The Sound Kitchen

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about the Golden Globe Awards. There’s the listener mailbag and your fellow listener’s voices, some great music, and of course … the quiz. Just click on the arrow in the photo and enjoy!

Hello everyone!

Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday at 6:15, 7:15, 14:45 and 16:45 universal time. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and tune in every Saturday.

For our DX enthusiast friends: Our shortwave frequency is 9675 kHz on the 31m band, from 06.00 to 07.00 UT every day. We’ve had reception reports from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US, and although the frequency is “aimed” (or however that works) towards the African continent, give it a try. You never know … and be sure and send us your reception reports. Maybe we can get more time, which would be wonderful.

You can also hear our programs on WRMI (http://www.wrmi.net/) and WRN (http://www.wrn.org/listeners/). These broadcasters diffuse our programs out of the goodness of their hearts, but unless you tell us how you heard us, we have no way of knowing … so do write and tell us how you listen to us.

A hearty welcome to two new official RFI Listeners Clubs: the RFI Sungat Listeners Club with Malik Allah Bachaya Khokhar as president, in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan (the fourth club in that city! Thanks Muzaffargarh!), and the RFI Peace Fan Club in Bogra, Bangladesh. Dr Shahinur Alam is the president.

If you would like to create an official RFI club, or transform your existing listeners club into an RFI club, click on the link at the bottom of this page for information on how to get started.

This week’s quiz: On 14 January, I asked you to send in the names of two 2017 Golden Globe Awards winners: “Best Actress in a Drama” and “Best Foreign Film”.

The answer is: The French actress Isabelle Huppert. The name of the film is Elle, which is the film Huppert starred in.

The winners are: RFI Listeners Club members Ralf Urbanczyk from Eisleben, Germany and Rajesh Chandwani, from Haryana, India; Mrs Shahanaz Begum from Bogra, Bangladesh; Jean Forget from Attleboro, Massachusetts, and Mubashir Hussain Asher, president of the RFI Listeners Club in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan.

Congratulations winners!

This week’s question ... you'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 17 April to enter this week's quiz. The winners will be announced on the 22 April program. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

Send your answers to:

or

Susan Owensby

RFI – The Sound Kitchen

80, rue Camille Desmoulins

92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

France

or

By text … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile phone. Dial your country’s international access code, or “ + ”, then 33 6 31 12 96 82. Don’t forget to include your mailing address in your text – and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

To find out how you can win an RFI wireless computer mouse click here

To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club click here

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about the giant panda. There’s the listener mailbag, some great music, and of course … the quiz. Just click on the arrow in the photo and enjoy!

Hello everyone!

Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday at 6:15, 7:15, 14:45 and 16:45 universal time. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and tune in every Saturday.

For our DX enthusiast friends: Our shortwave frequency is 9675 kHz on the 31m band, from 06.00 to 07.00 UT every day. We’ve had reception reports from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US, and although the frequency is “aimed” (or however that works) towards the African continent, give it a try. You never know … and be sure and send us your reception reports. Maybe we can get more time, which would be wonderful.

You can also hear our programs on WRMI (http://www.wrmi.net/) and WRN (http://www.wrn.org/listeners/). These broadcasters diffuse our programs out of the goodness of their hearts, but unless you tell us how you heard us, we have no way of knowing … so do write and tell us how you listen to us.

A hearty welcome to two new official RFI Listeners Clubs: the RFI Sungat Listeners Club with Malik Allah Bachaya Khokhar as president, in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan (the fourth club in that city! Thanks Muzaffargarh!), and the RFI Peace Fan Club in Bogra, Bangladesh. Dr Shahinur Alam is the president.

If you would like to create an official RFI club, or transform your existing listeners club into an RFI club, click on the link at the bottom of this page for information on how to get started.

