The WRP Team – World Radio Paris

Mar 25,2023

New shows for the Summer

WRP’s 2023 summer schedule is being introduced with daylisght savings time this weekend.

From Monday to Friday each week, we are changing our evening schedule a little bit: At 5pm, we will bring you the full two-hour BBC live show called “Outside Source” hosted by Nuana McGovern to bring you up-to-date with the day’s trending stories from the heart of the BBC’s newsroom.

Also, in order to add a bit more culture on air, we decided to introduce a celebrated show, hosted by Tom Power and produced by the CBC in Toronto, simply called Q. This show features interviews with actors, singers, writer and all sorts of established or rising artists.

You can find our complete summer schedule under the “Schedule” tab just above.

Thanks for listening to your listener-supported radio station in English in France, WRP.

by The WRP Team

Mar 13,2023

ITER Season 2: Episode 1 – Women at ITER

The ITER Podcast is back with Season 2, which revolves around Planet ITER. Season 1 took a look at what nuclear fusion is and how one of the largest, most complex science experiments on Earth is taking shape in the south of France, bit by bit.

Season 2 begins to orbit this world in order to understand its multifaceted inhabitants, their motivations and challenges. From hearing about their love for fusion, to meeting some of the women involved or gaining a first-hand perspective on what it’s like to be a part of this extraordinary, once-in-a-lifetime global project, “The ITER World” pulls listeners into its gravity.

Hear the first episode of the new season:

by The WRP Team

Mar 6,2023

Turning Points in France: Tara Phillips – Executive Director of La Maison Baldwin

On this episode of “Turning Points in France”, Patricia Killeen chatted with Tara Phillips.
Tara is a consultant, a writer and a leader. She has enjoyed a diverse career in the social
sector, serving for the past 30 years as a teacher, executive director, development director and
national program director. She has developed skills in organization and change management
to bring justice and equity to the education sector for communities across the United States.
Before consulting, Tara served five years as executive director of an elementary charter
school in Brooklyn, securing the school’s only five-year charter renewal.

Tara holds a B.S. in Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University and an
Executive Master’s degree in Consulting and Coaching for Change from HEC Paris, in
partnership with the University of Oxford.

She began her literary writing career in 2018, when she packed her bags, moved to Paris, and
launched her blog, “My Year on Mombbatical”, chronicling her insights and adventures
during an unexpected year off from parenting her teenage son. This platform allowed her to
ask the question, “What happens on the journey from “mom” to me?” and she was soon a
published writer.She had originally planned to stay here for a year but like many of us, the best-laid plans of mice and men made the Gods laugh and Tara is blossoming further in the City of Light 5
years later.

She has had many interesting turning points in her life, including her move to Paris,
experiencing lockdown here, developing her writing, and being appointed Executive
Director of La Maison Baldwin (named after writer James Baldwin) in January 2023.
She feels, “Baldwin already paved my way as a fellow writer and Black expatriate in Paris”.
WRP wishes Tara every success in her new role, knowing she’ll do her two Jimmys proud
(Baldwin and her deceased father Jimmy Phillips). Tara’s passionate essay, written in 2020: “Baldwin & Baguettes: A Mother’s Burden at a Distance” at the end of the interview, leaves us with so much to reflect on…

Listen to the episode here:

www.myyearonmombbatical.blog
www.tlphillips.info
https://www.lamaisonbaldwin.fr/our-history
https://tuenight.com/between-baldwin-baguettes-a-mothers-burden-at-a-distance/

by The WRP Team

Mar 3,2023

Help Les Restos du Coeur

This next weekend Les Restaurants du Coeur are organizing a special additional « collecte », which is a food collection in various supermarkets. Clients are invited to buy some useful foods (rice, pasta, etc) to be donated to the renowned charity upon exit.

This winter, with a 15% inflation rate on basic foods, Resto du Coeur has seen a huge increase in the number of families helped on a weekly basis thanks to food donations.

You can also help them by donating money directly on https://dons.restosducoeur.org/particulier/~mon-don?_cv=1

Les Restaurants du Coeur is one of France’s most well-known charity, created in the early 1980’s by late comedian Coluche to reduce hunger and poverty in the country. Unfortunately it has grown each year and seems ever more needed in a country which counts hundreds of thousands of people below poverty line.

by The WRP Team

Feb 24,2023

Your daily dose of Canada on WRP

In 1968, As It Happens premiered on CBC Radio, with what may have seemed like a gimmicky premise: so many other shows rely on a call-in format – what if we call out? It was so simple it was brilliant. It enabled the program to interview people across the country and around the world, just by dialing a number: Canadian and world leaders, regular people in extraordinary circumstances, excited scientists, and proud eccentrics of all kinds.

And it proved prescient as well. We no longer have to reach people via rotary phone in their living rooms or offices — As It Happens can get hold of anyone, anywhere, who’s got a story to tell. Night after night, host Nil Köksal brings you in-depth, conversations with the people near, or at, the centre of the day’s news.

As it Happens. Radio that found its calling: calling. Airs at 1am and 6am Tuesday to Saturday on WRP.

by The WRP Team

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