The vintage vibe of Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside

In this show Eve Jackson meets the juke-rock revivalists, Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside. Plus, have you ever wondered how artists build their mammoth creations - today their secret is revealed. We're also celebrating France 24’s fifth birthday by going behind the scenes of the Culture show.

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Eve Jackson

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Slideshow: Behind the scenes

12/04/2013 - CULTURE

Film Focus

In today’s show we meet French actress Kalki Koechlin, who’s making a name for herself in India’s multi billion euro film industry. Also on the show there's Wedded Bliss, and then there's "I Give it a Year", the film that’s infusing realism into the rom com. Plus we enter the enchanted universe of French director Jacques Demy who brought the musical to France.

11/04/2013 - CULTURE

THE Female Filmmaker

On today’s show the director Margarethe Von Trotta talks to Eve Jackson about her film 'Hannah Arendt', being called one of the world's most important feminist filmmakers and what it’s like to be compared to Ingmar Bergman. Also on the programme, the artist who makes the familiar seem strange, Anne Deleporte talks about her work being shown at the Visconti Gallery in Paris and at the contemporary art fair 'Drawing Now Paris'.

10/04/2013 - CULTURE

'Beautiful Africa'

With Daman Albarn and Paul McCartney as fans, it’s no wonder she’s one of Africa's leading musical artists. On today’s show Eve Jackson meets Malian singer Rokia Traoré. Also on the programme the award-winning author Susan Fletcher talks about her quietly beautiful book "The Silver Dark Sea" which has just been translated into French.

09/04/2013 - CULTURE

The Texan Conductor Making Waves in Europe

Today’s guest, John Axelrod, is probably the only conductor working today who was previously a rock'n'roll talent scout for a record company discovering the likes of The Smashing Pumpkins, and the head of a wine firm. He has performed with some of the world's leading orchestras. His most recent appointment is Chief Conductor of the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, here in France.

09/04/2013 - CULTURE

The Artists Who Can Control Time

Ireland's foremost new media talents Cleary and Connolly join us in the studio to talk about their new exhibition "Look Both Ways" at the Centre Culturel Irlandais here in Paris. Also, a new show explores the influential work of French artist Eugene Boudin, and we take a trip to Basel where art from one of the best-known Swiss painters of the 19th century, Ferdinand Hodler, is on display.

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by Anonyme - 16/12/2011 - 15:22

Happy birthday France 24 and the culture show. Keep up the good work!!!

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by Anonyme - 06/12/2011 - 23:43

Happy birthday France 24 - I found it feeling interesting and refreshing to see a bit of what it's like for you behind the scenes... keep up the good work.