This week’s quiz: On 7 January, I asked you about a giant panda who had died just a few days before at a conservation center in China’s Sichuan Province. The big old guy was the world’s oldest male giant panda in captivity, and he was especially famous for his virility – he has more than 130 descendants. This is quite an accomplishment, as female giant pandas are only fertile for two or three days a year. His offspring and their cubs account for nearly a quarter of the more than 420 captive pandas alive worldwide today.

You were to write in with his name, and how old he was when he died.

The answer is: Pan Pan, which means "hope" or "expectation" in Chinese. He was 31 years old, which is the equivalent to about 100 human years.

The Chinese government has been so successful at preserving the natural habitats of the giant panda that last September the International Union for the Conservation of Nature removed pandas from its “endangered” list.

The group now lists giant pandas as “vulnerable”, but China’s State Forestry Administration told The Associated Press that “giant pandas could still suffer irreversible loss” if conservation efforts were relaxed. China wants giant pandas to remain on the “endangered” list.

The winners are: Adita Prithika from Tamil Nadu State, India; Royse Cramton from Illinois, U-S; Saleem Akhtar Chadhar, the president of the RFI Seven Stars Listeners Club in Chiniot District, Pakistan; Morakami San of the Karatoa Radio Listeners Club in Sirajganj, Bangladesh, and RFI Listeners Club member Rachid Dahmani, from M'sila, Algeria.

Congratulations winners!

This week’s question ... you'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 10 April to enter this week's quiz. The winners will be announced on the 15 April program. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

Send your answers to:

or

Susan Owensby

RFI – The Sound Kitchen

80, rue Camille Desmoulins

92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

France

or

By text … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile phone. Dial your country’s international access code, or “ + ”, then 33 6 31 12 96 82. Don’t forget to include your mailing address in your text – and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

To find out how you can win an RFI wireless computer mouse click here

To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club click here

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about Hannukah. There’s musings on weather and flowers (why not?), some great music, and of course … the quiz. Just click on the arrow in the photo and enjoy!

Hello everyone!

Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday at 6:15, 7:15, 14:45 and 16:45 universal time. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and tune in every Saturday.

For our DX enthusiast friends: Our shortwave frequency is 9675 kHz on the 31m band, from 06.00 to 07.00 UT every day. We’ve had reception reports from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sierra Leone, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US, and although the frequency is “aimed” (or however that works) towards the African continent, give it a try. You never know … and be sure and send us your reception reports. Maybe we can get more time, which would be wonderful.

You can also hear our programs on WRMI (http://www.wrmi.net/) and WRN (http://www.wrn.org/listeners/). These broadcasters diffuse our programs out of the goodness of their hearts, but unless you tell us how you heard us, we have no way of knowing … so do write and tell us how you listen to us.

A hearty welcome to two new official RFI Listeners Clubs: the RFI Sungat Listeners Club with Malik Allah Bachaya Khokhar as president, in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan (the fourth club in that city! Thanks Muzaffargarh!), and the RFI Peace Fan Club in Bogra, Bangladesh. Dr Shahinur Alam is the president.

If you would like to create an official RFI club, or transform your existing listeners club into an RFI club, click on the link at the bottom of this page for information on how to get started.

This week’s quiz: On 31 December I asked you a question about the Jewish festival Hanukkah: you were to write in and tell me how many days and nights Hanukkah (or the Festival of Lights) is celebrated, and what it is about.

The answer is: Hannukah, which is a joyous festival for the Jewish community, runs eight days and nights. Every night the family gathers and lights a candle on the menorah ( a nine branched candelabrum – the highest candle, the ninth candle, is always lit) so by the last night all the candles are lit. The family recites or sings traditional blessings as they light the candles, and then the fun begins. Presents - every night! And dreidel games (a dreidel is a top), and wonderful special foods, mainly oily, because the Hannukah festival celebrates a miracle of oil.

