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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6905 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes  5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 1 of 9 22 February 2013 at 8:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Inspired by my all-time favorite thread about cool science podcasts in French, I'd like to ask you about interesting podcasts about social and political issues. Any recommendations will be very much appreciated :).
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| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5102 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 2 of 9 23 February 2013 at 5:14am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but this site has alot of current events/human interest/ general news stories. You can listen live or check out the recordings.
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| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 5132 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 3 of 9 23 February 2013 at 8:52am | IP Logged | ||
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One podcast I love listening to is RFI's Géopolitque - le débat. They dicuss all kinds of geopolitical issues, usually two topics per week à 40 min each, coming in two installments of 20 min each. The last few topics include: Qatar, Sahel/Sahara, Energie et tensions internationales, Israel, Cuba, les défis du second mandat de Barack Obama, sommet UE.
At France Culture and RFI you will find many podcasts discussing societal and political topics, mostly pertaining to France and Africa. Browse through the list and see whether you find something you're interested in. If you do, please let us know here! Edited by Bakunin on 23 February 2013 at 8:55am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6905 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 4 of 9 23 February 2013 at 9:04am | IP Logged | ||
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@Darklight1216
Thanks for the link, it's not what I was looking for but it's still interesting. I'll try to state more clearly what I'm looking for. I think I'd be interested mostly in talking/analytic podcasts. Unscripted conversations on a variety of socially relevant topics would be the best. I'm more interested in podcasts which feature experts than politicians. Other than that, I like documentaries/reportages. Any interesting regular podcasts on society/politics may be interesting, though. :) Edited by Julie on 23 February 2013 at 9:05am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6905 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 5 of 9 23 February 2013 at 9:17am | IP Logged | ||
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@Bakunin, thank you for reminding me of "Géopolitique"; I liked it quite a lot but completely forgot about it.
RFI is my staple French website, I would recommend reportages (e.g. Grand reportage - I usually just browse through the list of episodes to find topics I'm interested in), C'est pas du vent (environmental issues), Accents d'europe (great and simple podcast with short interesting news from European countries, usually ca. 5 topics in less than 20 minutes: politics, society, culture; the only problem is I listened to much of it and can't really stand the format anymore). When I'm thinking about it, I'm probably looking for a podcast which would offer a similar choice and variety of topics as "Accent d'Europe" but discussed in more detail. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 6 of 9 23 February 2013 at 4:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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GLOSS has some texts with audio on these topics... Don't tell anyone but yesterday I read one about a French bank in Africa...
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| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5562 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 7 of 9 23 February 2013 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | ||
100% agree, especially "no politicians" I don't know if video is of any interest to you, but here are a couple of current affairs TV programs I enjoy (or used to). C dans l'air and 28 Minutes I don't know if they're available in all countries. ARTE videos are only available for 7 days. I also like "Les dessous des cartes" although it has gone all wishy-washy, political correct and environmentally sound for the last few years, but there was a good one on vietnam recently) 28 minutes has certain format traits that many french discussion programmes have, that can get a bit irritatingjust because they're so common. (It's just wierd, so many of them have a "chroniquer", I think he's called, who presents a short sort of semi entertaining "intermission", and stuff. I just like things without gimmicks) Sorry, don't know any audio on social issues, but La danse des mots is always interesting about the French language and the Francophonie. Almost forgot Radio Canada is a good source. "Euromag" nay be something similat to "Accents d'Europe", it's a mix of current affairs and news reports from French, Belgian and Swiss sources Edited by schoenewaelder on 23 February 2013 at 5:18pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5534 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 9 23 February 2013 at 5:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Europe 1 Midi is often interesting, though they cover an extremely wide range of subjects. It tends to be a fairly conversational show.
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