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He may have made a name for himself in light-hearted British rom-coms like "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "About a Boy" and "Notting Hill", but Hugh Grant has undergone a startling transformation over the last decade, rebranding himself as a character ac

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Beloved singer Fairuz, a symbol of unity in crisis-torn Lebanon, turns 90

Culture • 5:45 PM

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Legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz celebrated her 90th birthday as tributes poured in from around the world. Known for her songs of love, Lebanon, and the Palestinian cause, Fairuz remains a unifying figure in a divided country, with her enduring music cap

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Rwandan-British artist Dorothée Munyaneza's unconditional approach to love

Culture • 3:16 PM

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The multi-faceted performer Dorothée Munyaneza has adapted Kae Tempest's play "Hopelessly Devoted" for the stage, in a French-language production at the Bouffes du Nord theatre. She tells us why she wanted to explore many different forms of love in her v

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'A vision of benevolence': Why Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s legacy endures in France

Culture • 5:38 PM

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French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Pablo Neruda at the poet’s former home in Santiago during his visit to Chile on Wednesday, highlighting the enduring bond between the Nobel laureate and France. This connection, which began more than 80 ye

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Film show: A poignant tale in 'The Most Precious of Cargoes'

Culture • 2:28 PM

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French director Michel Hazanavicius decided that an animated feature was the best approach for his latest film, which follows the trajectory of a baby thrown from a train headed for Auschwitz. Film critic Emma Jones tells us why the fairy-tale tone of "T

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'Hello, Dolly!' comes to Paris: Hit musical celebrates 60th anniversary

Culture • 1:21 PM

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Paris is not always associated with musical theatre, but little by little the French capital is becoming more like Broadway and the West End. The latest live show to wow critics and audiences alike is "Hello, Dolly!". On Entre Nous, we speak to Caroline

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Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha: ‘Humanity is under the rubble’

Culture • 3:03 PM

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After losing his home, along with countless friends and family, Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha escaped Gaza with his wife and three children. Now in exile, the award-winning writer is on a mission to share the stories of those left behind. He speaks to

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Digital parenting: tips on how to use real-time location tracking

Culture • 1:10 PM

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In Entre Nous, we speak to Elizabeth Milovidov about real-time location tracking. Some parents may be worried about their children and decide that knowing their child's location is necessary for peace of mind. Real-time location tracking is possible usin

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Hitting the keys with pianist Alexandra Stréliski and organist Hampus Lindwall

Culture • 2:55 PM

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This week, Marjorie Hache speaks with award-winning French-Canadian pianist Alexandra Stréliski about her new album "Neo-Romance", which she is currently touring in France. Meanwhile, Sweden’s Hampus Lindwall tells us about American avant-garde composer

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Ready-to-wear, summer 2025: Paris, the ideal stage for Asian and African designers

Culture • 6:25 PM

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At more than 80 years old, Yohji Yamamoto still enjoys reassembling fabric like a child. At Issey Miyake, Satoshi Kondo offers a collection inspired by traditional Japanese papermaking. The Franco-Japanese designer Tatiana Quard creates silhouettes with

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Series show: The true story behind rogue trader Jerôme Kerviel

Culture • 3:30 PM

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His risky market trades at French bank Société Générale saw Jerôme Kerviel convicted of breach of trust and forgery in 2008. Now, the docu-series "Breaking the bank: One trader, 50 billion" revisits his story. Director Fred Garson tells us why he wanted

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A cultural stroll through Paris with chef Paul Pairet and singer Hélène in Paris

Culture • 2:22 PM

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This week, FRANCE 24’s Valérie Fayolle takes us inside one of Paris's most famous luxury hotels, the Hôtel de Crillon, and introduces us to Michelin-starred chef Paul Pairet, who heads up of one of the hotel's restaurants, Nonos. We also meet Hélène in P

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2024 Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey on her unintentional climate novel 'Orbital'

Culture • 3:12 PM

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This year's Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey speaks to FRANCE 24's Culture Editor Eve Jackson about her wonder-filled space novel "Orbital". They discuss climate change, fiction's role in politics and Elon Musk's space endeavors.

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Film show: 'Gladiator II' marks Roman epic's return

Culture • 2:37 PM

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It's been 24 years since Russell Crowe stepped into a dusty arena as the mighty Maximus. Now, Ridley Scott has returned to his blockbuster hit for a sequel starring Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington and Connie Nielsen. Film critic Emma Jones tells us why it

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UK's Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for 'Orbital'

Culture • 3:21 AM

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UK author Samantha Harvey, one of a record five women shortlisted for the Booker Prize, won the coveted award on Tuesday for her fifth novel, a "space pastoral" titled "Orbital", becoming the first woman to win the award since Margaret Atwood in 2019.