The Jewish Maccabees rebelled and defeated the forces of Antiochus IV – the Greek king of the Seleucid Empire (Antiochus IV lived from 175 BCE until 164 BCE, to give you an idea of the time-line) - who was ruling over Judea. When the Maccabees won the rebellion and re-gained their Holy Temple, they discovered that almost all of the ritual olive oil had been profaned - oil which is needed to keep the menorah burning at all times in the Temple. They found only a single container of oil that was still sealed by the High Priest, and there was only enough oil to keep the menorah in the Temple lit for a single day. They used that oil, but the menorah miraculously burned for eight days - which is the time it took to have new oil pressed and made ready.

So the answer is: Hannukah lasts eight days and eight nights, and celebrates the re-dedication of the Holy Temple after the defeat of the Seleucid Empire, when a one-day supply of ritual olive oil burned for eight days.

The winners are: RFI Listeners Club member Jean-Maurice Devault from Montreal, Canada; Shehla Shahzad from the RFI Pak France International Listeners Club in Sahiwal, Pakistan; Abdikadir Elmi from Nairobi, Kenya; Tasneem Binte Saleh from Nilphamari, Bangladesh, and Sunilbaran Das, the president of the RFI Fan Club in Nadia, India.

Congratulations winners!

This week’s question ... you'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 3 April to enter this week's quiz. The winners will be announced on the 8 April program. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

Send your answers to:

or

Susan Owensby

RFI – The Sound Kitchen

80, rue Camille Desmoulins

92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

France

or

By text … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile phone. Dial your country’s international access code, or “ + ”, then 33 6 31 12 96 82. Don’t forget to include your mailing address in your text – and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

To find out how you can win an RFI wireless computer mouse click here

To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club click here

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about RFI’s birthday. There’s news from RFI Clubs, your letters, some great music, and of course, the quiz. Just click on the arrow in the photo and enjoy!

Hello everyone!

Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday at 6:15, 7:15, 14:45 and 16:45 universal time. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and tune in every Saturday.

For our DX enthusiast friends: Our shortwave frequency is 9675 kHz on the 31m band, from 06.00 to 07.00 UT every day. We’ve had reception reports from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sierra Leone, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US, and although the frequency is “aimed” (or however that works) towards the African continent, give it a try. You never know … and be sure and send us your reception reports. Maybe we can get more time, which would be wonderful.

You can also hear our programs on WRMI (http://www.wrmi.net/) and WRN (http://www.wrn.org/listeners/). These broadcasters diffuse our programs out of the goodness of their hearts, but unless you tell us how you heard us, we have no way of knowing … so do write and tell us how you listen to us.

A hearty welcome to four new official RFI Listeners Clubs! Three are in India, and two of those are in Murshidibad: the RFI Metali Students Club with Shivendu Paul as president and the RFI Women’s Club, Priyanka Paul, president. In Assam, there’s the RFI Listeners Club of Jorhat with Prithwiraj Purkayastha at the helm, and in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan, there’s the RFI Lovers Club with Mubashir Bukhari as president. Welcome!

If you would like to create an official RFI club, or transform your existing listeners club into an RFI club, click on the link at the bottom of this page for information on how to get started.

This week’s quiz: on 24 December, I gave you a little Christmas present – a very easy question. You were to write in with the year RFI was created.

The answer is: 1975. RFI was created in 1975 as part of the Radio France group by the French government, to replace the Poste Colonial, which was created in 1931. There were a couple of other incarnations over the years, but RFI as you know it today saw the light of day in 1975. We became independent of Radio France in 1986, and now, with our arabaphone radio Monte Carlo Doualiya and the TV station France 24, we are a part of France Medias Monde.

The winners are: Two from Bangladesh: Raihan Ali - a member of the Nilshagor RFI Fan Club in Nilphamari - and Mr Jibon, a member of the RFI Fan Club in Naogaon. There’s RFI Club member Dr Bashirideen Koray from Accra, Ghana; Ferhat Bezazel, the president of Club RFI in West Skikda, Algeria and Tiahe Nchango Hermann from Bamenda, Cameroon.

