Forked Tongues: Conversations with Foreigners Living in France Derek Rawson

Welcome back to Forked Tongues: Conversations with Foreigners Living in France!Episode 16! The first conversation in over a year on the podcast. To mark this special occasion, my guest is Kerry Varo from the US. He's a young guy, open, friendly, fearless. A talented baker, musician, and polyglot (his parents are Mexican), he has been in France for almost ten years now and has had many interesting experiences.We had a great discussion, touching on some of my favourite Forked Tongues...

Welcome to Forked Tongues: Conversations with Foreigners Living in France!Episode 15 of the journey but, once again, not your usual FT episode... This episode, dedicated to two of my favourite things: Paris and the movies, is a small FT homage to poet, Charles Simic, who died in January. In it, I read his piece: With Gene Tierney in Paris, taken from a book of film appreciation called O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Actors.With humour and poetry Simic describes his experience of being a young ...

Hello all!It's been too long... But I'm happy to let you know that Forked Tongues will be returning soon with new episodes. New conversations with fascinating foreigners talking about their experience of this equally fascinating country that is France.The adventure continues! I hope you'll join me.Thanks for listening.A bientôt!Derek Rawson

Welcome to Forked Tongues: Conversations with Foreigners Living in France!Episode 14 of the journey, but not your usual FT episode as it's not exactly a conversation...This episode is dedicated to French food, as seen through the eyes of one of my favourite writers, Jim Harrison. In it, I read his piece, Thirty-three Angles on Eating French, taken from his first collection of food writings, The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand.Jim Harrison's glorious pen and unmatched...

Welcome back Forked Tongues: Conversations with Foreigners Living in France!Episode 13! The first episode of 2022.In this episode I speak with Lesley Webster, a retired English teacher and passionate Francophile, who has been living in France for 20 years now. I met Lesley 10 years ago but hadn't seen her since, so our conversation was a great opportunity to not just catch up but learn about her life and life-long love of France.Our discussion takes us from her first visits here as a young gi...

Welcome to episode 12 of Forked Tongues: Conversations with Foreigners Living in France!In this episode I'm joined by Jim (and Janet) Neve, an English couple who live in the Pyrenees Orientales where I spent two weeks during this year's French summer holidays. When I visited them at their home they were busy looking after their grandson but kindly took time to speak to me about their life in a beautiful corner of France - at the foot of Mount Canigou!We discussed many aspects of French daily ...