THE SOUND KITCHEN

This week on The Sound Kitchen, there’s a special treat: musical favourites from RFI English journalists Rosslyn Hyams and Laura Angela Bagnetto. Just click on the arrow in the photo and enjoy! Hello everyone! Welcome to The Sound Kitchen weekly podcast, published every Saturday. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you’ve grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and listen every week. Send me your music requests! I’ll make programs of your favorite music when I can’t be in the kitchen to cook something new up for you … write to me at  thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr For our DX enthusiast and shortwave listener friends: I am sad to announce we no longer have a shortwave frequency; we have severe budget constraints which no longer permit us to broadcast via shortwave. "Paris Live", our afternoon news program, is on-the-air Monday – Friday, from 13:00 to 14:00 UTC/GMT. You can hear "Paris Live" on our website, rfienglish.com, or on  World Radio Network. For North America: WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 05:00 to 05:59, from 09:00 to 09:59 and from 15:00 to 15h59 UTC/GMT. For Africa and Asia: WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 05:00 to 05:59, from 09:00 to 09:59 and from 15:00 to 15h59 UTC/GMT. For Europe: WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 06:00 to 06:50, from 11:00 to 11:59 and from 19:00 to 19:59 UTC/GMT. In Paris, you can hear us on World Radio Paris on DAB+, Monday to Friday from 16:00 to 16:59 UTC/GMT. To listen to our features (now podcasts only), go to our website and click on the three horizontal bars on the top right, choose Listen to RFI / Features, and you’ve got ‘em ! You can either listen directly, or subscribe and receive them directly on your mobile phone. Teachers, take note! I save postcards and stamps from all over the world to send to you for your students. If you would like stamps and postcards for your students, just write and let me know. The address is english.service@rfi.fr Did you know there’s an RFI English newsletter? If you subscribe, you'll receive our newsletter every day. Just click on Newsletters, fill out the form, and you'll stay up-to-date with RFI English. RFI Clubs: Be sure to always include Audrey Iattoni (audrey.iattoni@rfi.fr) and Chrystelle Nammour (chrystelle.nammour@rfi.fr) from our Listener Relations department on all your RFI Club correspondence. Remember to copy me (thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr) when you write them so that I know what is going on, too. N.B. You do not need to send them your quiz answers! Email overload! We’ve made a Facebook page just for you, the RFI English Clubs. It is a closed group, so when you apply to join, be sure you include the name of your RFI Club and your membership number. Everyone can look at it, but only members of the group can post on it. If you haven’t yet asked to join the group, go to the Facebook link above and fill out the questionnaire!!!!! (if you do not answer the questions, I click “decline”). This week’s quiz: The Sound Kitchen is taking a short break. The quiz will be back 21 December. Here’s the music you heard on this week’s program: “Life on Mars?” by David Bowie; “Weeping Willow” by Alton Ellis, and “Hang on Little Tomato” by Patrick Abbey, China Forbes and Thomas Lauderdale, performed by Pink Martini. Do you have a musical request? Send it to thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr To find out how you can win a special Sound Kitchen prize, click here To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club, click here  

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the Nobel prizes. There’s “On This Day”, the Sound Kitchen mail bag, listener news, great music – and of course, the new quiz question. Just click on the arrow above and enjoy! Hello everyone! Welcome to The Sound Kitchen weekly podcast, published every Saturday. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you’ve grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and listen every week. Send me your music requests! I’ll make programs of your favourite music when I can’t be in the kitchen to cook something up new for you … write to me at  thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr For our DX enthusiast and shortwave listener friends: I am sad to announce we no longer have a shortwave frequency; we have severe budget constraints which no longer permit us to broadcast via shortwave. "Paris Live", our afternoon news program, is on-the-air Monday – Friday, from 13:00 to 14:00 UTC/GMT. You can hear "Paris Live" on our website, rfienglish.com, or on  World Radio Network. For North America: WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 05:00 to 05:59, from 09:00 to 09:59 and from 15:00 to 15h59 UTC/GMT. For Africa and Asia: WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 05:00 to 05:59, from 09:00 to 09:59 and from 15:00 to 15h59 UTC/GMT. For Europe: WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 06:00 to 06:50, from 11:00 to 11:59 and from 19:00 to 19:59 UTC/GMT. In Paris, you can hear us on World Radio Paris on DAB+, Monday to Friday from 16:00 to 16:59. To listen to our features (now podcasts only), go to our website and click on the three horizontal bars on the top right, choose Listen to RFI / Features, and you’ve got ‘em ! You can either listen