Congratulations winners!

This week’s question ... you'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 27 March to enter this week's quiz. The winners will be announced on the 1 April program. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

Send your answers to:

or

Susan Owensby

RFI – The Sound Kitchen

80, rue Camille Desmoulins

92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

France

or

By text … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile phone. Dial your country’s international access code, or “ + ”, then 33 6 31 12 96 82. Don’t forget to include your mailing address in your text – and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

To find out how you can win an RFI wireless computer mouse click here

To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club click here

Your Sound Kitchen host is home resting up after knee surgery. Susan will be back in the kitchen 25 February with the answer to the question about RFI's birthday. Talk to you then!

Hello everyone!

Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday at 6:15, 7:15, 14:45 and 16:45 universal time. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and tune in every Saturday.

For our DX enthusiast friends: Our shortwave frequency is 9675 kHz on the 31m band, from 06.00 to 07.00 UT every day. We’ve had reception reports from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sierra Leone, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US, and although the frequency is “aimed” (or however that works) towards the African continent, give it a try. You never know … and be sure and send us your reception reports. Maybe we can get more time, which would be wonderful.

You can also hear our programs on WRMI (http://www.wrmi.net/) and WRN (http://www.wrn.org/listeners/). These broadcasters diffuse our programs out of the goodness of their hearts, but unless you tell us how you heard us, we have no way of knowing … so do write and tell us how you listen to us.

A hearty welcome to four new official RFI Listeners Clubs! Three are in India, and two of those are in Murshidibad: the RFI Metali Students Club with Shivendu Paul as president and the RFI Women’s Club, Priyanka Paul, president. In Assam, there’s the RFI Listeners Club of Jorhat with Prithwiraj Purkayastha at the helm, and in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan, there’s the RFI Lovers Club with Mubashir Bukhari as president. Welcome!

If you would like to create an official RFI club, or transform your existing listeners club into an RFI club, click on the link at the bottom of this page for information on how to get started.

This week’s quiz:

The answer is:

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Congratulations winners!

This week’s question:

Send your answers to:

or

Susan Owensby

RFI – The Sound Kitchen

80, rue Camille Desmoulins

92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

France

or

By text … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile phone. Dial your country’s international access code, or “ + ”, then 33 6 31 12 96 82. Don’t forget to include your mailing address in your text – and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

To find out how you can win an RFI wireless computer mouse click here

To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club click here

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear a flashback show – a program that aired in August 2013. Listener AKM Nuruzzaman from Rajshahi, Bangladesh reads his Community Hero essay, and shares his favourite music with you. Just click on the arrow in the photo and enjoy!

Hello everyone!

Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday at 6:15, 7:15, 14:45 and 16:45 universal time. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and tune in every Saturday.

For our DX enthusiast friends: Our shortwave frequency is 9675 kHz on the 31m band, from 06.00 to 07.00 UT every day. We’ve had reception reports from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sierra Leone, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US, and although the frequency is “aimed” (or however that works) towards the African continent, give it a try. You never know … and be sure and send us your reception reports. Maybe we can get more time, which would be wonderful.

You can also hear our programs on WRMI (http://www.wrmi.net/) and WRN (http://www.wrn.org/listeners/). These broadcasters diffuse our programs out of the goodness of their hearts, but unless you tell us how you heard us, we have no way of knowing … so do write and tell us how you listen to us.

A hearty welcome to four new official RFI Listeners Clubs! Three are in India, and two of those are in Murshidibad: the RFI Metali Students Club with Shivendu Paul as president and the RFI Women’s Club, Priyanka Paul, president. In Assam, there’s the RFI Listeners Club of Jorhat with Prithwiraj Purkayastha at the helm, and in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan, there’s the RFI Lovers Club with Mubashir Bukhari as president. Welcome!

If you would like to create an official RFI club, or transform your existing listeners club into an RFI club, click on the link at the bottom of this page for information on how to get started.

