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Patricia Killeen is joined by Fr. Jim Doyle, the Irish Chaplain to Paris. After graduating from civil engineering in Galway, Ireland, Jim worked as a site engineer with SISK in Limerick before joining the NGO CONCERN. Between 1996 and 1999, he volunteered with CONCERN on schools, roads, and water projects in Cambodia and Burundi. In Burundi, a life-changing event occurred when he felt the calling to be a priest. 

On this week’s episode of This is Not a Poem, host Elliot K.B. was joined by WRP’s Yannick Champion-Osselin to discuss Jewish poet and photographer Claude Cahun and their poem Prisonnier du verbe.  They discuss the poem’s liberation from traditional poetic form, as well as the text’s multitude of binaries and art as political in the historical context of resistance against German occupation.

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A New Era for French Aperitifs: Introducing Lutèce with Joshua Fontaine

Lost in Frenlation’s host and founder, Manon Kerjean recaps her time at the 2024 Cannes film festival With ARBL Murray. Manon talks about the few French films that walked away with awards, the films she found most moving, Greta Gerwig as the new Jury president, and the prevalence of the #MeToo movement on the red carpet, which included a mysterious list and the hiring of a crisis management PR team by the festival itself. Did bits about the aging Richard Gere, the grey dilm with Demi Moore, the extraordinary actions of actress and activist Judith Godreche.

This episode is Produced and hosted by ARBLE Murray and recorded remotely from Paris and Cannes.

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The Trace We Leave Behind with Poet Patrick Williamson 

English poet and translator based in Paris Patrick Williamson speak with Elliot KB about the process of working between multiple languages, and how translation leaves its mark on a text.