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Hello everyone!
Welcome to the “new/old” Sound Kitchen. We’ve put the programme back together: instead of two smaller programs on two days, The Sound Kitchen is now one program on one day – Saturday, at 4:52, 6:22, and 7:52 universal time.
You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so tune in every Saturday!
Cookbook update: It’s there! It actually happened! The Sound Kitchen Listeners’ Cookbook is on our web-site! It is not completely finished, so if you don’t yet see your recipe, don’t worry. Anthony Terrade – without whom none of this would have happened - is still working on it. Just click on the Cookbook link, and you’re there. Anthony put a link on the Sound Kitchen Facebook page, too. Enjoy! Do send me your comments – and your photos!
Also, if you are interested in corresponding with other Sound Kitchen listeners, let me know. I’ll figure out a way to get you together - most likely through a special page on our web-site …
The quiz: this week’s question was read on 10 June, and was about Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and her Diamond Jubilee. 2012 marks the 60th year of Queen Elizabeth’s rule, which, by the way, is the second longest for a British monarch; only Queen Victoria – Elizabeth’s great-great-grandmother - reigned longer.
The first weekend in June was an all-stops out celebration: an 1000 boat strong royal pagent on the river Thames, a royal carriage procession, special services at St. Paul’s Cathedral, concerts, picnics … you name it, it happened. The crowning glory of the Jubilee weekend was the lighting of the beacons, on Monday 4 June. I asked you to send in the number of beacons which were lit across the world, in honor of the British monarch’s Diamond Jubilee.
The answer is: over 4200. The first was lit in Tonga, and the last was lit by Queen Elizabeth. The flame of this last beacon – called the National Beacon – was six meters high, and was followed by a fireworks display – there were 5000 individual bursts of fireworks. A royal display indeed!
The winners this week are: Mr. Ashok K. Bose, from Mississauga, in eastern Canada; Miss Zahida Soomro, from Sindh, Pakistan; Mrs. Kajari Chattopadhyay, from Murshidabad in West Bengal, India; Mrs. Anhana Parvin from the Shetu Radio Fan Club in Naogaon, Bangladesh, and Mr. Solomon Fessahazion, from Asmara, in Eritrea.
Congratulations, winners!
This week’s question is about Bastille Day … which commemorates the “storming of the Bastille” by the people of Paris on 14 July, 1789.
My question to you is: what was the “storming of the Bastille”? What did the people of Paris do on 14 July, 1789? What was the Bastille, and why did the population lay siege to it?
You have plenty of time to get your thoughts together and your pen to paper … we’re coming up on the summer break, which means the Sound Kitchen Special Recipes – special programmes cooked up just for you – are right around the corner. You have until 10 September to get your answers in; the winners will be announced on the 15 September programme. As always, 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:
or
Susan Owensby
RFI – The Sound Kitchen
BP 9516
75016 Paris
France
or
By SMS … Now you can send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen cell phone !!!!
Dial your country’s international access code, or “ + ”, 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, your weirdest dream, 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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