directly, or subscribe and receive them directly on your mobile phone. Teachers, take note! I save postcards and stamps from all over the world to send to you for your students. If you would like stamps and postcards for your students, just write and let me know. The address is english.service@rfi.fr Did you know there’s an RFI English newsletter? If you subscribe, you'll receive our newsletter every day. Just click on Newsletters, fill out the form, and you'll stay up-to-date with RFI English. RFI Clubs: Be sure to always include Audrey Iattoni (audrey.iattoni@rfi.fr) and Chrystelle Nammour (chrystelle.nammour@rfi.fr) from our Listener Relations department on all your RFI Club correspondence. Remember to copy me (thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr) when you write them so that I know what is going on, too. N.B. You do not need to send them your quiz answers! Email overload! We’ve made a Facebook page just for you, the RFI English Clubs. It is a closed group, so when you apply to join, be sure you include the name of your RFI Club and your membership number. Everyone can look at it, but only members of the group can post on it. If you haven’t yet asked to join the group, go to the Facebook link above and fill out the questionnaire!!!!! (if you do not answer the questions, I click “decline”). This week’s quiz: On 12October, the 2019 Nobel Prizes had been announced, and I asked you to send in the names of the people who won the 2019 literature and peace prizes, and the name of the person who won the literature prize for 2018 (it was awarded this year due to some rather serious problems on the literature committee last year). You were also to tell me why the three laureates were chosen. The answer is: for the Nobel Peace Prize: Abiy Ahmed Ali, “for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.” Abiy Ahmed Ali is currently the prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, a post to which he was elected in 2018. A former army intelligence officer, since becoming prime minister Abiy has launched a wide programme of political and economic reforms, and worked to broker peace deals in Eritrea, South Sudan, and a transition agreement in the Republic of the Sudan – and of course, the reason for his 2019 Nobel Peace Prize: his work in ending the 20-year post-war territorial stalemate between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Abiy Ahmed Ali is 42 years old. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature went to the Austrian-born writer Peter Handke “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.” It was a controversial choice, and was received mostly negatively in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Croatia, due to Handke’s position on the Yugoslav Wars and his support for Slobodan Milošević.  PEN America also had a negative opinion, expressing "deep regret". Funny, isn’t it? In 2014, Handke called for the Nobel Prize in Literature to be abolished - he called it a "circus", but he did accept the prize, and the prize money. He is 76 years old. The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature went to the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopaedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.” In 2018 she also won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights; she is particularly noted for the mythical tone of her writing.  Olga Tokarczuk is 57 years old. The winners are: Muhammad Shamim S - the president of the RFI Golden Eagles Club in Keralam State India, and RFI Listeners Club members Nasyr Muhammad from Katsina State, Nigeria, Arne Timm from Harjumaa, Estonia, and Jayanta Chakrabarty from New Delhi, India. Last but not least: Li Ming from Maanshan City, China. Congratulations winners! Listeners, you do know that even if you are NOT a member of an official RFI Club or a member of the general RFI Listeners Club, you can still enter the quizzes and win? So don’t be shy! Send in your quiz answers! Here’s the music you heard on this week’s program: “Paris, Paris” by Augustin Lara and Georges Tabet, sung by Josephine Baker; “Kasalèfkut Hulu” by Mulatu Astatke, performed by Mulatu Astatke and his ensemble; “The Flight of the Bumblebee” by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov; Piano sonata number 10 in C major, K.330, (allegro moderato) by Mozart, performed by pianist Vladimir Horowitz, and “Mailaika” by Adam Salim, sung by Angelique Kidjo with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestre conducted by Gast Waltzing. Do you have a musical request? Send it to thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr This week’s question ... You'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 27 January to enter this week's quiz; the winners will be announced on the 1 February podcast. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number. Send your answers to: english.service@rfi.fr or Susan OwensbyRFI – The Sound Kitchen80, rue Camille Desmoulins92130 Issy-les-MoulineauxFrance or By text … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile 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. To find out how you can win a special Sound Kitchen prize, click here To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club, click here  