This week’s quiz: the quiz will be back next week, 4 February.

To find out how you can win an RFI wireless computer mouse click here

To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club click here

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about your five favourite words in English. There’s a mini French history lesson, some new RFI Clubs to welcome, great music, and of course … the quiz. Just click on the arrow in the photo and enjoy!

Hello everyone!

Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday at 6:15, 7:15, 14:45 and 16:45 universal time. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and tune in every Saturday.

For our DX enthusiast friends: Our shortwave frequency is 9675 kHz on the 31m band, from 06.00 to 07.00 UT every day. We’ve had reception reports from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sierra Leone, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US, and although the frequency is “aimed” (or however that works) towards the African continent, give it a try. You never know … and be sure and send us your reception reports. Maybe we can get more time, which would be wonderful.

You can also hear our programs on WRMI (http://www.wrmi.net/) and WRN (http://www.wrn.org/listeners/). These broadcasters diffuse our programs out of the goodness of their hearts, but unless you tell us how you heard us, we have no way of knowing … so do write and tell us how you listen to us.

A hearty welcome to four new official RFI Listeners Clubs! Three are in India, and two of those are in Murshidibad: the RFI Metali Students Club with Shivendu Paul as president and the RFI Women’s Club, Priyanka Paul, president. In Assam, there’s the RFI Listeners Club of Jorhat with Prithwiraj Purkayastha at the helm, and in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan, there’s the RFI Lovers Club with Mubashir Bukhari as president. Welcome!

If you would like to create an official RFI club, or transform your existing listeners club into an RFI club, click on the link at the bottom of this page for information on how to get started.

This week’s quiz: On 17 December, I asked you a very different kind of question: you were to send me your five favourite words in English. They didn’t have to be hard or unusual words, or have special meaning - just words you like the sound of. After all, as I told you, my favorite word in French is the word for sidewalk: “trottoir”. I think it is funny and I love to say it. Anyway, as there is no right answer for the question, I put all your responses in a hat and pulled out five. And here are the lucky winners:

• Sanusi Isah Dankaba from Nasarawa State, Nigeria, with “forklift”, “cheesy”, “literally”, “humble bee”, and “lovely”.

N.B. “Humble bee” is the old word for “bumble bee” – it changed from “humble” to “bumble” in the early 20th century. Darwin, for example, wrote about the “humble” bee, not the “bumble” bee.

• A. K. M. Nuruzzaman, the president of the RFI Amour Fan Club in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, with “brood”, “chatoyant”, “comely”, “efflorescence” and “halcyon”;

• RFI Club member Mohammad Akhsan from Dhaka, Bangladesh, with “wonder”, “daughter”, “weather”, “stating” and “potato”;

• Saidul Islam, a member of the Nilshagor RFI Fan Club in Nilphamari, Bangladesh, with “evening”, “window”, “sea”, “drink” and “tree”;

• Mrs C O Agboola from Ekiti State, Nigeria, with “reconciliation”, “prestige”, ”love”, “integrity” and “reputation”.

Congratulations winners!

This week’s question ... you'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 27 February to enter this week's quiz. The winners will be announced on the 3 March program. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

Send your answers to:

or

Susan Owensby

RFI – The Sound Kitchen

80, rue Camille Desmoulins

92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

France

or

By text … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile phone. Dial your country’s international access code, or “ + ”, then 33 6 31 12 96 82. Don’t forget to include your mailing address in your text – and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

To find out how you can win an RFI wireless computer mouse click here

To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club click here

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about the presidential polls in The Gambia. There’s an invitation to “pay it forward”, some great music, and of course … the quiz. Just click on the arrow in the photo and enjoy!

Hello everyone!

Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday at 6:15, 7:15, 14:45 and 16:45 universal time. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and tune in every Saturday.

