RFI English
Live on Live - Stephan Savarese, TechnoCarbon Technologies France
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- Live on Live - Stephan Savarese, TechnoCarbon Technologies France
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- 11:37
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Live on Live looks ahead to the One Planet Summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron in New York this Wednesday, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. RFI's David Coffey speaks to Stephan Savarese from Techno Carbon Technologies, part of the One Planet Workshop in Paris.
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- Live On Live - The Africa Report September 2018 - Nick Norbrook
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- 11:35
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- RFI's Angela Diffley speaks to Nick Norbrook from The Africa Report about Ethiopia's new Prime Minister and South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters.
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- The translations of South African author JMCoetzee - Georges Lory
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- 12:33
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- RFI's David Coffey speaks to former diplomat Georges Lory who has been translating the works of South African authors into French since the 1970s and recently released "L'abattoir de verre", a selection of short stories by 2003 Nobel Literature Prize winner John Maxwell Coetzee.
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- The man who's fought 40 years to protect the Camargue horse
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The Camargue Horse Centre (Maison du cheval Camargue) was founded in 2002 in order to protect the Camargue species which is one of the oldest breeds of horses in the world.
Meet Georges Vlassis, one of the founder and director of the centre located in Les Saintes Maries de la Mer in southern France.
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- Being a Camargue bull breeder: a family tradition
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Meet Guillaume Linsolas, owner of a herd of bulls at La Manade des Baumelles in Camargue, southern France.
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- Live on Live - Winnaretta Singer biographer Sylvia Kahan
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- 9:47
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Winnaretta Singer was an heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune, a patron of the arts in Paris ... and a lover of many women. She was American-born, a daughter of Isaac Singer - the inventor of the first mass-produced sewing machine. Before her death in 1943, Winnaretta Singer made a name for herself, marrying a prince - but moreover through the five decades she spent welcoming musicians and other artists to her Paris salon.RFI's To learn more about her story, RFI's Amanda Morrow speaks to Winnaretta Singer biographer Sylvia Kahan, a pianist and musicologist in New York.
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- World Cup 2018: Senegalese fans just love it!
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Enthusiastic Senegalese fans before the match against Japan...
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- World Cup 2018: Extactic Russian fans after the opening match
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Live on Live - South African ANC MP Tasneem Motara
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- 12:46
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- RFI's David Coffey talks to South African MP Tasneem Motara about building bridges within the ruling African National Congress and the challenges facing President Cyril Ramaphosa after 100 days in office.
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- Davido, the romantic bad boy
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Nigerian megastar singer Davido was in France recently. Here he is talking about his style that he calls ‘Afro-fusion’ and announces the release of a new album.
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- Live on Live - Global Peace Index Report 2018 - Serge Stroobants
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- 11:08
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- RFI's David Coffey speaks to Serge Stroobants from the Institute for Economics and Peace on whether the world is a safer place in 2018 than it was one year ago, following the publication of the 2018 Global Peace Index.
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- Live on Live - The fight against police impunity in Kenya - Francis Sakwa
- Runtime
- 17:38
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- RFI's David Coffey speaks to Kenyan rights activist Francis Sakwa, about police abuses in Kenya and the uncovering of over 200 cases of police brutality and extra-judicial executions.
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- Documentary looks at trial that sent Mandela to jail
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- 13:34
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- 'The State against Mandela and the Others' is a documentary film based on the official court recording from the Rivonia trials held in South Africa in 1963-64. Out of 10 charged with sabotage, two were acquitted. Among the eight remaining was Nelson Mandela, the man who after 27 years in prison, became South Africa’s first post-apartheid, and first Black president.
RFI's Rosslyn Hyams met directors Nicholas Champeaux and Gilles Porte at the Cannes Film festival which premièred the film out of competition. They bring the seven "others" into the limelight, as well as some of those who supported them in the fight against apartheid.
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- Spike Lee's BlacKKKlansman brings his fight against racism to Cannes
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Spike Lee’s latest film is part of his constant fight against racism. Set in the 1970s, BlacKKKlansman is based on a real life story of an African American police officer in the US who infiltrates the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan. RFI's Rosslyn Hyams has more...