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Comedian Tatty Macleod on dating French vs English men

Culture • 3:12 PM

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She was on the show back in June to discuss her bilingual viral comedy sketches about the French and English that have millions of views. Tatty Macleod is the ultimate FRANCE 24 guest who fits right in here in our “franglais” world. She’s back as she’s j

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Music show: Leyla McCalla blends diasporic sounds on ‘Sun without the Heat’

Culture • 2:24 PM

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In this music show on arts24, Jennifer Ben Brahim is joined on set by American-Haitian multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla. She’s on tour with her fifth studio album “Sun Without the Heat”. It blends sounds from the diaspora – Afrobeat, Ethiopian modalit

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Beyonce leads Grammy nods after country album 'Cowboy Carter'

Culture • 9:23 AM

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Beyonce and her "Cowboy Carter" country album earned a leading 11 nominations for the Grammy Awards, the music industry's showcase gala, where she will face off against Taylor Swift and a new class of pop hitmakers. Beyonce has now been nominated a recor

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South African visual artist Lebohang Kganye shines at Paris Photo

Culture • 3:45 PM

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Dheepthika Laurent talks to Lebohang Kganye, recipient of the 2024 prestigious Deutsche Börse photography prize. The South African visual artist is displaying her work at the 27th edition of Paris Photo, one of the biggest photography fairs in the world.

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Dakar contemporary art month-long exhibition opens, on the theme of 'the wake'

Culture • 12:06 AM

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The 15th edition of the Dakar Biennial of Contemporary Art was officially inaugurated this Thursday. Initially scheduled for last May, it had been postponed for budgetary reasons. This year's “IN” exhibition features some 70 artists from Africa and the d

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UK star Craig David: Still 'Born to Do It'

Culture • 4:23 PM

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"7 Days", 'Walking Away", and "Rewind" were songs that defined an era of UK music and made waves across the globe in the early noughties. With these catchy lyrics and melodies, Craig David became the voice of the UK garage genre. The multimillion selling

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From book bans to celebrity endorsements: The US election culture wars

Culture • 3:14 PM

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Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez, Harrison Ford and even The Avengers have come out in support of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, while Republican hopeful Donald Trump has the likes of Elon Musk, Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan supporting h

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Music icon Quincy Jones dies at 91

Culture • 4:49 PM

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FRANCE 24 Journalist Jenny Ben Brahim tells us more about Quincy Jones, the superstar producer behind Michael Jackson's thriller album, who died at 91. Born in Chicago, Jones’ decades-long career started in smoky jazz clubs where he collaborated with jaz

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2024 Prix Goncourt awarded to Kamel Daoud for his novel 'Houris'

Culture • 4:31 PM

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The 2024 Prix Goncourt, France’s top literary prize, was awarded Monday to French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud for his novel “Houris” (ed. Gallimard) that looks back at the Algerian Civil War in the 1990s. Executive Director at the American Library in Par

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Music show: Okay Kaya and Ziyad Al-Samman bring their musical universes to France

Culture • 4:17 PM

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On today’s music show on arts24, Jennifer Ben Brahim is joined on set by Norwegian-American singer Okay Kaya and Syrian-British musician Ziyad Al-Samman. Okay Kaya is known for juxtaposing her sweet vocal melodies with her unfiltered take on the human ex

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Prix Goncourt: Kamel Daoud wins France's literary prize for Algerian Civil War novel ‘Houris’

Culture • 11:54 AM

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French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud has won the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize, for his novel set during the bloody "Black Decade" that tore apart his native Algeria at the end of the 20th century.

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'From one World to Another': Dominique Trinquand on the axes of humanity

Culture • 11:27 AM

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If you think of the major axes of the world, the big borderlines, you might think of migratory routes like through Africa into Europe, or through the Americas. You might also think of trade routes, like the Silk Road, or you might even think of the route

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Quincy Jones, music legend who worked with Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra, dies at 91

Culture • 7:53 AM

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Quincy Jones, a titan of American music who worked with artists ranging from Count Basie to Frank Sinatra and who then reshaped pop music by collaborating with Michael Jackson on "Thriller", died on Sunday at the age of 91, his publicist said.

