Talking France
By The Local France
Talking France is The Local’s weekly podcast where we discuss the big news and talking points in France as well as explore and explain the major issues that impact life in the country. We also answer your essential questions and look ahead at what’s coming up.
In each episode presenter Ben McPartland chats about the most important news and must-know information with The Local France’s Emma Pearson and Emma Albright. They are also frequently joined by John Lichfield, a veteran journalist whose knowledge of French news and politics is second to none, as well as other expert commentators.
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Latest episode
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Will France pay for its role in slavery and why the violence after PSG's triumph?
Plus the key French vocab you need for travel -
How to live without a car in France and are we facing an insufferably hot summer?
And how to say you are sweating like the French -
France frets over contaminated baguettes and how to avoid renovation nightmares
French cinema takes on the country's biggest media baron -
The €16 million French château scam and why 2027 could be a ‘scary’ year in France?
Plus is France set to scrap rent caps and cause a 'social crisis'? -
France's new anti-mosquito measures and where the French go for good food
Plus how to respond to thank you in French -
France takes on Musk and will French airports run out of jet fuel this summer?
Plus are driving rules in £France set for big change? -
France to lose 1.7million children and far right photoshoot causes stir
Plus why one region of France wants independence -
French tax traps you need to avoid and why Paris is divided in two
Will France finally impose new border checks? -
Oil crisis fuels French anger and is France sleepwalking into a far-right presidency?
Plus what's the best way to say hello in French? Salut? coucou? -
The verdict on what the local election results mean for France
Did the French far right really make an historic breakthrough?