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The EI PodcastHow the liberation of France shaped the modern world
Agnès Poirier, journalist and broadcaster, examines how the liberation of France in 1944 opened the way for Paris to become a laboratory of ideas. Read by Helen Lloyd.
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Image: Parisians gather around the Arc de Triomphe as Allied forces liberate the city. Credit: RBM Vintage Images / Alamy Stock Photo.2025-05-0117 min
Front RowJane Austen's sister, artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman, football in fictionAs new BBC One drama adaptation, Miss Austen, shines fresh light on Jane Austen's sister Cassandra, Gill Hornby, who wrote the eponymous novel on which Miss Austen is based, and Claire Harman, author of Jane's Fame, How Jane Austen Conquered The World, discuss how perceptions of Cassandra's burning of her sister's letters have been changing.Paris-based journalist and cultural critic Agnès Poirier reports on President Macron's announcement at the Louvre.Artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman reflects on weaving together personal, historical, and social stories in her exhibition , Chila Welcomes You, at Imperial War Museum N...2025-01-2842 min
SundayNotre-Dame reopens, Justin Welby's Lords farewell speech, and faith in Moana 2Notre-Dame is reopening to the public after 5 years of renovation, following a devastating fire in 2019. But the cathedral is much more than a building - and many secular minded people in France would say that it's much more than a cathedral too. We hear from our Paris Correspondent, Hugh Schofield and commentator Agnes Poirier, author of "Notre Dame - the Soul of France".The Archbishop of Canterbury has apologised for causing distress after Church of England abuse survivors criticised his House of Lords farewell speech. Jane Chevous, the co-founder of Survivors Voices joins the programme. ...2024-12-1043 minFront RowReopening of Notre-Dame, Jacob Collier, Marshall Brickman, King Winter's BirthdayIn 2019 fire destroyed the much of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. As the restoration is completed, Agnes Poirier describes the work of skilled artisans that she has watched over the past five years. Her documentary series for the World Service In the Studio programmes can be heard on BBC Sounds. Jacob Collier discusses and plays from his new Grammy nominated album, Djesse, Volume 4. The novelist Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz was interned as an "enemy alien" on the Isle of Man during World War Two, where he wrote a children's story recently unearthed in archive 80 years later. Writer Jonathan Freedland...2024-12-0242 min
The Documentary PodcastIn the Studio: The rebuilding of Notre DameThe cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris is one of France’s most famous landmarks. It has stood on the Île de la Cité in the heart of France’s capital since the 12th Century. On 15 April 2019, it was engulfed by flames, but thanks to the bravery of hundreds of firefighters, Notre Dame remained standing. The devastation was, however, immense. The spire collapsed into the nave and the lead roof melted and evaporated. The lattice framework underneath it, made of a thousand oak beams known affectionately as The Forest, turned to charcoal and dust. Agnès Poirier travels around France...2024-12-0151 min
FRDH Podcast with Michael GoldfarbReborn From the Flames: Notre Dame ReopensThe cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris nearly burned to the ground five years ago, now, fully restored it is about to re-open. It is a remarkable rebirth. Agnes Poirier, native Parisienne, journalis and author of Notre Dame: the Soul of France, talks to FRDH host Michael Goldfarb about the fire, the restoration and the deep meaning of the cathedral being re-born for contemporary France. Give them 30:34 to tell you about it.2024-11-2730 min
The EI PodcastEI Portraits — Agnès Poirier on Anna de Noailles, bright star of the Belle ÉpoqueSocialite and literary pioneer - Anna de Noailles was a bright star in the firmament of the Parisian Belle Époque. Read by Sebastian Brown.
Image: De László's portrait of Anna de Noailles. Credit: Svintage Archive / Alamy Stock Photo 2024-08-2912 min
Monocle on SundayLive from ParisAgnes Poirier joins Emma Nelson at Maison Allianz in Paris for the latest news from Paris. Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, joins from St Moritz, and Philippe Marlière and Georgina Godwin give us the view from London. Plus: Kieran Pender gives us the latest Olympics updates and we speak to the brothers Jules and Gédéon Naudet who have been selected to direct the official film of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2024-08-0454 minFront RowKeanu Reeves & China Miéville, The Cultural Olympiad in Paris, Making in BlackburnHollywood star Keanu Reeves and award-winning author China Miéville have joined forces for The Book of Elsewhere, which is based on Keanu's hit comic book series BRZRKR and tells the story of an immortal warrior and his journey through time.As Paris prepares to welcome the world for the Olympic and Paralympic Games this week, the writer and broadcaster Agnés Poirier reports on the City of Light's Cultural Olympiad.Nick visits Blackburn to meet co-founder and co-director of the National Festival of Making, Elena Jackson, and to see two of this year's festival co...2024-07-2442 min
La LoupeLe dossier à la Une : au Royaume Uni, l’autre élection qui bouscule le gouvernementChaque lundi, La Loupe prend le temps de décortiquer la Une de L’Express. Pour comprendre le travail des journalistes, on vous raconte tout sur l’écriture du grand dossier du magazine et on se penche sur les points clés de ces articles. Cette semaine, on s’envole outre-Manche pour comprendre pourquoi après quatorze années dans l’opposition, le Parti travailliste est aujourd’hui aux portes du pouvoir britannique. Les explications d’Agnès C. Poirier, correspondante de L’Express à Londres. Retrouvez tous les détails de l'épisode ici et inscrivez-vous à notre n...2024-07-0115 min
Best of the SpectatorSpectator Out Loud: Matt Ridley, William Cook, Owen Matthews and Agnes PoirierOn this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Matt Ridley argues that whoever you vote for, the blob wins (1:02); William Cook reads his Euros notebook from Germany (12:35); Owen Matthews reports on President Zelensky’s peace summit (16:21); and, reviewing Michael Peel’s new book ‘What everyone knows about Britain’, Agnes Poirier ponders if only Britain knew how it was viewed abroad (22:28).