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about Jacques Chirac’s years in French politics. There’s Boris Karloff, jukebox memories, and birthday music for Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. And of course, there’s the new quiz question. Just click on the arrow above and enjoy! Hello everyone! Welcome to The Sound Kitchen weekly podcast, published every Saturday. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you’ve grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and listen every week. Send me your music requests! I’ll make programs of your favorite music when I can’t be in the kitchen to cook something up new for you … write to me at  thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr For our DX enthusiast and shortwave listener friends: I am sad to announce we no longer have a shortwave frequency; we have severe budget constraints which no longer permit us to broadcast via shortwave. "Paris Live", our afternoon news program, is on-the-air Monday – Friday, from 13:00 to 14:00 UTC/GMT. You can hear "Paris Live" on our website, rfienglish.com, or on  World Radio Network. For North America: WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 05:00 to 05:59, from 09:00 to 09:59 and from 15:00 to 15h59 UTC/GMT. For Africa and Asia: WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 05:00 to 05:59, from 09:00 to 09:59 and from 15:00 to 15h59 UTC/GMT. For Europe: WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 06:00 to 06:50, from 11:00 to 11:59 and from 19:00 to 19:59 UTC/GMT. In Paris, you can hear us on World Radio Paris on DAB+, Monday to Friday from 16:00 to 16:59. To listen to our features (now podcasts only), go to our website and click on the three horizontal bars on the top right, and there they are!  You can either listen directly, or subscribe and receive them directly on your mobile phone. Teachers, take note! I save postcards and stamps from all over the world to send to you for your students. If you would like stamps and postcards for your students, just write and let me know. The address is english.service@rfi.fr Did you know there’s an RFI English newsletter? If you subscribe, you'll receive our newsletter every day. Just click on Newsletters, fill out the form, and you'll stay up-to-date with RFI English. RFI Clubs: Be sure to always include Audrey Iattoni (audrey.iattoni@rfi.fr) and Chrystelle Nammour (chrystelle.nammour@rfi.fr) from our Listener Relations department on all your RFI Club correspondence. Remember to copy me (thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr) when you write them so that I know what is going on, too. N.B. You do not need to send them your quiz answers! Email overload! We’ve made a Facebook page just for you, the RFI English Clubs. It is a closed group, so when you apply to join, be sure you include the name of your RFI Club and your membership number. Everyone can look at it, but only members of the group can post on it. If you haven’t yet asked to join the group, go to the Facebook link above and fill out the questionnaire!!!!! (if you do not answer the questions, I click “decline”). This week’s quiz: On 5October, I asked you a question about France’s former president, Jacques Chirac. He died on 26September. Jacques Chirac was at the center of French politics for over 50 years: his first political appointment was in 1962, when then Prime Minister (who was later elected president) Georges Pompidou appointed Chirac head of his personal staff. Chirac went on to become prime minister himself, not once, but twice, and he was elected president twice as well. You were to send me the dates he served as prime minister, and the dates he served as president. The answer is: Jacques Chirac served as France’s prime minister from 1974 through 1976 under President Giscard d’Estaing, and again from 1986 through 1988 under President François Mitterrand. He was elected president for the first time in 1995 and served until 2002, and was re-elected in 2002; his term ended in 2007. You may have noted that Chirac’s first presidential term lasted seven years, while his second lasted only five. That’s because Chirac held a referendum in 2000 for a constitutional amendment to shorten the length of the presidential term from seven to five years. As you can see, it passed: French presidents are now elected for five years, and they may only run for re-election once. The winners are: The Bain family from Chhattisgarh, India. They form the Pariwer Bandhu SWL Club, and they always send their answers by good old-fashioned regular mail.  The Pariwer Bandhu SWL Club is made up of Mrs Fulmala Bain, Dr Deepa Bain, Mr Anand Mohan Bain, Miss Sapna Bain, Miss Tapsi Bain, Miss Reepa Bain, and Miss Sutpa Bain. Congratulations winners! Listeners, you do know that even if you are NOT a member of an official RFI Club or a member of the general RFI Listeners Club, you can still enter the quizzes and win? So don’t be shy! Send in your quiz answers! Here’s the music you heard on this week’s program: “Juke Box Baby” by Joe and Noel Sherman, sung by Perry Como; “Sous le Ciel de Paris” by Hubert Giraud and Jean Dréjac; “The Flight of the Bumblebee” by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and “Liberian Girl” by Michael Jackson. Do you have a musical request? Send it to thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr This week’s question ... You'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 20 January to enter this week's quiz; the winners will be announced on the 25 January podcast. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number. Send your answers to: english.service@rfi.fr or Susan OwensbyRFI – The Sound Kitchen80, rue Camille Desmoulins92130 Issy-les-MoulineauxFrance or By text … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile 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. To find out how you can win a special Sound Kitchen prize, click here To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club, click here  

