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Below is a list of Toucanradio archives up to 2010.
More recent work can be found on RFI, by clicking here.
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General topics
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Gay parents in France (January 2010)
Same-sex couples push the edges of the law to form families
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Measuring the melting of the Alps (December 2009)
Scientists measure the effects of climate change in the French Alps, tourism officials prepare for warmer winters
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Buried alone (September 2009)
What happens when you die alone in Paris?
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Mushroom hunting (October 2008)
Looking for mushrooms in the forest near Paris
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Baking Christmas in August (August 2008)
In the heat of the summer, pastry chefs look ahead to the busy Christmas season
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Olympic torch trouble (April 2008)
A report on the protests around the torch coming through Paris
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Equal Opportunities? (December 2007)
How is France doing in its fight against hiring discrimination?
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Drinking Sunshine (December 2007)
The effects of climate change and global warming on French wine.
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Pet Cemetery (November 2007)
Our curious relationship with our pets, even when they die.
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One pair of skates, 24 hours (July 2007)
The famed 24 Heures du Mans car racetrack gets taken over by skaters.
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Coal, Nuclear, Wind (April 2007)
The past, present and future of energy production in France.
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Universal Jurisdiction (January 2007)
Congolese victims can take their Congolese torturers to court in France
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My Face Is Not Anonymous (December 2006)
Hiring discrimination and the anonymous CV in France
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Erased from Slovenia (November 2006)
18,000 Slovenians disappeared from official registries in 1992...
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An Invisible Problem (October 2006)
World hunger is a problem, even if you can't see it
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The Subway Challenge (August 2006)
A race through the New York City subway system.
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The Right to Organize (June 2006)
Three people get fired for trying to start unions.
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Keeping the French, One Book at a Time (April 2006)
How do you keep your culture in a globalized world? Read.
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Sugar Shack (March 2006)
Sugaring is a very fun project... you should try it!
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Counting the Tip of the Iceberg (Feb. 2006)
How do we know how many people are homeless?
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A Poem Lovely as a Tree (December 2005)
An exploration of Joyce Kilmer's most famous poem, 'Trees'.
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On the Tip of Aggravated (February 2005)
Homeless students share their experiences and frustrations of being in school while moving from shelter to shelter.
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Learning Pastries in Paris (November 2004)
Making French chocolates in an English-speaking pastry class in Paris. Yum!
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School for Little Wanderers (October 2004)
A school day at the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers is not exactly like one at a regular high school.
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Cathy, 16, Mom (May 2004)
Enter Cathy's world of toddlers, diapers and high school parenting classes...
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Where is the French in Lewiston? (May 2004)
A familiar story of assimilation in America, with a French twist.
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One-Minute Vacation: May Day in Paris (May 2002)
Wandering through the protest rally in Paris on May 1, 2002.
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One-Minute Vacation: Avanos, Turkey (April 2002)
Sitting on the balcony of a pension in Turkey, listening to sounds of wind chimes and distant singing...
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One-Minute Vacation: Diktion Cave, Crete (March 2002)
Walking through the cave in Greece where Zeus was born.
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Refugees
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Europe, land of refuge? (January 2009)
A 30 minute special looking at asylum seekers and their rights across the continent, and throughout history
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Greece: many come, few want to stay (December 2008)
A Coast Guard patrol shows how Greece is on the front lines of European immigration
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American Purgatory (March 2008)
A one-hour documentary about the political asylum process in the US
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Adopt a Child, Save a Life? (September 2007)
An operation to evacuate orphans from Darfur, and bring them to France
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Where are the Iraqis? (September 2007)
Why are there so few Iraqi asylum seekers in France?
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Land of Opportunity (June 2007)
A refugee on life in America... and a surprising experience at the Canadian border
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Mogadishu in America (April 2007)
Somali refugees make new lives for themselves in the United States
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Political Asylum/Asile Politique (December 2006)
A look at how the US and France balance national interests with humanitarian and international obligations
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They Wanted Us to Leave (October 2005)
The refugee system we know today--and that is hotly debated--has its roots in European displacements after the war.
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Refugees, Evacuees: Let's call the whole thing off (September 2005)
Why do Americans hate the word refugee so much? Olivia Bueno comments.
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Political Asylum: An Overview (June 2005)
How does the United States offer refuge to those fleeing persecution? What are the concerns about offering
asylum?
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Music/Arts
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J-pop meets noise music in Paris (July 2008)
Tujiko Noriko layers makes a layered electronic music that mixes a Japanese pop sound with samples
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Flamboyant Gothic (September 2007)
A visit to the Tour Saint Jacques, a Gothic church steeple-turned-monument in the center of Paris
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My Rwanda: The Mighty Popo (August 2007)
Singing about the reconstruction of Rwanda
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Stenciling Paris (April 2007)
An audio tour of street art
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From Union Hall to Opera House (April 2007)
A small French town opens a world-class theater
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The Voice of Samuel L Jackson (March 2007)
The French voice behind the image onscreen
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Armenia Sacra (March 2007)
Armenian art and religious objects at the Louvre
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Boxed in: Contemporary African Art (December 2006)
The problems with defining artists by where they come from
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Things Are Not What They Seem (December 2006)
Set designers put their artistic talents to work during WWII
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To Catch the Past: La Machine (December 2006)
Old tunes for new audiences.
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Photos on the Page (November 2006)
The curious relationship between photos and the printed page
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The Cost of Art (September 2006)
Why do paintings cost what they cost?
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Maria Volonté: Tango Singer (April 2006)
A tango singer, in her own words
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Into the Head of a Composer: Transonic Arts (November 2005)
Ever wonder what contemporary music composers are thinking when they compose their music? Here's your chance to find out.
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Recorders: You Don't Know Them Like This! (August 2005)
The recorder as a modern classical instrument?
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Hoodios on Fifth Avenue (June 2005)
Hip Hop Hoodios, a Latin/Jewish band with not-so-family-friendly lyrics is invited to play at this year's Salute to Israel Parade.
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Con Toda Palabra: Lhasa de Sela (May 2005)
Lhasa talks about the influences of the three languages and cultures of her life--English, Spanish and French--on her music.
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Carving Music: Oboists and their reeds (March 2005)
Oboe players spend as much time carving reeds for their instruments as they do practicing them.
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Bronze Fairy Tales on Broadway (December 2004)
A walk down Broadway with sculptor Tom Otterness.
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Karaoke á la française (October 2004)
Consider these two daunting tasks: learning a foreign language and singing in front of a group of strangers. Now imagine combining the two.
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