There’s Music in the Kitchen - the 18th of many to come!

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Back by popular demand! This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear a re-play of a special treat: RFI English journalists Zeenat Hansrod and Michael Fitzpatrick share their musical favourites with you. Just click on the arrow in the photo above and enjoy!

Hello everyone! Welcome to The Sound Kitchen weekly podcast, published every Saturday – here on our website, or wherever you get your podcasts. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you’ve grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and listen every week.

Send me your music requests! I’ll make programs of your favorite music when I can’t be in the kitchen to cook up something new for you … write to me at thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr

This week’s quiz: The Sound Kitchen is taking a short break. The quiz will be back next Saturday, on 30 April.

Here’s the music you heard on this week’s program: “Tere Bina Zindagi Se Koi” by Gulzar and R. D. Burman, sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar, and Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings”, performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

Don't forget - it's ePOP time!

Planète Radio is an RFI department that reaches out to remote populations around the world. For the fourth consecutive year, Planète Radio is holding a video competition on environmental issues. The theme of this year’s competition is “Show how they feel”: You are to create a 3-minute video about climate change, the environment, pollution - told by the people it affects. Here’s what Planète Radio says about the competition:

“Environmental deterioration, climate change, pollution, everybody's talking about it. But amid articles, figures, and expert reports, what do we really know about the feelings of the people already impacted? The video clips produced by the ePOP community in more than 50 countries allow us to hear from those who never ask for anything yet have seen it all - those who are already living with these changes that deteriorate their quality of life.”

Your project can be intergenerational: Get together with your grandfather, your aunt, someone older in your community and ask them how they feel about what is happening to their surroundings or to the place where they grew up.

Your project can also be about how you, or people your age, feel about climate change, given that your future ...
24 Apr 2022 English South Africa TV & Film

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