Hear the world change with Sophie Larmoyer. Around the world, Europe 1 reporters and correspondents explore and tell the daily life of other cultures, their perception of current events and of our country. Long-format reports and fascinating guests. A sound journey to open the mind and discover the unknown.
Black people in the United States: the divide
Anger and emotion filled the streets of American cities after the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American, who was suffocated by a police officer. A victim of security oppression, the black American community is also the one that is suffering the most from the coronavirus epidemic and the economic crisis that follows from it. But for the first time after the death of a member of this community, blacks and whites walk together. The hope that, perhaps finally, the time for change has come.
Report and decryption by Xavier Yvon , correspondent in the United States
A book in the world
Large sections of literature resonate with this American news. Nicolas Carreau presents a new translation of the mythical novel by Margaret Mitchell, “Gone with the Wind”. Published in 1936, this classic of American literature has just fallen into the public domain. Gallmeister Editions considered that it was urgent to dust off the French translation which dated from 1939. A new translation which required a year of work for Josette Chicheportiche.
" Gone with the Wind " by Margaret Mitchell. New translation by Josette Chicheportiche published by Gallmeister, in bookstores on June 11
First bike race in Vietnam!
It is a cycling race which, once is not custom, found itself in the spotlight. This is the first post-coronavirus bike race that has just ended in Vietnam. A country that has weathered the Covid-19 epidemic very well and is completing its deconfinement. Three weeks of racing and 18 stages all the same, for this HTV Cup scrutinized by the international media. The bicycle is part of the history of Vietnam but on a daily basis, motorcycles have often taken their place.
Decryption of Axel May , sports journalist at Europe 1
Amsterdam, Venice: what tourism after the coronavirus?
Amsterdam and Venice… two magnificent cities in which we like to have a good time. But with the coronavirus crisis and confinement, their inhabitants have tasted the contrast with the excessive tourism in which they were previously immersed. The inhabitants are mobilizing to offer a more balanced tourism. But it is not always easy to combine the protection of one's environment with economic necessities.
Report by Isabelle Ory , special envoy to the Netherlands
The writer Arièle Butaux , Venetian, testifies to her disappointed hope. During the confinement, she told us of her dream of protecting her city from the hordes of tourists. It doesn't seem to be won…
Tribute to the great photographer Roland Michaud
Roland Michaux was a great traveler and a great photographer. For 60 years, with his wife Sabrina, they have traveled the world with a leitmotif: take your time and "see in others that what is better than at home". Olivier Weber, a travel writer himself, pays tribute to Roland Michaud, who died on May 25. It is this man, of great humility, who helped put him on the road to the Orient and especially to Afghanistan, driven by the evocative beauty of these photos.
Extract from the interview with Roland and Sabrina Michaud published in Les Carnets du Monde in June 2015
Tribute from Olivier Weber writer, great reporter. His next novel " The back country " will appear on August 19 at Calmann-Lévy editions
Travel to Autistan
Josef Schovanec , philosopher-traveler and autistic sprinkler shares with us his look on the world, a little different ...
Josef was inspired by the modern modes of communication that have been widely used in recent months. Before the telephone and the internet, how was the human voice transported over long distances? Josef's response is the occasion for a sonorous journey through the Swiss mountains and the Congolese “talking drums”.