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Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday at 4:52, 6:22, and 7:52 universal time. You’ll hear the winners' 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!
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Hot news! The RFI Listeners Club is going strong! As a member of the RFI Listeners Club, you’ll receive extra goodies when you win a quiz – so join today! All you have to do to become a member of the RFI Listeners Club is to send us two identity photographs, your full name, your postal mailing address, and if you have one, your email address.
Your official RFI Listeners Club membership card and number will be sent to you by my good colleague Sébastien Bonijol in the Listener Relations department. Every time you enter a quiz, include your membership number – and if you win, you’ll find an extra special present in your mailbox. So don’t put it off – send your photos and mailing address to Sébastien today!
Sébastien Bonijol
RFI – Relations Auditeurs
80, rue Camille Desmoulins
92130, Issy-les-Moulineaux
France
Nota bene: The RFI Listeners Club used to be called “Club 9516”. So if you are a member of the “Club 9516”, you are already a member of the RFI Listeners Club. Your “Club 9516” membership number still works – no need to reapply. Just include your membership number on your quiz entries.
Look at that beautiful link to the Sound Kitchen Listeners Cookbook! It actually happened! I’m very happy about it, and I hope you enjoy looking at it – and trying out some recipes. Please feel free to send in any comments you have, and we would love it if you’d send in photos – of you, and your completed dish. Don’t hesitate to use the “zoom” tool on countries where there are a lot of forks; that will separate them so you can read the titles easier. Click on the title, and the recipe will appear.
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.
Today’s question was read on 24 November, and was about French politics, and France’s main conservative party, the Union for a Popular Movement, or the UMP. The UMP is former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s party.
When I asked you the question, the UMP had just voted for their next president. Holding the presidency of the party is seen as a launching pad for the presidential nomination, although there is no guarantee that the party leader will be the party’s candidate for president of the French republic.
The battle for the leadership of the UMP party was bitter. When the votes were counted, Jean-François Copé was declared the winner by a very narrow margin – only 50.03 per cent. His rival made claims of fraud, and formed a break-away party (with the unfortunate acronym “RUMP”): it was a big mess, and quite damaging to the party’s image. Anyway, the row continued until just a couple of weeks ago, when both men agreed to hold a new vote by October of next year for the leadership of the party. Until then, Copé will lead the party. By the way, Jean-François Copé has recently been elected the most disliked politician in France.
My question to you was: what is the name of the other candidate for the leadership of the UMP party, and what was his position in Nicolas Sarkozy’s government?
The answer is: François Fillion. He was France’s prime minister from 17 May 2007 to 16 May 2012.
The winners this week are: Thierry Munganyishyaka, from Byumba town in Rwanda; Miss Usha Hazarika from Assam, India; Zia Munawar from Karachi, Pakistan; Mr Hasan Saeed from Lahore, Pakistan, and Mr Sunil Dhungana, from Kathmandu, Nepal.
Congratulations, winners!
This week’s question is about Japan. This past Wednesday, on 26 December, Japan’s parliament formally elected a new prime minister. My question to you is: who is he, and what is the name of his party? Send in the name of Japan’s new prime minister, as well as the name of his political party.
Get your answer in by 28 January, and tune in on 2 February to see if you are one of the lucky winners. As always, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, your RFI Listeners Club membership number if you have one … 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 … You can also 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 – and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number!
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!
Happy New Year from the Sound Kitchen, and the entire RFI English newsroom.
All the best,
Susan
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