Presented by Patrick Gibbons. 2024-06-2228 min
Spectator Out LoudMatt Ridley, William Cook, Owen Matthews and Agnes PoirierOn this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Matt Ridley argues that whoever you vote for, the blob wins (1:02); William Cook reads his Euros notebook from Germany (12:35); Owen Matthews reports on President Zelensky’s peace summit (16:21); and, reviewing Michael Peel’s new book ‘What everyone knows about Britain’, Agnes Poirier ponders if only Britain knew how it was viewed abroad (22:28). Presented by Patrick Gibbons. Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more.For more Spectator podcasts, go to spectator.co.uk/podcasts. Cont...2024-06-2228 min
A Novel Review PodcastEp 63. “Zulaikha” by Niloufar-Lily SoltaniTo follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com
A war that divides a family, divides a city and a country. A girl that grows into a woman moulded by her experiences, but never letting them define who she is. Zulaikha moves through life with an honesty towards it, but a resilience to what it throws at her. This sweeping debut novel explores the resilience of humanity in the face of destruction and offers the reader a glimpse into the beauty that is all around.
Painting: I painted the city, because it is the...2024-06-1822 min
FRDH Podcast with Michael GoldfarbElections 2024: France & Macron’s Big Gamble2024 was always going to be a year of elections globally but not in France, now President Emanuel Macron has taken a huge gamble and called a snap general election for the French parliament. Why did Macron risk the final three years of his presidency? What are the chances of his big gamble paying off? Author Agnes Poirier and former BBC present Gavin Esler look at France, the EU elections and Britain's upcoming general election and try to figure out Macron's odds.2024-06-1150 min
Tonight with Andrew MarrPresident Macron Declares Snap ElectionAndrew Marr speaks to French journalist Agnes Poirier and James Cleverly about European politics and Nigel Farage's comments regarding Rishi Sunak's patriotism and whether it was a dog whistle. 2024-06-1051 min
Sound of CinemaCannes Film FestivalCannes is one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. In this week’s Sound of Cinema, Matthew Sweet catches up with journalist and film critic Agnes Poirier who is in Cannes to put us at the heart of the festival. She tells of encounters with Jack Nicholson on his way home from a party at 7am and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a shoe shop. She also talks about the growing recognition of female directors and the global nature of film.2024-05-2525 min
20 Questions With20 Questions With Agnes Poirier on ParisAuthor and journalist Agnes Poirier takes us on a whirlwind tour of historical and contemporary Paris, illuminating some of its cultural and political landmarks and telling the story of its prominence as one of the great capitals of the world. Along the way we encounter the French Revolution, the building, burning and rebuilding of Notre Dame, the significance of the Eiffel Tower, the French resistance, religion and secularism, the rebirth of the city after the Nazi occupation, Coco Chanel, the Banlieue, the Left Bank and its personalities, the Catacombs, culinary tradition and, of course, a reputation for love.
2024-04-0248 min20 Questions With20 Questions With Agnes Poirier on ParisAuthor and journalist Agnes Poirier takes us on a whirlwind tour of historical and contemporary Paris, illuminating some of its cultural and political landmarks and telling the story of its prominence as one of the great capitals of the world. Along the way we encounter the French Revolution, the building, burning and rebuilding of Notre Dame, the significance of the Eiffel Tower, the French resistance, religion and secularism, the rebirth of the city after the Nazi occupation, Coco Chanel, the Banlieue, the Left Bank and its personalities, the Catacombs, culinary tradition and, of course, a reputation for love.
