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
French press review 11 August 2010
Many French newspapers led with football this morning, and the ongoing saga with the French national squad. As Le Parisien recounts, France play Norway in a friendly tonight – and it’s the first match since the fiasco of the World Cup.
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
Africa-France business conference kicks off
The Column of Quinconces, in Bordeaux
The second Africa-France business conference starts in Bordeaux on Wednesday, described by some as the African Davos. It aims to bring together 100 African and 100 French firms to foster new business ties.
Coming just after the Nice summit, which saw French President Nicolas Sarkozy acknowledge the importance of African economic powerhouses such as South Africa and Nigeria, this conference sees companies from across the continent gather in what is traditionally the wine capital of France.
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