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Le Masque et la Plume (France Inter)

France's oldest culture programme: critics arguing about films, books and plays since 1955.

  • LevelFor advanced
  • PriceFree
  • Made forNative audio
  • Episodes here5 newest

What it is

A weekly panel in which French critics praise and demolish the week's releases in front of a studio audience. It is the best possible source of opinion vocabulary — the language of liking, hating, hedging and being witty about it — and the arguments are entertaining even when you only follow half. Free and weekly. Genuinely hard: four people interrupting each other, heavy irony, literary allusion, no transcripts.

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Le Masque et la Plume (France Inter)
Anne Godard, Amélie Nothomb, Jay McInerney, Claudie Gallay, Thélyson Orélien : que faut-il lire cette semaine ?
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