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La LoupeL’échec du multiculturalisme britannique ?“Keep calm and carry on”... L’expression britannique semble appropriée en ce moment, dans un Royaume-Uni divisé face au conflit israélo-palestinien. Hausse de l’antisémitisme d’un côté, islamophobie de l’autre, c’est aujourd’hui tout le modèle multiculturel anglais qui est remis en cause. Les explications d’Agnès C. Poirier, correspondante de L’Express à Londres, et Anne Rosencher, directrice déléguée de la rédaction. Retrouvez tous les détails de l'épisode ici et inscrivez-vous à notre newsletter. L'équipe : Écriture et présentation : Charlotte Baris2024-03-2820 minFront RowSheridan Smith. Movement Coaches and Sexism in French CinemaIn an exclusive for Front Row, Sheridan Smith performs Magic, a song from her new musical Opening Night, which is directed by Ivo Van Hove, with music from Rufus Wainwright. They discuss creating the new musical, which is based on the 1970s film and follows an actress going through a breakdown as she prepares to open a new show on Broadway.Journalist Agnes Poirier on the French film awards the Cesars, and why they were overshadowed by allegations of male directors sexually abusing young female actors. Movement director Polly Bennett has worked on hits like...2024-02-2642 min
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Mokoomba - Nzara Hap...2023-08-142h 00Front RowRemembering Milan Kundera, author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Northern Soul Prom, the winner of the Art Fund Museum of the YearFront Row remembers the renowned Czech-born novelist, poet and essayist Milan Kundera who has died aged 94. Novelist Howard Jacobson and French journalist Agnès Poirier discuss the influence of his magical realist writing. Imagine a world where prison inmates fight to the death, for entertainment. That’s the premise of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the debut novel of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, who joins Samira live in the studio to discuss writing inspired by his dislike of the American justice system.The first Northern Soul Prom is happening this weekend. Writer and broadcaster Stuart Maconie, who has co-curated the...2023-07-1242 min
The Documentary PodcastIn the Studio: The Aquatics Centre, Paris Olympics 2024In September 2017, The International Olympic Committee announced that a century after France last hosted the Olympics in 1924, the games would be returning to Paris for the third time in its history. The 2024 games, are set to become the most sustainable games to date and are following a new model -which involves only two new construction projects for the entire games – The Aquatics Centre and Olympic Village. The bid therefore to design the only new permanent sports facilities for Paris 2024 was highly sought after. French journalist, writer and broadcaster, Agnès Poirier, follows the architects who have won this coveted con...2023-07-1027 min
The EI PodcastWorldview — A Sacred Coronation for a Secular NationAdam Boulton is joined by Paul Lay, Senior Editor of Engelsberg Ideas, Agnès Poirier, journalist and author, and Royal biographer Hugo Vickers, to reflect on the deep meaning and symbolism of Britain's Coronation.
Image: King Charles III views a wooden carving at St. Laurence's Church in Ludlow, Shropshire. Credit: Michelle Jones / Alamy Stock Photo.2023-05-0529 min
Agroécologie Voyageuse#66 Hannah et Melody 💐🐑 Futures paysannes entre fleurs et laineVous allez plonger dans un dialogue à 3, entre Hannah, Melody participantes de la promo 3 de l’Ecole d’Agroécologie Voyageuse et moi. Un moment partagé un dimanche matin lors du dernier regroupement en février en Sologne. J’ai envie de résumer cet épisode en 3 thèmes qui nous passionnent et nous nourrissent toutes les trois. Et qui sont liées à l’épisode précédent avec Agnès Poirier. Ces 3 thèmes sont : la beauté, la relation à la mort de l’animal et le tissage entre oeuvrer pour le Vivant et lutter contre un modèle qui ne nous convient plus.
