France has only had a new government for a couple of months and now it looks like it could lose it - just when it really needs one. We'll find out what's going on and what it will mean for the country and the crucial 2025 budget if the government falls.

We'll also explore how Paris has changed over the last 10 years under mayor Anne Hidalgo, who announced this week she won't run for a third term.

We'll also discuss how a mass rape trial in the south of France that has deeply shocked the country, could bring lasting change to French society and its laws.

And we'll finish by looking at the common grammar mistakes even the French make and whether we language learners really do need to remember whether a noun is masculine or feminine.

Host Ben McPartland is joined as usual by The Local France's editor Emma Pearson, journalist Gen Mansfield, politics expert John Lichfield as well as a special guest feminist journalist Megan Clement.

Extra reading

• OPINION: As court verdict looms, Le Pen now seems willing to bring down French government
• 'After Mazan': France unveils new measures to combat violence against women
• Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo announces she will not stand for third term
• Masculine or feminine: How to get the gender of French nouns (mostly) right
• 6 language mistakes that even French people make (including Macron)

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