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Spotlight on France
Spotlight on France
RFI English

Interested in France? Let us be your ears and eyes on the ground. Hosts Sarah Elzas and Alison Hird introduce you to... more

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Episodes

Podcast: France's heatwave legacy, 15-minute city conspiracies, the first TGV

How France shifted its approach to heatwaves after nearly 15,000 people died in the summer of 2003. An urban planning... more

14 Sep 2023 · 29 minutes
Podcast: A deeper look at urban and police violence in France's banlieues

As the dust settles on a week of intense urban violence triggered by the police shooting of a young man... more

13 Jul 2023 · 34 minutes
Podcast: wheat on the Seine, denim goes home to Nimes, forgotten first woman filmmaker

How Rouen, a city on the Seine, far from the open sea, became France's largest grain port; denim production returns... more

29 Jun 2023 · 31 minutes
Podcast: New Caledonia dialogue, homophobia in French football, moonlighting novelists

How to get New Caledonians talking to each other; the incompatibility of being gay and a football player in France,... more

15 Jun 2023 · 34 minutes
Podcast: Conserving a martyred village, abortion drug shortages, identifying HIV

The village of Oradour-sur-Glane continues to memorialise the massacre of 643 of its inhabitants by the Nazis in 1944. Are... more

01 Jun 2023 · 34 minutes
Podcast: French union paradox, Tintin today, first Miss France

Why French unions are so prominent despite record low membership. How Tintin defied critiques of racism, sexism and anti-Semitism to... more

04 May 2023 · 27 minutes
Podcast: holding multinationals to account, Agent Orange on stage, ten years of gay marriage

France's pioneering 2017 law that made French-based multinational companies responsible for human rights and environmental violations wherever they do business.... more

20 Apr 2023 · 33 minutes
Podcast: France and China, menstrual leave, the 'Picasso Papers'

France's evolving relationship with China; allowing women time off for period pain; and why artist Pablo Picasso never became French.

06 Apr 2023 · 27 minutes
Podcast: testing French democracy, surviving eco-anxiety, naming children

Is the French government denying people their democratic rights by passing its controversial pension reform without a vote in parliament?... more

23 Mar 2023 · 28 minutes
Podcast: French farmers post-Ukraine, fast fashion fallout, Life of Jesus

How French farmers are adapting since the war in Ukraine halted grain and seed exports. Why we need to buy... more

09 Mar 2023 · 29 minutes
Spotlight on France
Podcast: France's heatwave legacy, 15-minute city conspiracies, the first TGV
Spotlight on France