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Agroécologie Voyageuse#65 Agnès Poirier 🌾🎥 "Je suis fière d'être Fille de Paysans"Cela fait longtemps que je souhaitais faire un épisode avec elle pour plusieurs raisons. Déjà parce qu’elle m’inspire beaucoup et j’aime échanger avec des personnes qui nourrissent mon esprit et mon âme. Ensuite, sa connexion au monde paysan et à la place des paysans dans notre monde, car elle est fille de paysans, a grandi dans une ferme en Bourgogne, ce qui a généré pour elle l’envie de réaliser plusieurs films documentaires à ce sujet. Elle a notamment co-réalisé, en 2021, le film « Nous Paysans » et « L’installation » avec Fabien Beziat. Un autre point important, c’est qu’elle...2023-04-111h 07
La vie en BDS12E22 - Club de lecture - Récits de solitudec'est Club de lecture à La vie en BD, sous le thème «Récits de solitude». En lecture? «Nagasaki» d'Agnès Hostache (Le Lézard Noir), «Le Rapport de Broddek» de Manu Larcenet (Dargaud), «Ed Gein: autopsie d'un tueur en série» d'Harold Scheschter et Eric Powell (Delcourt) et «November» de Matt Fraction et Elsa Charettier (Sarbacane).Rendez-vous dès 19h sur CKRL 89,1 en compagnie de vos quatre lecteurs, Marco Duchesne, Émilie Roy-Brière, Raymond Poirier et Edouard Tremblay.2023-02-2252 min
Stolpe StoriesPorträtt ur historien: Anna de NoaillesAnna Elisabeth Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan (1876-1933) föddes i Paris som prinsessa och blev genom giftermål med Mathieu de Noailles grevinnan Anna de Noailles. Hon debuterade 1901 med poesihäftet Le coeur innombrable och kom därefter ut med fyra diktsamlingar och tre romaner. de Noailles har gått till historien som en litterär föregångare och en av de starkast lysande stjärnorna under La belle époque. Om henne handlar veckans avsnitt av Porträtt ur historien.Du finner Porträtt ur historien och Bokförlaget Stolpes övriga utgivning hos Bokus.se, dessutom till 20 procent...2023-02-2215 min
A Good ReadAgnes Poirier & Nikki MayAgnes Poirier the French writer and broadcaster and British-Nigerian novelist Nikki May introduce us to their favourite books. Nikki chooses a haunting novel about life after the breakdown of society following a flu pandemic. Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel was written well before Covid and was published in 2014. Although it depicts the collapse of civilisation it is not a grimly depressing post apocalyptic read. Centred around a group of travelling actors and musicians the story flips back and forth to their lives before and after the virus making each character much rounder than had they merely been...2023-01-3127 minFront RowRichard Eyre's The Snail House; Sylvia Anderson and women in TV; the late Jean-Luc GodardSir Richard Eyre is one of the UK’s most distinguished and celebrated directors - equally at home in theatre, film, and television. At the age of 79, he has just made his debut as a playwright with his new play, The Snail House, which has just opened at Hampstead Theatre. He talks to Samira about his late literary blooming and what needs to happen for theatre audiences to return to their pre-pandemic levels. The name Sylvia Anderson was recently invoked by Dr. Lisa Cameron MP, during a debate on gender equality in the media in Westminster Hall. Th...2022-09-1342 minFront RowNotre-Dame On Fire and novel Milk Teeth reviewed; Jennifer Walshe performs live; writer Alan Grant rememberedNotre-Dame On Fire, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, is a film dramatising the events of the horrifying night on April 15, 2019 when the cathedral that symbolises so much in France and beyond started to burn. Milk Teeth is the second novel from Jessica Andrews, whose debut Saltwater won the Portico Prize in 2020. It explores appetite, control and desire in a young woman from the north of England who finds herself in the heat of Spain. The writer Sarah Hall and the journalist Agnès Poirier review both.Ahead of her upcoming Proms performance in the Royal Albert Hall, composer a...2022-07-2142 min
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In this beautiful collection, 20 outstanding writers set out with old memories and new adventures. ‘I’ve always hated walking,’ Harland Miller offers as his precis, while Ingrid Persaud and Agnes Poirier consider the rituals of pilgrimage and protest march. ‘It isn’t a walking city,’ Kamila Shamsie writes of Karachi, though she strides across it regardless. On the shores of Foulness Isl...2022-03-316h 52
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Genres: Walking
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In this beautiful collection, 20 outstanding writers set out with old memories and new adventures. ‘I’ve always hated walking,’ Harland Miller offers as his precis, while Ingrid Persaud and Agnes Poirier consider the rituals of pilgrimage and protest march. ‘It isn’t a walking city,’ Kamila Shamsie writes of Karachi, though she strides across it regardless. On the shores of Foulness Isl...2022-03-316h 52
Midi Magazine« Nous, paysans»LA GRANDE ÉPOPÉE DES AGRICULTEURS FRANÇAIS