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- Alicia Rohrwacher’s film 'Happy as Lazzaro' #Cannes2018
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Alicia Rohrwacher’s 3rd feature film 'Happy as Lazzaro', is a reworked biblical tale set in Italy. RFI's Rosslyn Hyams has more...
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- Live on Live - Israel's ambassador to France Aliza Bin-Noun
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- 17:01
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The US embassy officially opens its doors in Jerusalem this Monday afternoon amid ongoing celebrations marking 70 years of Israeli independence. The embassy move upends decades of US policy recognising the city as the capital of Israel. RFI's Ollia Horton sat down with Israel's ambassador to France -- Aliza Bin-Noun -- earlier today, and first asked her how important the embassy move is for Israel.
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- Rafik Omrani and Suba Sivakumaran on Cannes Directors' Fortnight
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- 3:56
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Rafik Omrani and Suba Sivakumaran, are budding directors who produced a short film together called l’Oiseau Bleu (Bluebird) in the Directors’ Fortnight’s film incubator, The Factory. This year, the factory pairs directors from Tunisia with peers from Afghanistan, France, Iran and Sri Lanka.
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- South African film project 'Miles from Nowhere' #Cannes2018
- Runtime
- 4:46
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- RFI's Rosslyn Hyams meets producer Bonigwe Selane and director Samantha Nell from South Africa. Their project, 'Miles from Nowhere' is one of the 10 in the 2018 'Cinémas du Monde' production boosting workshop at the Cannes film festival.
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- 'Yomeddine' by Abu Bakr Shawky #Cannes2018
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- 1:59
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- 'Rafiki' by Wanuri Kahiu #Cannes2018
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- 'Rafiki' (Friends) is the first Kenyan film to be selected by the Cannes Film Festival in the official competition for the Golden Palm. Wanuri Kahui's second feature film is shot in Nairobi and tells the story of two young women from different social milieux who fall in love. Welcome in Cannes, the Kenyan censor board has banned the film. RFI's Rosslyn Hyams has more...
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- Live on Live - Niger Climate NGO Founder - Ariane Kirtley
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- 13:16
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The Azawak valley in Niger used to have the richest pastoral lands in West Africa but rainfall has dropped dramatically in recent years. People and animals are dying, fuelling migration to neighbouring countries and Europe. The non-profit Amman Imman (Water for life in the tamashek language) is digging boreholes in the valley: creating oases of life which enable local Touareg and Fulani communities to stay put and thrive. It’s also a bulwark against extremism as founder Ariane Kirtley told RFI’s Alison Hird.
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- Live on Live - Tang Poetry by Du Fu Volume II - Nicolas Chapuit
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- 11:13
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- RFI's Jan Van Der Made speaks to Nicolas Chappuit about translating the classical Chinese poetry of Du Fu.
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- France May 68 posters - 50 years on
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- 1:50
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Paris’ Pompidou Centre hosts the ‘Mai 68 Assemblée Générale’ happening to mark the 50th anniversary of #May68 in France.
The event organiser Romain Lacroix explains what’s behind the happening which runs until 20 May 2018.
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- Tunis: a jewel at the heart of Egypt’s Fayoum oasis
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- 9:20
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The oasis of Fayoum, two hours south of Cairo is in the middle of the desert and gets its water from the ancient salt water lake of Qarun, formerly known as Lake Moeris.
Within the fields of Fayoum, and overlooking Lake Qarun, lies the village of Tunis now a haven for artists and like-minded people. But it wasn’t always like that. RFI’s Anne-Marie Bissada has this report. Photos by Pedro Costa Gomes and Anne-Marie Bissada.
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- Live on Live - Fabien Jannic Cherbonnel, LGBT+ site Komitid
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- 9:11
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- It is five years since same sex marriage was legalised in France, though not without significant opposition. Since then, just under 40,000 same-sex couples have married. A new website has chosen this anniversary date for its launch. It is called Komitid and is aimed at LGBT visitors. Former RFI journalist Fabien Jannic Cherbonnel is one of the journalists on Komitid's team. He spoke to RFI's Angela Diffley.
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- Rebuilding Rogbasha mosque after Ebola in Sierra Leone
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- It's been three years since Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free, but villagers in Bombali District are still paying price. RFI's Laura Angela Bagnetto went to Rogbasha to talk to Imam Mohamed Konteh. Speaking in Temne, Imam Konteh says the mosque started to fall apart because people weren't allowed to meet during Ebola time.