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about Greta Thunberg’s complaint at the UN. You’ll meet Mary Margaret McBride, a radio star in 1940’s America, there's listener news, great music, and of course, the new quiz question. Just click on the arrow in the photo and enjoy! Hello everyone! Welcome to The Sound Kitchen weekly podcast, published every Saturday. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you’ve grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and listen every week. Send me your music requests! I’ll make programs of your favorite music when I can’t be in the kitchen to cook something up new for you … write to me at  thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr For our DX enthusiast and shortwave listener friends: I am sad to announce we no longer have a shortwave frequency; we have severe budget constraints which no longer permit us to broadcast via shortwave. "Paris Live", our afternoon news program, is on-the-air Monday – Friday, from 13:00 to 14:00 UTC/GMT. You can hear "Paris Live" on our website, rfienglish.com, or on  World Radio Network. For North America: WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 05:00 to 05:59, from 09:00 to 09:59 and from 15:00 to 15h59 UTC/GMT. For Africa and Asia: WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 05:00 to 05:59, from 09:00 to 09:59 and from 15:00 to 15h59 UTC/GMT. For Europe: WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 06:00 to 06:50, from 11:00 to 11:59 and from 19:00 to 19:59 UTC/GMT. In Paris, you can hear us on World Radio Paris on DAB+, Monday to Friday from 16:00 to 16:59 and from 21:00-21:59 UTC/GMT. To listen to our features, go to our website and click on “Features”. You’ll see all of our features (now podcasts only). You can either listen directly, or subscribe and receive them directly on your mobile phone. Don’t give up on us! Teachers, take note! I save postcards and stamps from all over the world to send to you for your students. If you would like stamps and postcards for your students, just write and let me know. The address is english.service@rfi.fr Did you know there’s an RFI English newsletter? If you subscribe, you'll receive our newsletter every day. Just click on Newsletters, fill out the form, and you'll stay up-to-date with RFI English. RFI Clubs: Be sure to always include Audrey Iattoni (audrey.iattoni@rfi.fr) and Chrystelle Nammour (chrystelle.nammour@rfi.fr) from our Listener Relations department on all your RFI Club correspondence. Remember to copy me (thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr) when you write them so that I know what is going on, too. N.B. You do not need to send them your quiz answers! Email overload! We’ve made a Facebook page just for you, the RFI English Clubs. It is a closed group, so when you apply to join, be sure you include the name of your RFI Club and your membership number. Everyone can look at it, but only members of the group can post on it. If you haven’t yet asked to join the group, go to the Facebook link above and fill out the questionnaire!!!!! (if you do not answer the questions, I click “decline”). This week’s quiz: On 28September, I asked you a question about Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old environmental campaigner from Sweden. Greta Thunberg, as you know, is the spark who lit the match for youth activism on climate change around the globe. She was in New York for the climate change march right before the UN’s climate change conference on 23September, at which she delivered a fiery speech condemning the nations for not doing enough. She, along with 15 other petitioners from 12 different countries, filed a formal complaint at the UN against five countries. I asked you to tell me which five countries were targeted in that complaint - and I asked you to tell me how they did it, that is, which convention they accuse the five countries of not upholding. The answer is: Brazil, France, Germany, Argentina, and Turkey, some of the world's biggest greenhouse-gas emitters. Thunberg and her peers filed the complaint under the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which stipulates a set of inalienable rights for all children worldwide, including to life, health, and peace. The complaint alleges that accelerating climate change puts those rights at risk. But why not the US and China, the two countries which produce the most greenhouse-gas emissions in the world? Because the US and China did not sign the section of the treaty that allows children to seek justice for potential violations, and the five countries noted did. The winners are: Mehran Khan Laghari from Sindh, Pakistan; Waheed Nobi from Rangpur, Bangladesh; Alomgir Hossen, a member of the Shetu RFI Listeners Club from Naogaon, Bangladesh; Nafisa Khatun, the president of the RFI Mahila Shrota Sangha Club in Hariharpara, India, and RFI Listeners Club member Samir Mukhopadhyay from