En février dernier sur France 2, le documentaire « Nous, paysans », est diffusé. Il réalise une performance en termes d’audience : plus de 5 millions de téléspectateurs. Dans ce Midi-Magazine du 3 décembre, Florence Terray interviewe Agnès Poirier, réalisatrice du documentaire et co-auteure du livre « NOUS PAYSANS » qui vient de paraitre chez Flammarion. C’est l’histoire de nos parents, de nos grands-parents et de nos arrière-grands-parents, et aussi celle des nouvelles générations désormais à l’œuvre. « NOUS PAYSANS » raconte la grande épopée des agriculteurs français qui, en moin...2022-03-2850 minFront RowDavid Byrne, Arts Minister Lord Parkinson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Agnès Poirier on culture in ParisMusician, film maker and artist David Byrne discusses his new book A History of the World (in Dingbats) - a collection of more than 100 line drawings he created during the Covid-19 pandemic. The striking figurative drawings explore daily life and our shared experiences in recent years, and capture the changes and challenges of life today.As the Government announces fresh plans to ‘level up the arts’ outside of London, we speak to the Minister for the Arts, Lord Parkinson about how and where the additional £75 million of funding will be spent.Journalist and author Agnès Poir...2022-02-2342 min
World Review from the New StatesmanWhat is happening to the French right? | France ElectsIn just over six weeks, voters in France will go to the polls in the first round of the 2022 presidential election, in which President Emmanuel Macron’s toughest competition for re-election comes from the right. This week, the New Statesman’s Europe correspondent, Ido Vock, examines the state of the French right wing. He, along with special guests Agnès Poirier, a journalist and the author of Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, and Catherine Fieschi, the director of Counterpoint, looks at the likely battle for second place between the Republican candidate Valérie P...2022-02-2229 min
SVAGORADIOSVAGORADIO Puntata 3 del 7 Ottobre 2021In questa Terza Puntata : in uscita il nuovo disco del batterista Joe Farnsworth “City of Sounds”, qualche anticipazione per voi. La Segnalazione Interessante di questa settimana vi propone “Rive Gauche : Arte, Passione e Rinascita a Parigi 1940-1950” di Agnès Poirier e di “Freud. Una Vita per i nostri tempi” di Peter Gay. Un ricordo della celebre Veronica Franco, poetessa e cortigiana. Per Ascoltiamolo Ancora: Gigi Proietti Don Chisciotte in TV del 1970 per la regia di Carlo Quartucci . I nostri consigli per andare in Scena: ascoltare il fiato. Ospite di questa settimana Pietro Dattola ci parla del Festival “Inventaria” . In chiusura v’inviti...2021-10-0736 minFront RowCathy Brady, Mick Fleetwood, Jean Paul BelmondoGuitarist Peter Green last performed with Fleetwood Mac, the band he help found, in 1970. Fellow founding-member Mick Fleetwood has honoured Green's legacy in an all-star concert that will be shown in cinemas, celebrating the band's early music. Mick Fleetwood talks to Samira about the early days of Fleetwood Mac, working with Peter, and dreams of a Fleetwood Mac reunion.Filmmaker Cathy Brady has already won international prizes for her short films. Now she’s made her debut feature film, Wildfire. An exploration of the relationship between two sisters in a Northern Ireland town as they try to co...2021-09-0628 min
Arts & IdeasAlain Robbe-GrilletA "cubist" story - with a plot and timeline broken up and repetitive descriptions of objects, like a painting by Picasso, is one way in which the French nouveau romain of the 1960s has been described. Alain Robbe Grillet (1922 – 2008) was one of the main figures associated with this literary movement. He was also a member of the High Committee for the Defense and Expansion of French and published novels called Les Gommes (Erasers), Le Voyeur (the Voyeur), and collaborated on films with Alan Resnais which included the1961 film Last Year at Marienbad. This film was nominated for the 1963 Academy Aw...2021-07-1444 min
The Rest Is HistoryParisIt may just be the most popular city on earth. Throughout history Paris has maintained a grip on the public imagination, thanks to its culture, architecture and its people.French journalist and historian Agnès Poirier joins Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook to discuss La Ville Lumièr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices2021-05-2754 min
AnalysisWhat the Foucault?Last December Liz Truss made a speech. The Minister for Women and Equalities spoke about her memories of being at school in Leeds. She was taught about sexism and racism, she said, but not enough time was spent on being taught how to read and write. "These ideas," said Truss, "have their roots in post-modernist philosophy - pioneered by Foucault - that put societal power structures and labels ahead of individuals and their endeavours."So do Foucault's ideas pose a real danger to social and cultural life in Britain? Or is he a "bogeyman" deployed by some...2021-05-2428 min
