The English Language Broadcast of Radio Exterior de España has been on the air since 1944. Our broadcasts seek to inform listeners around the world about goings-on in Spain, as well as offer a Spanish perspective on world events.
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Paris GOOD food + wine Paris' premier food+wine podcast. It's the first ever English language radio show/podcast about the city's food and wine scene broadcast from and produced in Paris, France. Hosted ...
Paige Donner - Host & Producer
Host-producer Paige Donner brings you Local GOODfood+wine (formerly Paris GOOD food+wine). The first-ever English language radio/podcast show about food and wine broadcast from Paris, France. Show NOTES: http://localfood.wine & http://localfoodandwine.wordpress.com @localfoodwine Contact http://paigedonner.info For more goodness: Download the Paris Food And Wine APP in APP Store and Google Play! Paris Food And Wine offers you tips, deals and promotions on all the best restaurants, cafés, bar ...
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Spain's central bank is the Banco de España, and its archives contain decades of information about its branches, its buildings and its employees. And many of the documents, from the last quarter of the nineteenth century onwards, contain photographs. The archivists at the Banco de España have spent recent years cataloguing all the photographs found…
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English Language Broadcast - A history of Madrid's literary district for World Book Day - 24/04/24
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El Barrio de las letras is Madrid's literary district, full of history and paved with words of great Spanish authors... Literally. Felicity Hughes, writer for the new Lonely Planet Madrid tour guides, has just written a book all about the neighbourhood explaining its history and its authors. She joins us in the studio, along with David Price, Engli…
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English Language Broadcast - Art that connects: the Prado's travelling masterpieces - 20/04/24
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This year, eighteen masterpieces from the Prado Museum's collection will be seen in museums in different regions all around Spain. Works from painters such as Murillo, Velázquez, Rubens and el Greco. In today's broadcast we talk to the Prado Museum's Manager of Preservation, Víctor Cajeao, to learn more about this project, which has the support of …
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In Andalucía, the southern-most region of Spain, the city of Seville has come alive for the springtime Feria de Abril, the April Fair. This week-long celebration with medieval roots begins every year soon after Holy Week and is one of the the biggest event of the year for Seville-natives. Sevillanas, flamenco, casetas, bullfighting, horse-drawn car…
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English Language Broadcast - Social media bans: The struggle to regulate the internet - 16/04/24
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A few weeks ago a Spanish judge ordered the closing of Telegram in Spain, an instant messagging platform with more than 8 million users in the country. This decision came after a complaint from media organizations Mediaset, Atresmedia and Movistar Plus, accusing the platforms of allowing users to share copyrighted content. The order sparked a wave …
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English Language Broadcast - The Canary Islands have a limit: a war against mass tourism - 13/04/24
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"Tourists go home", graffitis with these words were found in the walls of the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. But what some British media have called a "war against the Brits" is not a rejection to tourism but the defense of biodiversity and decent living conditions for locals. According to the Canarian government, in 2023, the islands r…
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English Language Broadcast - S.A.R.A.H.: The AI health assistant developed by the WHO - 11/04/24
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April 10th is the International Day of Science and Technology, a day established by the general conference of UNESCO to highlight the value of scientific and technological advances. This date also honours Doctor Bernardo Houssay, the first Latin American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1947 for his discoveries in Physiology and Medicin…
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Today we'll be talking about The Art of Manga. Manga, for those who don't know, are Japanese graphic novels, and anime is Japanese animation in the same style. This year, the anime film The Boy and the Heron won best animated film at the Oscars, and anime series and films are growing more and more popular outside of Japan... as are the manga they a…
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English Language Broadcast - Research on alzheimer's disease and cancer metastasis - 06/04/24
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April 7th is World Health Day, a day sponsored by the World Health Organization to draw attention about health and raise awareneess abour certain health-related issues. This year's theme is "My health, my right" which aims to "champion the right of everyone, everywhere to have access to quality health services, education, and information" and promo…
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It has been 85 years since the end of the Spanish Civil War and the beginning of the Francoist dictatorship. The war between the Republicans and the Nationalists took place between the year 1936 and 1939 and marked a dark period in the history of Spain. And even today, Spanish society continues to suffer the consequences of this conflict. Despite t…
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English Language Broadcast - Women and engineering: fighting the gender gap in STEM - 02/04/24
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The word engineer has its origin in the latin "ingenium", a word associated with the mental capacity to develop and design new things. Any person who has the will to innovate and create something could be an engineer, regardless of their gender. Still, we find that women are a minority in the engineering field, in fact, according to data from the S…
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English Language Broadcast - Holy week in Spain: A tradition celebrated in all regions - 30/03/24
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On today's broadcast we retrieve a special program from our archives. Written by Jesus Carreras and translated to English by our colleague Alison Hughes, this broadcast tells us about how Holy Week is celebrated in the regions of Spain. Escuchar audio
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English Language Broadcast - 'No KKK, Spanish Tradition': The History of Holy Week Hoods - 28/03/24
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It's Easter Week, celebrated in Spain as Semana Santa or 'Holy Week', and processions with hundreds of years of history parade the streets all over the country. In today's broadcast, we'll be focusing on one aspect of these parades. The nazarenos (or the penintents) don hoods eerily similar to those of the Ku Klux Klan, and every year, Spanish peop…
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English Language Broadcast - EU AI Act: The first law to regulate artificial intelligence - 26/03/24