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- The deckhands on the Hermione - Expedit, Benin
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The ship Hermione left the port of La Rochelle, western France, on 21 February, for a four-month sailing in the Mediterranean along the coasts of Africa and Europe. The Hermione is a replica of the frigate that brought General La Fayette to America in 1780 to support rebels during the War of Independence against the British.
350 deckhands will take turns to crew the ship during the different legs. They include around 100 young sailors of 30 different nationalities who come from French speaking countries.
RFI caught up with three of them, Dylan, Syrine and Expedit as they arrived in Marseille on 12 April.
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- The deckhands on the Hermione - Syrine, Tunisia
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The ship Hermione left the port of La Rochelle, western France, on 21 February, for a four-month sailing in the Mediterranean along the coasts of Africa and Europe. The Hermione is a replica of the frigate that brought General La Fayette to America in 1780 to support rebels during the War of Independence against the British.
350 deckhands will take turns to crew the ship during the different legs. They include around 100 young sailors of 30 different nationalities who come from French speaking countries.
RFI caught up with three of them, Dylan, Syrine and Expedit as they arrived in Marseille on 12 April.
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- The deckhands on the Hermione - Dylan, United States (San Diego)
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- 1:40
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The ship Hermione left the port of La Rochelle, western France, on 21 February, for a four-month sailing in the Mediterranean along the coasts of Africa and Europe. The Hermione is a replica of the frigate that brought General La Fayette to America in 1780 to support rebels during the War of Independence against the British.
350 deckhands will take turns to crew the ship during the different legs. They include around 100 young sailors of 30 different nationalities who come from French speaking countries.
RFI caught up with three of them, Dylan, Syrine and Expedit as they arrived in Marseille on 12 April.
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- Live on Live - former US diplomat William Jordan on Syria escalation
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- 11:32
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- RFI's David Coffey speaks to former US political attaché to Syria, William Jordan, on the possibility of a US military strike on Syria in response to Saturday's suspected chemical attack on the town of Douma.
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- Live on Live - Ama Nti-Osei, The Africa Report
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- 8:36
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- RFI's Amanda Morrow speaks to Ama Nti-Osei, from The Africa Report magazine, about what's making headlines in this month's issue.
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- South African award-winning actor Nakhane talks about ‘The Wound’
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- South African musician and actor Nakhane played Xolani, the main character in ‘The Wound’, directed by John Trengove.
The film is about the taboo of being a young gay man in the Xhosa community and despite a campaign to get it banned from cinemas it won six prizes at last month’s South African Film and Television Awards. Nakhane talked to RFI about the controversy.
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- Live on Live - 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination - Curtis Young
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- 10:03
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, RFI's Angela Diffley talks with special guest Curtis Young, former chairman of the Democrats Black Caucus in the United States, about King's legacy and how the fight for equal rights still continues in modern America.
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- Live on Live - Raphaela Kitson-Pantano on Brexit countdown
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- 10:19
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- On March 29th 2019, the UK will leave the European Union. This will be followed by a 21-month transition period. Over the next 12 months, outstanding issues regarding Brexit are going to bubble to the surface. David Coffey finds out more from Raphaela Kitson Pantano, Paris chapter representative of the UK's Liberal Democrat party.
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- Live on Live - Rohingya Testimony - 'First they erased our name' by Sophie Ancel
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- 15:04
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- RFI's David Coffey speaks to journalist and author Sophie Ancel, about her book "First they erased our name", a first hand testimony of the hardships faced by Myanmar's Rohingya community.
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- Live on Live - Angela Merkel's 4th mandate - Berlin Correspondent Emmanuelle Chaze
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- 11:18
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Berlin corres Emmanuelle Chaze joins RFI's Amanda Morrow in the studio for a look at how Germany's political landscape has changed since Angela Merkel finally managed -- after 6 months -- to cobble together another grand coalition.
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- Exhibition Bettina Rheims "Vous êtes finies, douces figures"
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- 0:51
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Curator and art critic Philippe Dagen discusses the exhibition “Vous êtes finies, douces figures” with RFI’s Isabelle Martinetti.
Bettina Rheims, known as the artist who photographs women, has put together around 40 Polaroids from her series "Héroines" (2007). The exhibition sets them off against female African sculptures.