Des bouquins dans les pochesAgnès C.Poirier, pour l’amour de Notre-Dame de ParisAgnès C. Poirier est écrivain et journaliste. Deux ans après le terrible incendie qui ravagea la toiture et la flèche de Notre-Dame de Paris, elle publie « Notre-Dame, l’âme d’une nation » aux éditions Flammarion. Un récit haletant du sinistre et du rôle de la cathédrale dans l’histoire de France depuis plus de 850 ans.Le soir du 15 avril 2019, la France et le Monde découvrent Notre-Dame de Paris prise d’assaut par des flammes impitoyables. La sidération, le choc et l’émotion vécus cette nuit-là par le monde entier révèle l’importance de ce monume...2021-04-0926 min
Uncommon Decency11. What US Media Gets Wrong About France, with Anne-Élisabeth Moutet & Agnès PoirierWhilst France undergoes a genuine introspection over how to tackle Islamic separatism in the wake of renewed terrorism, US media have taken to portraying “laïcité" in a strikingly one-sided way, as some sort of thin veil for islamophobia. Where does this skewed lens come from? Why do foreign correspondents, particularly from American outlets, insist on catering to the woke sensibilities of their domestic audience by conveying only one side of the story, however narrowly espoused across France? This latest episode isn’t really a debate in itself but an attempt to give our English-speaking audience what hasn’t been aff...2020-12-111h 07
Uncommon Decency11. What US Media Gets Wrong About France, with Anne-Élisabeth Moutet & Agnès PoirierWhilst France undergoes a genuine introspection over how to tackle Islamic separatism in the wake of renewed terrorism, US media have taken to portraying “laïcité" in a strikingly one-sided way, as some sort of thin veil for islamophobia. Where does this skewed lens come from? Why do foreign correspondents, particularly from American outlets, insist on catering to the woke sensibilities of their domestic audience by conveying only one side of the story, however narrowly espoused across France? This latest episode isn’t really a debate in itself but an attempt to give our English-speaking audience what hasn’t been aff...2020-12-111h 07
Last WordJuliette Greco, Bob Gore, Dame Georgina Mace, Jiri MenzelPictured: Juliette GrecoJulian Worricker on the French singer and actor, Juliette Greco, who rose to fame on the famous Left Bank in Paris after the war....Bob Gore who revolutionised outdoor clothing with his invention of the waterproof fabric, Gore-Tex....The ecologist Dame Georgina Mace, who changed the way threatened species were classified and reshaped worldwide conservation policies....And the Czech director, Jiri Menzel, who won an Oscar for his 1966 film 'Closely Observed Trains'.Interviewed guest: Agnes Poirier
Interviewed guest: David Cole
Interviewed guest: Professor Kate Jones
Interviewed...2020-10-0227 min
The Earful Tower: ParisThe Notre Dame: Past, present, and futureThe Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire on April 15 2019. So - where are we now? Well, French author Agnes Poirier has just written a book on the topic called "Notre Dame: The Soul of France" so I sat down to chat about the cathedral's past and present. This episode also features the voice of Ariel Weil, the mayor of Paris Centre, to talk about the future of the cathedral. A few links that are relevant: Find Agnes's book here and my Book Club here. Meanwhile, Ariel Weil was als...2020-08-0348 minLast WordSir Ian Holm, Jean Kennedy Smith, Felicity Bryan MBE, Lily LianPictured: Sir Ian HolmMatthew Bannister on
Sir Ian Holm, the respected actor best known for playing Bilbo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings films and for his interpretation of Shakespeare and Pinter.
Jean Kennedy Smith, the last survivor of nine children of Joseph Kennedy. She was US ambassador to Dublin at a significant time in the Northern Ireland peace process.
Felicity Bryan the literary agent who steered the careers of many leading writers, including James Naughtie who pays tribute.
And Lily Lian, thought to be the last traditional Parisian street singer.
Interviewed guest: Steven Jacobi
...2020-06-2627 min
Start the WeekCrisis in Europe from Notre-Dame to coronavirusA year ago French people looked on with horror as the great Notre-Dame went up in flames. The journalist Agnès Poirier tells Andrew Marr that the cathedral with its 800 year history represents the soul of the nation. Even before the fire was out President Macron was promising that it would be rebuilt. But in Notre-Dame: The Soul of France, Poirier recounts how its current reconstruction has been mired in controversy – political, social, artistic and religious. Poirier also looks at how the French government and people have reacted to the coronavirus pandemic.In Hungary, Viktor Orban’s gover...2020-04-2028 min
Spotlight on FranceSpotlight on France - Podcast: French flour shortages, coronavirus in the banlieue, Notre Dame in lockdownWhere has all the flour gone? The French appear to have taken to baking during the Covid-19 lockdown, upsetting supply chains. Also, how the pandemic has highlighted inequalities in French healthcare. And reflecting on Notre Dame, a year after the fire.
