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These are bi-weekly podcasts of life in the French capital (well mainly) looking at issues of participation and wellbeing. Always featuring snippets of popular tracks including Klaxons, The Las, Buvette and more classics like Bronski Beat and Taxi Girl.

01/12/2014

Episode 10 – Stay Negative: The HIV Prevention Toolkit

First broadcast: Mon 1 Dec on WorldRadioParis to mark World Aids Day 2014 ActUp Paris campaign at community level to reach out with information about ways to stay negative. HIV Negative or HIV Positive, we're all part of the solution. We met up with Tom Craig who is a founder member of the Paris arm of ActUp. Tom explains the impact of PrEp (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) explaining ways to improve HIV prevention through using it as part of the HIV prevention Toolkit.

13 min
01/12/2014

Episode 9 – Bird n Bass: Your Living Room Jazz Cafe

First broadcast: Mon 17 Nov – Sun 30 Nov 2014 on WorldRadioParis Today chanteuse Liv Monaghan is inviting you along to your very own concert in your apartment. We’d originally arranged making a gritty stroll around the boulevards of Belleville with the irish-born singer. But when the 29 year old Jazz vocalist form Cork City in Ireland mentioned a passion for playing intimate Jazz-Cafe-Concerts in Parisian apartments; well, we just had to bring your own serenade.

8 min
01/12/2014

Episode 8 – A rainy day in London

First broadcast: Mon 03 Nov – Sun 16 Nov 2014 on WorldRadioParis French contemporary artist Bertrand Lavier is well-known for putting hose-pipes in the fountains at Versailles. He wraps the plastic mass-produced hoses and nozzles around classic features – gives them a modish upgrade, if you like. In this episode we took a rainy hop across the channel to catch up with Lavier at an unveiling of his London edition of the sculpture Fountain. Lavier's Anglophone-French-Touch fountain is continuing for a year until next October and in plain view on Serpetine Gallery's lawn. The episode features track We Are The Rain from the happy East London band Flyte.

7 min
01/12/2014

Episode 7 – Talk Like a Paris Greeter

Paris Greeters are 'flaneurs', and masters of the stroll. And they like to share their passion with new visitors to Paris. So you want to know how to Talk Like a Paris Greeter? In this final episode, listen once again to Jean Claude who heads up the volunteer network of over 300 Greeters. After listening in, you might be interested to get the bigger picture at www.parisgreeters.fr

7 min
01/12/2014

Episode 6 – Street artist KASHINK

Art in the KASHINK of an Eye Talking Shop and Shutters with Parisian street artist KASHINK. The report is done a done as homage to the bande dessinee or cartoon. Looking at issues related to Oct 15th's Women's Forum: leadership; getting a trade; pushing the envelope; keeping inspired, and; making a difference. Featuring the track P.A.R.I.S from post-punk new wave group Taxi Girl.

6 min
01/12/2014

Episode 5 – Walk With a Paris Greeter

#urbanstates report 5: For this bi-weekly dose, I'll be taking you for a stroll with Paris Greeter Stephane in Montmartre. In this report featuring sound clips from French Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin who joined us on the stroll, and too there's Minister Laurent Fabius Ministry on behalf of Foreign Affairs and International Development, both of whom delivered speeches at this summer's French Tourism Forum. Featuring the track There Is No Other Day, Klaxons. Originally airing on WorldRadioParis.fr – Mon 22 Sept – Sun 5 Oct 2014

6 min
01/12/2014

Episode 4 – Meet Up with a Paris Greeter

#urbanstates report 4: For this bi-weekly dose, I'll introduce you to Jean-Claude. A full-time banker who heads up the organisation Paris Greeters in his spare time. The volunteer group make informal strolls around their neighbourhoods. Featuring tracks Happy, Pharrell Williams and There She Goes, The La's. First broadcast on WorldRadioParis (Mon 8 Sept – Sunday 21). The radio station for the English speaking community in Paris.

7 min
01/12/2014

Episode 3 – Secret Paris Sculptures of Jean Dubuffet

A celebration of the secret sculptures that brut 'outsider' artist Jean Dubuffet give the people of Paris to enjoy, and who has now been absent for 29 years. Originally broadcast on WorldRadioParis Mon 25 Aug – Sun 7 Sept 2014.

7 min
01/12/2014

Episode 2 – The Kids of Paris are going to be Happy

A report taking a look at Paris' Voies Sur Berges, a 2.4km stretch along the Seine which is celebrating its first anniversary after becoming an animated and pedestrianised space spanning the under carriages of five of Paris' 37 bridges. Originally broadcast on WorldRadioParis Mon 11 Aug – Sun 24 Aug 2014.

6 min

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These are bi-weekly podcasts of life in the French capital (well mainly) looking at issues of participation and wellbeing. Always featuring snippets of popular tracks including Klaxons, The Las, Buvette and more classics like Bronski Beat and Taxi Girl.

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