France loves pork. Most pig farms are in Brittany, but the nitrates in the pigs' manure is creating havoc, feeding killer seaweed that has proven fatal on the beaches. We report...
