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Electric vehicles star at Paris car show
Citroen’s DS3 World Rally Car at the Paris car show 2010
This year’s Paris car show is all about electric vehicles and French manufacturers are leading the charge. Citroën and Renault are dominating the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre with Renault’s Dezir concept car attracting lots of stares and Citroën showing off its DS3 rally car.
Radio Feature: Focus on France
Competition in France’s conservative camp as reshuffle looms
François Fillon, October 2008, CC licence: europeanpeoplesparty
It was make or break time for French Prime Minister François Fillon on French television on Sunday night. Facing a government reshuffle by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in October, Fillon could be said to be positioning himself as a possible future presidential candidate. He has remained obedient to Sarkozy since his appointment in 2007, maintaining what he calls an “alliance”. But is now the time for him to go it alone?
Radio Feature: Focus on France
Video games, bonobo, lemon curd and lies
Screens at MuseoGames exhibition
This week’s Sound Kitchen visits the MuseoGames exhibition at the Arts et Metiers museum in Paris to play video games and find out why it’s just been extended until December. Rachel Khoo, a food creative, and author of Pâtes à tartiner shows us how to make lemon curd. Our regular quiz taxes your ears with another mystery sound. And we have dance music from Bonobo, Alltrics and Fenech Soler.
Radio Magazine: The Sound Kitchen
Mbida to contest presidency after 13-year exile
Mbida, August 2009, CC licence: Democratecamerounais
After almost 13 years in voluntary exile, Louis Tobie Mbida, leader of the Cameroonian Party of Democrats (CPD), announced he will return to Yaoundé on 2 September and is planning to run in the presidential elections in 2011.
Radio Interview: Louis Tobie Mbida, Cameroonian Party of Democrats
Skunk Anansie and Cypress Hill at Rock en Seine
Rock en Seine poster
With a line-up to die for, Paris’ Rock en Seine festival this weekend gives French fans a last chance to party before the hordes return to the capital. Californian hip hop bad boys Cypress Hill told RFI about collaborating with Blink 182’s drummer, while British rockers Skunk Anansie talk about thievery, preaching to the converted and their new album Wonderlustre.
Radio Feature: Focus on France
Lightning Bolt strikes Paris
Usain Bolt at the Courir shop on Paris’ Champs l’Elysees, 15 July
The fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt, ran in Paris this week. In his second race since returning from injury he beat Jamaican compatriot Asafa Powell in the 100 metres with a time of 9.84 seconds.
Ahead of the race Sports Insight caught up with Bolt at a special event launching his new sportswear collection to find out about his return from an Achilles tendon problem, his favourite football team and his DJing.
Radio Feature: Sports Insight
Glastonbury festival 40th anniversary
Glastonbury festival 2010
Glasto 2010
Britain’s Glastonbury festival kicked off this week, arguably Europe’s most famous and most celebrated music festival. The area of farmland in Somerset, south-west England is hosting a jam-packed weekend of music, arts and culture.
The festival’s hippy ethos brings together people from all walks of life, offering what it describes as a beacon of hope and aspiration. This year it also celebrates a very special anniversary.
Radio Report
Presenter: Richard Walker
Hip hop and points for losers: street football cup begins
Street Football French Cup
The street football French Cup kicked off this weekend at Bertrand Dauvin stadium in Paris. It brings together 16 teams from all four corners of France, all vying to be crowned French champions. The game has a different style to conventional football: hip hop music played throughout each short match, teams of five players, black cards instead of red and points for losers.
Radio Feature: Sports Insight
Andre Manoukian talks jazz and philosophy
Talking at the Paris Saint Germain Des Pres jazz festival
Andre Manoukian is the closest the French have to Simon Cowell. The composer and philosopher, who is a judge on the equivalent to Pop Idol, talked about music, life and why he likes Gilles Deleuze, at the Paris Saint-German-Des-Pres jazz festival, which kicked off last week.
Radio Feature: Culture in France
Unlikely couples in Paris on Valentine’s Day
Musicians and Performers at the Carnaval de Paris
For this year’s Valentine’s Day, where else would you find improbable couples such as monks, nuns and prostitutes? At the Carnaval de Paris – a vibrant mix of musicians and performers who are entertaining Parisians on Sunday alongside giant statues and carnival floats.
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