Podcast: wheat on the Seine, denim goes home to Nimes, forgotten first woman filmmaker

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Spotlight on France

RFI English

24 episodes

5 days ago

Interested in France? Let us be your ears and eyes on the ground. Hosts Sarah Elzas and Alison Hird introduce you to the people who make France what it is, and who want to change it - to give you a fuller picture of this country at the heart of Europe. Spotlight on France is a podcast, in English, from Radio France International, out Thursdays.

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Podcast: wheat on the Seine, denim goes home to Nimes, forgotten first woman filmmaker

Spotlight on France

31 minutes 32 seconds

2 years ago

Podcast: wheat on the Seine, denim goes home to Nimes, forgotten first woman filmmaker

How Rouen, a city on the Seine, far from the open sea, became France's largest grain port; denim production returns to its place of birth in Nimes; and the story of Alice Guy, the world's first woman director, forgotten by history.