All Pieces for Sarah Elzas

 
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Each year thousands of people arrive in the US seeking refuge from violence and persecution in their home countries. American Purgatory, an audio d...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
Caption: The instructor Jean-Jacques Sacquepey speaks to a group of beginners , Credit: Sarah Elzas
It is said that you never forget how to ride a bike. But what if you never learned in the first place?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2017
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: 5 pink razors (L) are more expensive than 10 identical blue razors (R) , Credit: georgettesand.org
Items branded for women sometimes cost more than the same items branded for men. It's been dubbed the pink tax, and French women are not happy abou...

Bought by KZYX, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: A French national ID card
France's civil code makes it very difficult to change your name. The one exception is for foreigners at the moment they become French.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:07
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France already has a shortage of bone marrow donors, compared to the rest of Europe, and very few of those registered are a match for non-Europeans.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
Caption: Firefighter Lucille Morel next to an ambulance , Credit: Sarah Elzas
For most of its history, the Paris fire brigade has been all male. One of the force's 400 women talks about the physical challenges, and the need t...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: The blogger, Paf le PAF, and his sons, Credit: paf-le-paf.fr
A stay-at-home dad in France is unusual. And this one blogs!

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Elizabeth Askren Brie conducts the Orchestre Colonne in 2010, Credit: Thomas Bartel
Conducting is a surprisingly male world. Elizabeth Askren Brie has fought sexism throughout her career.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Midwife Nicolas Dutriaux holds a model of a pelvis he uses with patients., Credit: Sarah Elzas
Midwife Nicolas Dutriaux says the gender balance of his profession has lead to its marginalization.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Car mechanics Aurore and Melina at the Only Girls garage, Credit: onlygirls-auto.fr
Car mechanics tend to be male. A Paris-area garage is trying to change that by hiring women to appeal to women.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dominique Zanardi shows a wall of shells he has collected, Credit: Sarah Elzas
Le Tommy, in the heart of the Somme battlefields, is more than a restaurant. It has a museum of WWI objects and life-sized replicas of trenches out...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:55
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Making chocolates in an English-speaking pastry class in Paris. Yum!

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 15, 2014
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Music has been crossing continents for centuries. French ensemble Baroque Nomade explores the interaction between European Baroque music and the cu...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2014
  • Length: 07:38
Caption: Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra rehearsing , Credit: Sarah Elzas
Classical music in the Congo

  • Added: Nov 15, 2014
  • Length: 08:12
Caption: Agnès Navalho in her mobile writing office, Credit: Sarah Elzas
Scribes have been around for as long as writing has existed. Although France has a nearly 100 percent literacy rate, the practice of 'ecrivain publ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 14, 2014
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jérôme Le Breton, notary, Credit: Sarah Elzas
If you buy or sell property in France, get divorced or inherit something, you will have to spend time with a notary. Unlike a notary public, who ta...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Nov 14, 2014
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Antoine Pecqueur, French bassoonist, Credit: Mathieu Sautel
The bassoon, the largest woodwind instrument, has a split identity: most bassoonists play German instruments but France has its own. The instrument...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Nov 14, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Emmanuel Carbonne (L) and Christophe Lesoin (R) in their cheese maturing cellar, Credit: fromagerie-beaufils.com
What’s more French than cheese? Some French cheese shops have a 'cave d’affinage', a maturing cellar, so their cheeses ripen in the best possible c...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2014
  • Length: 03:55
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In the heat of the summer, pastry chefs look ahead to the busy Christmas season

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WTIP, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2009
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 4
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Singing about the reconstruction of Rwanda

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 28, 2007
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 1