For our DX enthusiast friends: Our shortwave frequency is 9675 kHz on the 31m band, from 06.00 to 07.00 UT every day. We’ve had reception reports from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sierra Leone, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US, and although the frequency is “aimed” (or however that works) towards the African continent, give it a try. You never know … and be sure and send us your reception reports. Maybe we can get more time, which would be wonderful.

You can also hear our programs on WRMI (http://www.wrmi.net/) and WRN (http://www.wrn.org/listeners/). These broadcasters diffuse our programs out of the goodness of their hearts, but unless you tell us how you heard us, we have no way of knowing … so do write and tell us how you listen to us.

A hearty welcome to three new RFI Listeners Club members! Kristopher Arens of Creswell, Oregon in the US, Abdikadir Elmi from Nairobi, Kenya, and Rachid Dahmani from M'sila, Algeria. Welcome gentlemen!

This week’s quiz: On 10 December, I asked you a question about the presidential polls in The Gambia, where the country’s voters ousted their strongman president of 22 years - a man who took control of the country in a 1994 military coup. You were to send in the name of The Gambia’s president- elect, and the name of the outgoing president.

The answer is: A lot has changed since I asked you that question: initially, the incumbent president conceded defeat. A week later, he changed his mind, and decided to contest the election results; security forces took over the headquarters of the Independent Electoral Commission shortly thereafter, and the head of the Electoral Commission fled the country. Three private radio stations have been taken off air, the West African regional bloc, Ecowas, has been in conference with the incumbent president urging him to step down …it’s a mess. No telling what will happen next.

But the correct answer to my question when I asked it is: the president – elect is Adama Barrow of the United Democratic Party (he won 43.29 percent of the vote) and the incumbent is Yahya Jammeh of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction party – a party which was formed two years after Jammeh’s rise to power from the 1994 military coup d’état. Jammeh won 39.64 percent of the votes.

The winners are: Three from The Gambia: Fansu Bolong Janneh from Banjul, and Ramatouli Bah and William Joiner, both from Serrekunda. Also on the list of winners this week: Muhammad Shamim, the president of the RFI Golden Eagles Club in Keralam, India, and Zenon Teles, an RFI Listeners Club member, and the president of the Christian- Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Association of Listening DX-ers in Goa, India.

Congratulations winners!

This week’s question ... you'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 20 February to enter this week's quiz. The winners will be announced on the 25 February program. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

Send your answers to:

or

Susan Owensby

RFI – The Sound Kitchen

80, rue Camille Desmoulins

92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

France

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By text … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile phone. Dial your country’s international access code, or “ + ”, then 33 6 31 12 96 82. Don’t forget to include your mailing address in your text – and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

To find out how you can win an RFI wireless computer mouse click here

To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club click here

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about Aswat Nissa in Tunisia. There’s an invitation to "disconnect" from the digital world, some great music, and of course … the quiz. Just click on the arrow in the photo and enjoy!

Hello everyone!

Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday at 6:15, 7:15, 14:45 and 16:45 universal time. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and tune in every Saturday.

For our DX enthusiast friends: Our shortwave frequency is 9675 kHz on the 31m band, from 06.00 to 07.00 UT every day. We’ve had reception reports from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sierra Leone, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US, and although the frequency is “aimed” (or however that works) towards the African continent, give it a try. You never know … and be sure and send us your reception reports. Maybe we can get more time, which would be wonderful.

You can also hear our programs on WRMI (http://www.wrmi.net/) and WRN (http://www.wrn.org/listeners/). These broadcasters diffuse our programs out of the goodness of their hearts, but unless you tell us how you heard us, we have no way of knowing … so do write and tell us how you listen to us.

A hearty welcome to three new RFI Listeners Club members! Kristopher Arens of Creswell, Oregon in the US, Abdikadir Elmi from Nairobi, Kenya, and Rachid Dahmani from M'sila, Algeria. Welcome gentlemen!