Kolkat, India. Congratulations winners! Listeners, you do know that even if you are NOT a member of an official RFI Club or a member of the general RFI Listeners Club, you can still enter the quizzes and win? So don’t be shy! Send in your quiz answers! Here’s the music you heard on this week’s program: “Javanaise” from the Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio by Claude Bolling, with flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal; “The Moldau” from Ma Vlast by Bedrich Smetana, performed by the Gimnazija Kranj Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Nejc Bečan; “The Flight of the Bumblebee” by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and “Mayowa” by Layori. Do you have a musical request? Send it to thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr This week’s question ... You'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 6 January to enter this week's quiz; the winners will be announced on the 11 January podcast. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number. Send your answers to: english.service@rfi.fr or Susan OwensbyRFI – The Sound Kitchen80, rue Camille Desmoulins92130 Issy-les-MoulineauxFrance or By text … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile 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. To find out how you can win a special Sound Kitchen prize, click here To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club, click here  

This week on The Sound Kitchen, there’s a special treat: musical favourites from RFI English journalists Alison Hird, Jan van der Made, and Christina Okella. Just click on the arrow in the photo above and enjoy! Hello everyone! Welcome to The Sound Kitchen weekly podcast, published every Saturday. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you’ve grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and listen every week. Send me your music requests! I’ll make programs of your favorite music when I can’t be in the kitchen to cook something new up for you … write to me at  thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr For our DX enthusiast and shortwave listener friends: I am sad to announce we no longer have a shortwave frequency; we have severe budget constraints which no longer permit us to broadcast via shortwave. "Paris Live", our afternoon news program, is on-the-air Monday – Friday, from 13:00 to 14:00 UTC/GMT. You can hear "Paris Live" on our website, rfienglish.com, or on  World Radio Network. For North America: WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 05:00 to 05:59, from 09:00 to 09:59 and from 15:00 to 15h59 UTC/GMT. For Africa and Asia: WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 05:00 to 05:59, from 09:00 to 09:59 and from 15:00 to 15h59 UTC/GMT. For Europe: WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 06:00 to 06:50, from 11:00 to 11:59 and from 19:00 to 19:59 UTC/GMT. In Paris, you can hear us on World Radio Paris on DAB+, Monday to Friday from 16:00 to 16:59 and from 21:00-21:59 UTC/GMT. To listen to our features, go to our website and click on “Features”. You’ll see all of our features (now podcasts only). You can either listen directly, or subscribe and receive them directly on your mobile phone. Don’t give up on us! Teachers, take note! I save postcards and stamps from all over the world to send to you for your students. If you would like stamps and postcards for your students, just write and let me know. The address is english.service@rfi.fr Did you know there’s an RFI English newsletter? If you subscribe, you'll receive our newsletter every day. Just click on Newsletters, fill out the form, and you'll stay up-to-date with RFI English. RFI Clubs: Be sure to always include Audrey Iattoni (audrey.iattoni@rfi.fr) and Chrystelle Nammour (chrystelle.nammour@rfi.fr) from our Listener Relations department on all your RFI Club correspondence. Remember to copy me (thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr) when you write them so that I know what is going on, too. N.B. You do not need to send them your quiz answers! Email overload! We’ve made a Facebook page just for you, the RFI English Clubs. It is a closed group, so when you apply to join, be sure you include the name of your RFI Club and your membership number. Everyone can look at it, but only members of the group can post on it. If you haven’t yet asked to join the group, go to the Facebook link above and fill out the questionnaire!!!!! (if you do not answer the questions, I click “decline”). This week’s quiz: The Sound Kitchen is taking a short break. The quiz will be back next week, 16 November. Here’s the music you heard on this week’s program: “Feelin’ good” by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, sung by Nina Simone;  “Coyote”, written and sung by Joni Mitchell; Beethoven: the rondo from the “Pathetique” piano sonata no 8 in c minor, op 13, performed by pianist Alfred Brendel; “These are a few of my favorite things” from the musical The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, sung by Julie Andrews; and "Buona sera, mio signore" from Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Giacomo Rossini.    Do you have a musical request? Send it to thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr To find out how you can win a special Sound Kitchen prize, click here To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club, click here