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Nov 5,2022

Let “The New Paris” introduce you to the latest trends in European baking

One of the incredible aspects of living in Europe is the access to rich bread and baking traditions. They may vary between France, Poland, Germany, and Portugal, let’s say, but what they share is the ongoing movement to protect them. It’s also the theme of the new cookbook by American Laurel Krotochvila, who is based in Berlin and owner of “Fine Bagels”. The book, New European Baking, was the subject of this conversation that took place at The Red Wheelbarrow bookstore on October 6th. This episode is therefore the recording of that interview. It also features a discussion with Xavier Netry, the head bread baker at the beloved Parisian bakery Utopie, who is profiled in Laurel’s book.

Listen to this episode of “The New Paris” here:

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

by The WRP Team

Nov 2,2022

New show: Bonjour Chanson

“Bonjour Chanson”, brings the best of French Language Popular Music to English Speakers.
In each episode, six artists are introduced with one of their songs. The English commentary includes a translation of an excerpt of the lyrics for each song. We introduce well-known and rising artists without forgetting the great talents from yesterday. Frequently, top billing is given to rising artists. Songs are not repeated across episodes. The host, Charles Spira, grew up in Belgium. He has lived many years in English speaking countries: Canada, the United Kingdom and in the U.S.

Bonjour Chanson airs each week on Fridays at 4pm on WRP.

This week’s episode

by The WRP Team

Nov 2,2022

Curious about what it’s really like to work as a waiter in Paris? The Earful Tower’s latest episode gives us an insight

On this week’s Earful Tower podcast episode, host Oliver Gee is joined by Edward Chisholm whose new book “A Waiter in Paris” is taking the world by storm. The book has been hailed by critics as a spellbinding debut novel, and there’s no doubt it’s an intoxicating look at a different side Paris.

“A Waiter in Paris” dares readers to learn the ugly truth about dining in Paris. From Edward’s own experience as a Parisian waiter, he shares his observations of the hidden underbelly of bistros, the corruption of money-hungry management, and the bonds formed between waiters as they battle being overworked and underpaid, while dreaming of the day they can leave the ruthless world of waiting.

Edward joined the Earful Tower in the grand Belle Époque brasserie Bofinger to discuss the book, waiting in Paris, and the myths about working in French restaurants.

Listen to the episode here:

Photo by Valentin B. Kremer on Unsplash

by Michael Parr

Oct 26,2022

Part II of show “Fashion Mode’s” mini series: The Colourful World Of Felix Mas

In the second part of this feature interview show, Charles Daniel McDonald sits down again with Catalan art royalty. Hailed as one of the Spanish Masters, who sits next to Dali, Picasso and Miro. He counts Brad Pitt as a fan, Ivana Trump as a collector and was a guest at Dali’s summer house in Port Lligat. Join us, as we step again into the colourful world of fine artist and illustrator, Felix Mas, to discuss his future inspirations, plans and works.

Listen to the episode here:

Photo and Print: Felix Mas

by The WRP Team

Oct 24,2022

The American University of Paris- listen to their daily show Monday to Thursday on WRP

AUP Radio is a melting pot of voices and ideas. The student radio show is recorded live from the 7th arrondissement, directly from the university. The episodes bring together different perspectives on current affairs, news, cultural phenomena and related topics. The students who present the episodes of the radio programmes are often visited by interesting guests. So there’s more than just one really good reason to listen to this truly local and fresh show.

Make sure to tune in Monday – Thursday, at 9pm here on WRP!