The exhibition runs until 3 June 2018 at Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris.
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- Live on Live - Michael Bahati - Paris Talks Conference on the Future of Humanity
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- 13:59
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- RFI's David Coffey speaks to Michael Bahati, founder of "Expats Paris" and organiser of the "Paris Talks Conference on the Future of Humanity", a one-day conference dedicated to big ideas that will impact the future of the planet.
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- Live on Live - Dr Aurelien Hees on Hawking, Einstein & Pi
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- 11:02
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- In Live on Live, RFI's Dhananjay Khadilkar talks to Dr. Aurelien Hees, CNRS researcher at Observatoire de Paris and Sorbonne University. He talks about the legacy of Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein.
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- Live on Live - The Impact of the British in France - Diana Cooper-Richet
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- 11:06
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- RFI's Angela Diffley speaks to historian and author Diana Cooper-Richet about her latest book on the English in France, and look into the long history of the "Cross-Channel" relationship.
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- The Africa Report - Monthly Meeting with RFI English - Marshall Van Valen
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- 11:01
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- RFI's Angela Diffley talks to Marshall Van Valen from The Africa Report about the upcoming edition of the magazine, and recent events in South africa and the future of jobs and economies on the African continent.
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- France's "stolen children" return to Réunion island
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- 9:59
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- A shameful episode in France's postcolonial history will be brought under the spotlight in March when a government-appointed commission delivers its findings. Between 1966 and 1982 more than 2,000 children were taken from the Indian Ocean island of Réunion and resettled in rural parts of mainland France. Despite promises made at the time, they never saw their biological parents.
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- Live on Live - Cameroonian artist Issa Nyaphaga
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- 12:29
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- RFI's David Coffey talks to Cameroonian artist and social entrepreneur Issa Nyaphaga about cartoons, politics and the "Urban Way".
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- Live on Live - 39th Anniversary of Royal Court Collapse in Iran - Ardavan Amir Aslani
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- 11:00
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- RFI's Alison Hird speaks to prominent Iranian lawyer and businessman, Ardavan Amir Aslani, about how the diaspora is helping to reform Iran, nearly 4 decades after the fall of the Shah and founding of the Islamic republic
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- Live on Live - 2018 Michelin Stars Awarded - Cillian McDonald
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- 11:12
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The Hallowed Michelin Guide has just issued its 2018 edition for France. And you can buy it in the shops from Friday.
The Michelin stars are of course the Oscars of the restaurant world.
Each year top restaurants learn whether they have been awarded 1, 2 or the almost unattainable 3 Michelin stars OR whether they retain stars already bestowed.
Cillian McDonald works as a chef in the Baudelaire Michelin-starred restaurant in Paris, and he came in to talk to RFI's Angela Diffley.
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- Live on Live - Abdeslam Court Case open in Brussels - Jihadism Expert Wassim Nassr
- Runtime
- 12:11
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- As the court case for Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the Islamic State cell that attacked Paris in November 2015, gets underway in Brussels, RFI's Angela Diffley spoke to jihadism specialist Wassim Nassr, about the call to "holy war" in Europe and whether efforts to prevent radicalisation are actually working.
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- Live on Live - author Gerald Olivier on Trump's trip to Davos
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- 10:52
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- US President Donald Trump will soon be making his way to the World Economic Forum in Davos, in the Swiss Alps. As author Gerald Olivia tells RFI's Rosslyn Hyams, it's unusual for a sitting US president to attend ...
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- Kokoko! at the Seine Musicale in Paris
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- 0:47
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Kokoko! are a musical collective with a new, raw sound produced entirely on instruments made from recycled scrap material. RFI caught up with them at the recent Chorus festival at the Seine Musicale in Paris.
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- Live on Live - France 24 and Screen International film critic Lisa Nesselson
- Runtime
- 10:29
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Rosslyn Hyams chats to film critic Lisa Nesselson about the Sundance Film Festival, sexual harassment in the industry and more ...
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- Live on Live - UNESCO Approach To Sexuality Education - Christopher Castle
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- 10:15
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- RFI's David Coffey speaks to Christopher Castle, head health and education at UNESCO, about guidance on sexuality education - a topic that was recently evoked by French President Emmanuel Macron while on a visit to Niger.
