Are you one of this week’s lucky winners? Today you’ll hear who won the quiz about the Academy Awards. Click on that little “listen” arrow above, and join in!
Hello everyone!
You’ve surely noticed by now we’ve been experimenting with the Sound Kitchen recipes … on Saturdays, at 5:16 universal time, tune in to hear if you are amongst the week’s winners. The winners names are here on our website, too. Look for Short Features/Sound Kitchen Winners.
Tune in on Sundays, at 4:22, 5:52 and 7:22 universal time, for the quiz question ... and whatever else is cooking up in the Sound Kitchen.
I have wonderful news! The Sound Kitchen listeners' cookbook is finally to become a reality. First it will be put online and then we’ll get to work on a printed version. The web team has asked for photos of your prepared dishes, as well as of you. So if you sent in a recipe, get back into your kitchen and get cooking … but before you tuck in to your fabulous dish, take a minute to take a picture or two of the final product. And of yourself, too!
The projected date for the online version of the cookbook is May. Yippee!
This week’s question was read on 4 March, and was about the Oscar awards or, to be perfectly correct, the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards. I asked you to send in the name of the woman who won Best Leading Actress and the name of the film in which she played.
The answer is: Meryl Streep, for The Iron Lady, about former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. This is Ms Streep’s third Oscar – she won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979 and she won Best Actress in a Leading Role for Sophie’s Choice in 1982.
The winners this week are: Mr Uko Kalu, from Serrekunda, The Gambia; Mr Charles Harlich, from Hightstown, New Jersey in the US; Mr Hazarika Deekoy from the SW-DXers Club in Assam, India; Mr Muhammad Shamim from Kerala State, India, and Mrs P Krishnaveni, from the DW Listeners Club in Hyderabad, India.
Congratulations, winners!
This week’s question is about Kofi Annan, who is celebrating his 74th birthday today. Most people at age 74 are taking it easy – but not Mr Annan. The former secretary general of the United Nations is still working, accepting, to say the least, “difficult” missions in the field of international diplomacy. Remember, he helped find a solution to the post-election crisis in Kenya back in 2008? And he’s back at work now, on what has been dubbed “mission impossible” by pundits … what is this mission impossible? What is Kofi Annan’s current mission? For which country is he trying to find a peaceful political solution?
Send me your answer by 14 May; the answer and the winners will be announced on the 19 May programme. Be sure you send your postal address in with your answer … and be sure and tell me if you are a Mr or a Mrs or a Ms or a Miss – I don’t want to get it wrong!
Send your answers to:
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Susan Owensby
RFI – The Sound Kitchen
BP 9516
75016 Paris
France
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By SMS … Now you can send your quiz answers via your cell phone !!!!
Dial your country’s international access code, and then:
33 6 31 12 96 82. Don’t forget to include your mailing address in your text.
Remember, it’s not just the quiz which wins you a prize. If your essay goes on the air, you’ll find a package in the mail from the Sound Kitchen. Write in about your community heroes – the people in your community who are quietly working to make the world a better place, in whatever way they can. I am still looking for your “This I Believe” essays, too. Tell us about the principles that guide your life … what you have found to be true from your very own personal experience. Or write in with your most memorable moment, and/or your proudest achievement.
Send your mini book reviews, your musical requests, your secret “guilty” pleasure (mine’s chocolate!), your tricks for remembering things, your favourite quotations and proverbs, descriptions of the local festivals you participate in, or just your general all-around thoughts to:
Include a phone number, if you can. I’d like to call you and put you on-the-air … and send you a thank-you gift for participating.
I look forward to hearing from you soon!
All the best,
Susan
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