French people are starting to bake, a lot - unheard of in a country which counts a boulangerie in every town and on nearly every street corner in big cities. But as the coronavirus makes people wary of buying bread they are buying flour, instead, to make their own. We look at how confinement measures have disrupted...2020-04-1624 minLast WordAlbert Uderzo, Valerie Pettit OBE, Reverend Joseph Lowery, Julie FelixPictured: Albert UderzoMatthew Bannister onValerie Pettit OBE, the senior MI6 officer in charge of the daring operation to get Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky out of Russia after his cover was blown.Albert Uderzo – the French cartoonist who created Asterix the Gaul.Reverend Joseph Lowery – the leading American civil rights activist who worked alongside Martin Luther King in the campaign for black equality.Julie Felix – the American-born singer who became known as the first lady of British folk.Interviewed guest: Ben Macintyre
Interviewed guest: Agnes Poirie...2020-04-0628 min
Get Hooked On Into A Inspiring Full Audiobook While Cooking.Notre-Dame: the Soul of France by Agnès PoirierPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/420008to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Notre-Dame: the Soul of France
Author: Agnès Poirier
Narrator: Jilly Bond
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Release date: April 2, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
The profound emotion felt around the world upon seeing images of Notre-Dame in flames opens up a series of questions: Why was everyone so deeply moved? Why does Notre-Dame so clearly crystallise what our civilisation is about? What makes ‘Our Lady of Paris' the soul of a nation and a symbol of human achievement? What is it that spe...2020-04-025h 55
Access Top-Rated Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsNotre-Dame: the Soul of France by Agnès PoirierPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/420008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Notre-Dame: the Soul of France Author: Agnès Poirier Narrator: Jilly Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: April 2, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The profound emotion felt around the world upon seeing images of Notre-Dame in flames opens up a series of questions: Why was everyone so deeply moved? Why does Notre-Dame so clearly crystallise what our civilisation is about? What makes ‘Our Lady of Paris' the soul of a nation and a symbol of human achievement? What is it tha...2020-04-0203 minAccess Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsNotre-Dame: the Soul of France by Agnès PoirierPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/420008to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Notre-Dame: the Soul of France
Author: Agnès Poirier
Narrator: Jilly Bond
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Release date: April 2, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
The profound emotion felt around the world upon seeing images of Notre-Dame in flames opens up a series of questions: Why was everyone so deeply moved? Why does Notre-Dame so clearly crystallise what our civilisation is about? What makes ‘Our Lady of Paris' the soul of a nation and a symbol of human achievement? What is it that spe...2020-04-025h 55Last WordJacques Chirac, Sir Michael Edwardes, Cokie Roberts, Pat Cavendish O’NeillPictured: Jacques ChiracJulian Worricker on:Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris for eighteen years, who served twice as French Prime Minister and twice as French president....The man who took on the toughest of managerial assignments - running British Leyland in the late 1970s - Sir Michael Edwardes....US television journalist and presenter, Cokie Roberts, credited with changing the role of women in the newsroom....Pat Cavendish O'Neill, the racehorse trainer and breeder, who built up a menagerie of rescue animals in Kenya and South Africa.Interviewed...2019-09-2728 min
Expand Your Mind With Our Engaging Free AudiobookLeft Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50 Audiobook by Agnes PoirierListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 393165
Title: Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50
Author: Agnes Poirier
Narrator: Christa Lewis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13:51:32
Language: English
Release date: 08-27-19
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Literary, Europe, Arts & Entertainment
Summary:
In this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and ultimately triumphant eras, Agnes Poirier unspools the stories of the poets, writers, painters, and philosophers whose lives collided to extraordinary effect between 1940 and 1950. She gives us the human drama behind some of the most...2019-08-271h 51
Deep Background with Noah FeldmanA Hidden Reason Behind France's "Yellow Vest" ProtestsFor Bastille Day, an interview with French journalist Agnes C. Poirier about the causes of the "Yellow Vest" protests which rocked the country last fall. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2019-07-1429 min
RADIO FESTIVAL - The Cannes ReviewYoung Ahmed and Frankie - 21st May 2019Agnes C.Poirier, Peter Bradshaw and Clare Stewart discuss Dardenne's "Young Ahmed" and Sachs' "Frankie" around Jason Solomons 2019-05-2100 min
RADIO FESTIVAL - Sous les marchesYoung Ahmed and Frankie - 21st May 2019Agnes C.Poirier, Peter Bradshaw and Clare Stewart discuss Dardenne's "Young Ahmed" and Sachs' "Frankie" around Jason Solomons Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.2019-05-211h 03
The Media ShowHow to combat fake news?The Culture Select Committee’s final report into fake news and disinformation has heavily criticised the practices of tech firms like Facebook. Amol Rajan discusses its findings with Labour MP and member of the the Select Committee, Ian Lucas, Dex Torricke-Barton, former executive at both Google and Facebook and Stephen Lepitak, Editor of the tech and marketing website The Drum. Plus several senior French journalists have been suspended for allegedly coordinating online harassment of female journalists through a private Facebook group. We talk to the editor of La Liberation and French journalist Agnes Poirier. Producer...2019-02-2028 min