The latest show – AUP

The student radio show and episodes are also in conjunction with the bigger publication of AUP, find out more at https://peacockplume.fr

by The WRP Team

Oct 24,2022

New episode of Turning Points In France: Kelly Rivière – An Irish Story

On this episode of Turning Points in France, Patricia Killeen chatted with Kelly
Rivière, an actress of Franco-Irish origin. Kelly trained in dance at the Lyon Conservatory and then after translation studies in Switzerland, she studied at the renowned Cours Florent theatre school in Paris, where she now teaches “Acting in English” to third-year students She is also a theatre translator and member of the English committee of the Maison Antoine Vitez. In 2017, she created the Innisfree
company and wrote An Irish Story, a bilingual show on the quest for her origins which has been a phenomenal success, winning her the prestigious New Talent Humor SACD prize in 2020. In 2022, she starred in two films Sage-femmes and Une Année Difficile and she regularly reads plays on France Culture. Kelly chatted about how life’s Turning Points can lead you in a completely different direction; her training in, and disappointment with ballet paved the way for her success on the theatre planks, where she found a new liberty of expression. Writing and performing about a family secret has now projected her on an international path.

Listen to the episode here:

Thanks to the encouragement of Nora Hickey M’Sichili, Directrice of the Centre
Culturel Irlandais (CCI), and strong support from the Embassy of France in Ireland.
Kelly will perform An Irish Story, in partnership with the CCI, in four theatres in Ireland this
November. One of the theatres is in Limerick (The Belltable), where her Irish Grandfather was born.
His disappearance marked her family forever. An Irish Story is a journey into the heart of a family with its secrets and its silences.

The touring dates are:

Wednesday 2 November , 6.30pm
Alliance Française Dublin
Tickets

Friday 4 November, 8pm
Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray
Tickets

Tuesday 8 November, 8pm
The Everyman, Cork
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Thursday 10 November, 8pm
Belltable, Limerick
Tickets

by The WRP Team

Oct 20,2022

The New Paris: An episode about seeing Paris in New Ways

A year ago, Simon Burke launched Txango Tours, a business that takes visitors through Paris and beyond on a sidecar. In this episode the host takes a chat with him about seeing the city in unique and unexpected ways so let’s hear from Simon!

Listen to the episode here:

Photo by Davyn Ben on Unsplash

by The WRP Team

Oct 19,2022

New Winter Schedule

Dear WRP listeners, WRP has just introduced a brand new weekend program schedule.

The interview show The Treatment from KCRW has returned for a full hour on Sundays at 3pm, followed by the UK Airplay Chart presented from London by Tom Watts (Capital FM).

This isn’t the only music show arriving on WRP: On Saturdays at 4pm, WRP has launched its own “World Chart Show” hosted by PJ Butta, counting down the week’s top songs aired on our station.

Music shows have been a regular request by our listeners over the years. We are happy to be able to bring music to you with these shows, on DAB+ for the first time in Paris, Nice and Caen.

In addition to replays of these shows at different times, WRP MusicMix, our secondary station (not on DAB airwaves, available online and from our app) will also feature a Weekend Playlist show, playing this week’s new tracks entering our music playlist, presented from our studios by WRP’s own Roger Danjo.

WRP is still mostly a talk station, with great weekend contents such as This American Life, The New Yorker Radio Hour, Left Right and Center, Day 6, RadioLab and many more. Broadcast times have changed, so please check out our schedule section.

by The WRP Team

Oct 18,2022

The Earful Tower is back on WRP: This week about the risk of using French phrases in English

Oliver, Lina, and Eddie discuss how three small French words created a tempest of opinions in Earful Tower circles this month…

They also discuss communication between cultures and languages, the risks of “dumbing down” a children’s book, and their book tour that’s CURRENTLY HAPPENING in Australia.

Listen to this episode of The Earful Tower show here:

Picture: https://theearfultower.com/

by The WRP Team

Oct 14,2022

When a french professor visits France

The big question for this episode of the 409 episode of “Join Us in France” hosted by Annie Sergent is, when a French professor visits France, where does she go? The other question is, how do you make progress in French when people in Paris all speak English?

Brooke Koss is a French professor in Texas. She’s spent a lot of time in France and her visits are a sort of whirlwind of activity going from friend’s house to friend’s house all over France. She calls herself a “Stéphanoise” which means someone from Saint-Etienne. It’s very much off the beaten track for most visitors and yet has a lot to offer.

Listen to this episode here:

Photo by Michał Parzuchowski on Unsplash

by The WRP Team

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