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Hats off to Stephen Jones, the master of millinery

Culture • 3:09 PM

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In this edition of arts24, Jennifer Ben Brahim meets the master of millinery, Stephen Jones, at a monumental exhibition of his work at Paris's Palais Galliera museum. The British designer has been working for over four decades on both sides of the Englis

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Paris Opera to close its houses for years of renovation work

Culture • 6:28 PM

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Two of the French capital’s most important cultural institutions, the Palais Garnier and the Opera Bastille, are in need of major renovations, according to France's Court of Accounts. As a result, the two Parisian opera houses will be closed from mid-202

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Zombies: An anthropological, ancestral look at the living dead

Culture • 3:09 PM

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We learn more about the history and traditions surrounding zombies at the Quai Branly museum in Paris, as our reporters take a tour of a new exhibition there. Contemporary art from Benin is in the spotlight at the Conciergerie in Paris, as dozens of crea

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Film show: Palme d'Or winner 'Anora' reverses Cinderella fantasy

Culture • 4:46 PM

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It won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year: "Anora" is Sean Baker's most sophisticated film yet, according to critic Emma Jones. She tells us why there is lots to love in this story of a sex worker and an oligarch’s son, and why lead actr

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New Paris exhibition explores changing nature of intimacy

Culture • 2:44 PM

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From the bedroom to social media: a new exhibition at Paris's Museum of Decorative Arts explores how the concept of privacy and intimacy has evolved over more than 300 years. In this edition of Entre Nous, FRANCE 24's Charli James speaks to Christine Mac

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'No Other Land': Documenting displacement and destruction in the West Bank

Culture • 3:26 PM

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“We have no other land to go to," a Palestinian woman responds to Israeli soldiers seeking to displace her community from their village in the West Bank. It's one of the many moving moments captured in the documentary "No Other Land", by an Israeli and P

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Music show: Katy J Pearson on her third album 'Someday, Now'

Culture • 2:35 PM

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English singer-songwriter Katy J Pearson has just released her third album "Someday, Now", which sees the indie-folk artist reconnect with people around her while drawing in 1980s-tinted aesthetics. We also hear from Xavier Boyer, the singer of the indie

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Summer 2025 ready-to-wear collections: An invigorated avant garde

Culture • 6:55 PM

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Fashion's avant garde is at its most creative when it looks to the outside world for inspiration. For next summer's ready-to wear-looks, Victor Weinsanto, responsible for the daring looks we saw at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, pays tribute to dra

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A cultural stroll through the Moroccan city of Tangier

Culture • 4:23 PM

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This week in Paris des Arts, FRANCE 24's Valérie Fayolle sets her sights between the Atlantic and Mediterranean: Tangier in Morocco. Kenza Bennani, stylist and founder of the New Tangier brand, welcomes us to her studio and shows us her designs that refl

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John Woo's 'The Killer' returns: A 21st-century femme fatale

Culture • 3:14 PM

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His 1989 film "The Killer" is a cult classic of Hong Kong action cinema, featuring John Woo's dynamic style as a filmmaker and highlighting Chow Yun-Fat's charisma as its protagonist. Woo has now revisited the film for a 21st-century audience, shifting t

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Cult French film 'La Haine' shifts its story to the stage

Culture • 2:15 PM

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When the cult French film "La Haine" came out 30 years ago, it sent shockwaves through the world of French cinema. The movie has now been adapted for a musical; our reporters went to La Seine Musicale theatre to check it out. Meanwhile, Lyon is currently

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Original typescript of children's classic 'The Little Prince' goes up for sale

Culture • 12:05 AM

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An original typescript of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince", containing extensive handwritten corrections by the French author and described by book dealers as "literary treasure", will soon go on sale with an expected price of at least $1.2

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'Monsieur Aznavour': Legendary singer's life brought to the screen in France

Culture • 1:26 PM

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He was an icon of la chanson française. Charles Aznavour's lyrical talent illuminated the 20th century and shone until his death in 2018. The singer-songwriter's life has now been brought to the screen by Mehdi Idir and slam poet Grand Corps Malade. Film

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US photographer Tina Barney's penetrating portraits

Culture • 2:08 PM

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The American fine art photographer Tina Barney is known for giving us a glimpse into the soul of her subjects, deftly capturing a passing glance, a wistful gaze or a confident look. The artist has been honing that singular perspective from behind her tra

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Music show: Franco-British artist Emily Loizeau digs deep with 'La Souterraine'

Culture • 1:32 PM

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Franco-British singer-songwriter Emily Loizeau joins us on arts24 to tell us about her new album "La Souterraine", which she produced with John Parish, a longtime collaborator of PJ Harvey. She tells us more about her multi-layered pop and rock album, th

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Art Basel Paris: Grand Palais welcomes a world of contemporary art

Culture • 2:10 PM

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Three years after the majestic Parisian monument closed for renovations, the Grand Palais is once again the HQ of the contemporary art world, as it hosts Art Basel Paris. We hear from Oliver Beer, one of the artists showing his sound-inspired pieces at t

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US author Ayana Mathis puts her characters on shaky ground in 'The Unsettled'

Culture • 1:21 PM

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After the phenomenal success of her first novel, "The Twelve Tribes of Hattie", author Ayana Mathis returns with a story that shifts between 1980s Philadelphia and a mythical Black utopia in Alabama. She tells us about finding inspiration in a particular

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'Smalltown Boy': Bronski Beat's gay anthem strikes chord 40 years on

Culture • 5:55 AM

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Forty years after its 1984 release, Bronski Beat's new wave hit "Smalltown Boy" has transcended generations to become an LGBTQ anthem for young and old alike.