This week’s quiz: On 3 December, I asked you a question about a Tunisian organization called Aswat Nissa, which you heard on our 25 November International Report. Aswat Nissa trains women in political skills – debating, writing budgets, how to canvass for votes – through a series of year-long, once a month workshops. In the report, journalist Don Duncan tells us how many women are enrolled in this year’s workshops, and that was the question: how many women are enrolled in this year’s Aswat Nissa workshops in Tunis?

The answer is: 40. There are 40 women currently training at Aswat Nissa.

The winners are: Shahzad Shabbir, the president of the RFI Pak France International Listeners Club in Sahiwal, Pakistan, and RFI Listeners Club members Ralf Urbanczyk from Eisleben, Germany, and P Sivashanmugham from Chennai, India. From Dhaka, Bangladesh, Mofizur Rahman Lalin is on the list of lucky winners this week, as is Sanusi Isah Dankaba from Keffi in Nasarawa State, Nigeria.

Congratulations winners!

This week’s question ... you'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 13 February to enter this week's quiz. The winners will be announced on the 18 February program. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

Send your answers to:

or

Susan Owensby

RFI – The Sound Kitchen

80, rue Camille Desmoulins

92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

France

or

By text … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile phone. Dial your country’s international access code, or “ + ”, then 33 6 31 12 96 82. Don’t forget to include your mailing address in your text – and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

To find out how you can win an RFI wireless computer mouse click here

To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club click here

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about Les Républicains' primary polls. There’s a special draw for your New Year’s Resolutions, some great holiday music, and of course … the quiz. Just click on the arrow in the photo and enjoy!

Hello everyone!

Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday at 6:15, 7:15, 14:45 and 16:45 universal time. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and tune in every Saturday.

For our DX enthusiast friends: Our shortwave frequency is 9675 kHz on the 31m band, from 06.00 to 07.00 UT every day. We’ve had reception reports from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sierra Leone, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US, and although the frequency is “aimed” (or however that works) towards the African continent, give it a try. You never know … and be sure and send us your reception reports. Maybe we can get more time, which would be wonderful.

You can also hear our programs on WRMI (http://www.wrmi.net/) and WRN (http://www.wrn.org/listeners/). These broadcasters diffuse our programs out of the goodness of their hearts, but unless you tell us how you heard us, we have no way of knowing … so do write and tell us how you listen to us.

A hearty welcome to three new RFI Listeners Club members! All three are from Ghana: both Dr. Bashirideen Koray and Professor Daniel Kwaku Mensah are from Accra, and John Taylor is from Kumasi. Welcome, gentlemen!

This week’s quiz: On 26 November, I asked you a question about French politics. That week, members of France’s conservative party Les Républicans (formerly the UMP) cast their votes to choose their candidate for the 2017 presidential polls. You were to write in with the names of the two candidates who won the most votes in that first round of voting and qualified to run for the second round on 27 November. You were also to note the percentage of votes each candidate won.

The answer is: François Fillion, with 44 percent, and Alain Juppé, with 28.5 percent. As you probably know, voters decided on François Fillion in the second round.

The winners are: Jobayada Aktar Jai, from the Nilshagor RFI Fan Club in Nilphamari, Bangladesh; Shehla Shahzad, from the RFI Pak France International Listener's Club in Sahiwal, Pakistan; Mahmuda Sultana Mitu from Sirajganj, Bangladesh; Rachid Dahmani from M'sila, Algeria, and Ebrima Jeen from Bakau, The Gambia.

Congratulations winners!

This week’s question ... you'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 6 February to enter this week's quiz. The winners will be announced on the 11 February program. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

Send your answers to:

or

Susan Owensby

RFI – The Sound Kitchen

80, rue Camille Desmoulins

92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

France

or

By text … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile phone. Dial your country’s international access code, or “ + ”, then 33 6 31 12 96 82. Don’t forget to include your mailing address in your text – and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

To find out how you can win an RFI wireless computer mouse click here

To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club click here