So French!S04E08 - Winter Writers: Agnès Poirier in Café de FloreWe are having a coffee with author Agnès Poirier in the fancy Café de Flore. She is a journalist and writer of “Left Bank”, a lively account of the intellectual and artistic life in post-war Paris.2018-12-2935 min
Uncommon Sense – Triple R FMInterview with Agnès Poirier, Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-50Parisian author and journalist Agnès Poirier discussed her book, 'Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50,' which explores the intellectual, literary and cultural flourishing during Nazi-occupied Paris and after liberation. Amy and Agnès discuss this and the many connections and relationships that were essential to such an intense and productive period. Notable intellectuals and cultural thinkers include, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Robert Wright, Janet Flanner, Arthur Koestler, Jacques Jaujard, Jean Paulhan and many more. Broadcast on December 4 2018.2018-12-061h 00
Uncommon SenseUncommon Sense - 4 December 2018 - Agnes PoirierParisian author and journalist Agnès Poirier discussed her book, Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940–50, which explores the intellectual, literary and cultural flourishing during Nazi-occupied Paris and after liberation. Amy and Agnès discuss this and the many connections and relationships, sexual and otherwise, that were essential to such an intense and productive period. Notable intellectuals and cultural thinkers include, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Robert Wright, Janet Flanner, Arthur Koestler, Jacques Jaujard, Jean Paulhan, and many more.2018-12-041h 00
Reasons Revisited60. GEOFF, GEOFF, GEOFF...OUT OUT OUT: the power of protestHello! It’s 50 years since 1968, next year it will be 200 since the Peterloo massacre, so we are discussing the power of political protest, when they work and what it all means for today. French journalist Agnes Poirier chronicles ‘68 and after for us and Guardian columnist John Harris and American author Sarah Jaffe join us to talk about the past, present and future of political protest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2018-11-1259 minStart the Week1968: Radicals and RiotsFifty years after radicals took to the streets of Paris and stormed campuses across the Western World, Andrew Marr unpicks the legacy of 1968.Historian Richard Vinen finds waves of protest across the western world in his book The Long '68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies. Some movements were genuinely revolutionary, such as the ten million French workers whose strike nearly toppled the government. But on American university campuses and in British art schools, protests took the forms of civil rights marches and feminist collectives, whose narratives changed the way we think today.In Paris, left-wing...2018-04-1642 min
Late Night Woman's Hour#metoo - where are we at?Lauren's guests are Zoe Strimpel, Kit Davis, Agnes Poirier and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett.2018-02-2353 min
The Europeans | European news, politics and cultureJan 16: Translating Trump, Defending DeneuveYour favourite plucky Parisian reporter and glamorous Amsterdam opera singer are BACK. Episode 6 is about two people with bouffant hair but little else in common: Donald Trump and Catherine Deneuve. We’ve got a great interview with the voice of Trump on German television, Franz Kubaczyk, and his fellow interpreter Leonie Wagener about the perils of translating the most unpredictable president in US history. And the French writer Agnès Poirier is on the line to discuss Deneuve’s controversial letter criticizing the #MeToo movement and what may have been lost in translation. Plus: fantastic plastic news and an unwelcome flash...2018-01-1631 min
Making History1968Tom Holland is joined by Dr Alice Taylor from King's College in London and the historian of pop culture, Travis Elborough. Helen Castor charts the course of the Prague Spring, that period of liberalisation in Czechoslovakia brought in when Alexander Dubcek became leader in January 1968. She hears from those who were there and those who study that period now and asks whether people had any inkling what an extraordinary year it would be.Alice Taylor introduces a new project which will celebrate the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath in 2020. She explains how fact...2018-01-0228 min
Seriously...A Brief History of LustDoes what makes the heart beat faster really make the world go round? Oh yes. Welcome to a new history of lust presented by the American satirist Joe Queenan. From Helen and Paris of Troy to Bill and Monica via Rasputin, Edwina Currie and John Major, this is a tale of life as a bunga bunga bacchanal.
With contributions from historian Suzannah Lipscomb, classicist Edith Hall, plus Agnes Poirier, Joan Bakewell (of course), Caitlin Moran and Richard Herring on Rasputin; a specially composed new poem on lust from Elvis McGonagall; and music from Prince, T Rex, Bessie Smith and...2017-02-2158 min
Front Row: Archive 2012Untouchable review, Louise Wener interview, Ryszard Kapuscinski biographyWith Kirsty Lang. Untouchable, a French comedy film about a wealthy disabled man and his young impoverished carer, has proved an unlikely hit across Europe, even taking more than Avatar in some countries. Critic Agnes Poirier explains its unexpected popularity and delivers her verdict.Shout To The Top is a new music drama coming to BBC Radio 2, about a young girl band starting out in the 1980s. Writers Roy Boulter, drummer of The Farm, and Louise Wener, former singer with the Britpop band Sleeper, discuss how they set about creating radio drama and how far...2012-09-2128 min
Front Row: Archive 2011Yo-Yo Ma, Emma Donoghue, Soviet ArchitectureWith Kirsty Lang.Emma Donoghue is the bestselling author of Room, the Booker-nominated novel inspired by the real life Josef Fritzl case. Her latest book is The Sealed Letter, a historical romp that deals with a scandalous 19th Century divorce case. She talks to Kirsty about why she always avoids taking sides among her characters.Music critic Caspar Llewellyn Smith reviews a selection of new albums - including Coldplay's recent Mylo Xyloto; Tom Waits' long-awaited Bad As Me; and Parisienne singer Camille's bilingual Ilo Veyou. Johnny Hallyday has announced he will play his...2011-10-2828 min
London WalksCity Guides podcast: Paris 1968 walking tourAgnes Poirier marks the anniversary of the 1968 student protests in Paris with this podcast tour2008-04-151h 13