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'Mortelle Adèle': The hit French comic that gets kids reading

Culture • 12:52 AM

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In this edition of Entre Nous, we speak to Diane Le Feyer, the illustrator of "Mortelle Adèle" or "Rebel Adèle". We find out more about the creative process behind this much-loved French comic. Le Feyer tells us how she and Mister Tan collaborate and how

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One Direction's Liam Payne dead at 31 after Buenos Aires hotel fall

Culture • 11:18 PM

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Musician Liam Payne, 31, died after falling off a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday. The pop star rose to stardom as a former member of the hugely popular British boy band One Direction, accruing a loyal fan base known as "Directione

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Film show: French teen romance raises our heart rate

Culture • 1:16 PM

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Gilles Lellouche's take on the euphoria of teen romance was savaged by the press at the Cannes Film Festival, but critic Emma Jones tells us why "Beating Hearts" won her over by capturing the intensity of first love. We also discuss the dark undercurrent

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Blanca Li: Choreographer to the stars

Culture • 1:29 PM

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The Spanish powerhouse dancer has been called on by the likes of Beyoncé, Coldplay and Paul McCartney to create memorable works. One of the world's most sought-after choreographers, Blanca Li is Eve Jackson's guest to talk about her latest creations show

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Music Show: Tshegue bring Kinshasa to Paris with new EP ‘Argent’

Culture • 3:45 PM

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In this edition of our music show on arts24, Jennifer Ben Brahim is joined on set by one half of the Franco-Congolese duo Tshegue. Faty Sy Savanet and Nicolas Dacunha AKA “Dakou” burst onto the music scene in 2017 with their powerful blend of afropunk, r

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A cultural stroll through Paris with singer Meryl and sculptor Agnès Baillon

Culture • 2:18 PM

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This week, FRANCE 24’s Valérie Fayolle meets Meryl. The singer and rapper from Martinique takes us to the Elysée Montmartre concert hall, where she first performed in Paris. She chats about her latest album, Caviar I and its many influences. Then it's of

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New French series sheds light on fake victim of Paris attacks

Culture • 2:08 PM

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Olivia Salazar-Winspear and Dheepthika Laurent look at the latest releases on the small screen. They discuss "The Confidante", Max's first French series about a woman who faked her way into a victim's association set up after the Bataclan terror attack i

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Han Kang wins South Korea's first Nobel Prize in Literature

Culture • 2:56 PM

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Best known for her dark and troubling novel "The Vegetarian", Han Kang has been announced as the 2024 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, with the Swedish Academy praising her "intensely poetic prose" and the important questions of historical trau

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'Unicorns' enchant Brittany coast at Dinard Film Festival

Culture • 2:24 PM

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From "The Full Monty" and "Billy Elliot" to last year's "The Quiet Girl", which went all the way to the Oscars, arts24 is at the intimate French film festival that’s served as the launchpad for independent gems that go on to conquer the world of cinema.

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Film show: Pamela Anderson returns as 'The Last Showgirl'

Culture • 1:49 PM

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She was the ultimate 1990s bombshell: Pamela Anderson got her break on TV show "Baywatch" three decades ago. After years out of the spotlight, Anderson returns as the protagonist of Gia Coppola's film, "The Last Showgirl". The actress spoke to film criti

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'The Apprentice': Film about Donald Trump released a month before US election

Culture • 1:45 PM

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There have been documentaries, television programmes and "Saturday Night Live" comedy sketches, but this is the first film about one of the most divisive men of our times. "The Apprentice" tells of how Donald Trump rose to fame and power in 1980s New Yor

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Music show: Cassius on three decades of the French Touch

Culture • 2:31 PM

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Hubert Blanc-Francard, aka Boombass, is one half of one of France's coolest music exports: Cassius. In the wake of acts such as Daft Punk and Air, they conquered dancefloors and charts across the world as part of the French Touch movement, before reinven

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Ready-to-wear collections, summer 2025: The new Amazons

Culture • 4:56 PM

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A celebration of the body, dance, art and sport! At Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri installs Italian archer-artist Sagg Napoli in a long glass cage. Her collection is an ode to the Amazons, a reference to the designs created by Christian Dior in the 1950s. For

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'The Wild Robot' by Chris Sanders: Nature meets tech in new Dreamworks fable

Culture • 3:24 PM

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Chris Sanders is the artistic mastermind behind children's films "Lilo and Stitch", "How to Train Your Dragon" and "The Croods". His latest animated feature sees a lone robot, Roz, cast adrift on an island where her artificial intelligence is pitted agai

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