Pham: So on the right hand side you'll see a stencil by Miss.Tic. It's a picture of a very seductive looking woman It says 'est-il urgent d'attendre' which means is it urgent to wait- Most of her stencils are a combination of a seductive woman and a message, so it's playing on the idea of women selling ideas.

Pham: Normally in the 5th and the 13th, they seem to be completely cool with the stencil art.... Particularly outside a lot of the pubs

Neil: I'm Neil, and we're in Conneley's corner, in Paris [Sarah: and it's an Irish pub?] Yup... Different artist- does grafittis all over the neighborhood, and when we re-do the painting on the outside, we keep the grafittis. I think they deserve to stay on the wall...

Pham: So this is- a stencil by an artist called Jef Aerosol. And Jef Aerosol does a lot of these stencils of musicians

Aerosol: My first night on the street was really something. It was illegal of course, In the middle of the night, and I came back the following morning to take photos, and I was quite surprised, because the population's reaction was quite positive. At the time in '82 you did not have tags and grafs- It was just the beginning... So the walls were blank- it was all very new, so the people were surprised, and interested. Today you have so much stuff on the walls that you really have to be different or original to be noticed

Kaufman: I'm Henry Kaufman- I am the president of the Miss Tic fan club. This week uh- she made uh- series about Miss Tic for President. And we will stick the posters in Paris It's jokes about uh taxes, about uh- governmental disease. She's always double sense. L'impot sur l'iforune. In France we have a tax on the fortune. She turned it to l'impot on l'ifortune. A tax on unhappiness. Another one it's uh, la retraite- the pension? Works on your mind. And uh- your mind works on the pension...

Aerosol: I don't want to be- politically explicit on the walls. Things have to be read in between the lines.

Pham: We've got a Jef Aerosol here. It's just a serious looking man with glasses and a tie. And the catchphrase is 'no aux jeunes' which means no to young people. And I love this, because this stencil is right behind a no entry road sign, and then you have a stencil that says no to young people

Pham: So this used to be a great little uh- tunnel, passage where you could find lots of different Jef Aerosol stencils, music related. But at the moment all these stencils have been covered over with posters about the elections. And so we've got Segolene Royale and Nicolas Sarkozy. I prefer street art to political posters [laugh]... but political posters they'll get torn down within a couple of months, and maybe the stencils will survive

Aerosol: My involvement, politically, if any, is in the very fact of painting on the street. Stenciling an old woman sitting on the street begging is obviously political- but at the same time it doesn't refer to any party. Working on the street is a way of showing my work to an extremely large number of people who never go to galleries, who are not interested in art in general.