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Recently, the European Parliament approved the first regulation on artificial intelligence, which establishes some requirements and obligations for AI platforms that operate in the European Union. This law is part of the EU digital strategy and aims to ensure better condition for the development and use of this technology while protecting fundament…
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English Language Broadcast - De ferias a feria: A tour to celebrate poetry and theater - 23/04/24
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We are slowly approaching the end of the month of March and there are two dates that we could not miss. On the 21st of March we celebrated World Poetry Day, a date that was declared by UNESCO in the year 1999, to "celebrate one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity." And next week, on the 27th of Marc…
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English Language Broadcast - Spain: The trials and triumphs of a modern European country - 21/03/24
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Spain's social and political issues might sometimes be difficult to understand for a foreign audience and sometimes even for Spaniards... Separatism, nationalism, polarisation are some of the concepts that have been making headlines in the last years. English journalist and writer, Michael Reid, provides some context about these issues in his book …
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English Language Broadcast - Celebrating comic books and graphic novels on Comic Book Day - 19/03/24
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In 2022, the Spanish Council of Ministers declared the 17th of March as Comic Book Day, a measure to promote the sector and recognize its social and cultural value and importance. This date was chosen to commemorate the first publication of the legendary comic magazine, TBO, back in 1917 and which became so popular that people started using the wor…
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Broadcast radio is the most popular source of in-car entertainment, with 70% of the content listened to in cars being radio but the car industry is slowly moving towards radio-less cars. New electric vehicles manufactured by BMW, Porsche, Audi, Volvo and Tesla have all dropped AM radio. In the face of this, UNESCO and broadcast organizations recent…
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English Language Broadcast - Dickens' journalistic legacy adapted for the Spanish public - 14/03/24
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Before becoming the most popular novelist in the 19th century, Charles Dickens was a prolific journalist, a profession that he continued until his final days. He published more than 4 hundred articles, in very varied genres: satire, melodrama, opinion, essay... Now a new book aims to bring this journalistic legacy closer to the Spanish-speaking pub…
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English Language Broadcast - Signs and objects: Pop-Art from the Guggenheim Collection - 12/03/24
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With the development of new technologies children and teenagers are more and more exposed to online content that can be damaging for their emotional well-being. This content can include explicit violence, sexual images, hate speech and mis-information campaigns that can have severe consequences in their social development. To prevent these issues, …
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Episode 69 of Local GOODfood+wine is all about Andy's Long Beach, California restaurant called BoredNHungry, named after the Bored Ape NFT he collected not too long before opening the restaurant. And he also shares with us a bit about his new Food Inspired NFT collection called Food Fighters Universe, launched with the mission to help support resta…
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Jennifer Rider and her husband Brad run the premier hotel and restaurant in Esperance, Australia. The hotel is called Comfort Inn Bay of Isles and the 50 seater restaurant is Eljays. They-ve just hired a couple of French chefs whom she scouted in Perth. So, this episode of Local GOODfood+wine is an armchair luxury voyage to summertime Esperance, Au…
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Episode 67: Local GOODfood+wine Season 8 - 12/ 2021 Happy Holidays everyone! This month, we bring you a condensed version of Local GOODfood+wine, in honor of the busy-ness of this season and all its festivities. I have for you in Episode 67 of our podcast an interview with Luisa Ravoyard who is France’s Communications Director for Too Good To Go. I…
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Interview with ISAAA.org 's Dr. Mahaletchumy Arujanan about the potential beneficial impacts of CRISPRcas9 gene editing on the GABA Tomato and other food crops.#climatechange impacts on food crops#nutrititionaldeficiencies#foodpoverty#geneticmodificationQuick commentary by Chef David Chang from his new documentary series, The Next Thing You Eat/ Ri…
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65: Afghanistan Fruit & Veggie Bazaars circa 1968 With Mom - Season 8 Kickoff LGf+w © Paige Donner
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Afghanistan circa 1968Interview with my mother, Annette Donner, on what it was like to live in Afghanistan in 1968 as a young mother and wife to a Fulbright Professor. Shopping at the fruit and vegetable bazaars, tea with local Afghans, dinners at the Embassy, warm Afghan naan bread from Earthen ovensShow notes at http://localfood.wine Leave Questi…
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Castor & Polllux - Please Don’t Feed The Elephants.... To The Parisians Episode 64: Local GOODfood+wine © Paige DonnerThe longer one lives in Paris, the more one realizes how little you really know about the city and its rich history. Take the case of Castor & Pollux. These were two famous elephants who lived at the Jardin d’Acclimatation over in t…
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Episode 63 Local GOODfood+wine podcast Copyright Paige Donner May 2021Soil Regeneration, Blueberries and Black Raspberries from Sunset Valley Organic Farm, OregonNational Poetry MonthHappy Mother's DaySHOW Notes: http://localfood.wine & http;//localfoodandwine.wordpress.comΑπό τον Paige Donner - Host & Producer
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Local GOODfood+wine podcast Episoce 62 Season 7 Segment 1 : Food As MedicineSegment 2 : Food As A Weapon Show Notes: http://localfood.wine & http://localfoodandwine.wordpress.com @localfoodwineHost-Producer Paige Donner Contact: http://paigedonner.infoSee our affiliate websites: Vancouver Food And Wine, Okanagan Food And Wine, Bordeaux Food And Win…
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Episode 61 Local GOODfood+wine French Wine & Music Tasting Playlist Show notes: http://localfoodandwine.wordpress.comhttp://localfood.wine @localfoodwineFrench Wine & Music Playlist I hope you are all enjoying the final days of 2020 and have many good reasons lined up for looking forward to 2021! With that sentiment, here's a drinks playlist. Since…
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Celebrating 400 years of the Mayflower's landing on the shores of America is cause for celebration. To think all that has been accomplished these past 400 years. We have much to be grateful for.Please find in our show note on LocaFood.wine the short video of the Wampanoag Tribe entiteld, We Are Still Here. The tradition of fall harvest feasts actua…
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