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All the original audio files - many of them posted six years ago - have been moved here. They have been converted to video files. When you play them, after an initial 'splash screen', the screen goes blank and you hear the audio. But the blank screen allows me to add the text as sub-titles.

You need two files. (Right) click on the top half of the picture to download the video, and on the lower half to download the subtext file with the extension .srt. Save them to the same directory. Your video player will pick up the subtitles automatically and display them. They are switchable, so the idea is (as always) to listen without the text, then with.

Click (or right-click to download) on the top half of the picture for the video and on the lower half for the subtitle file

Mon Père ce héros Gérard Depardieu	Le zizi tout dur Laurent Baffie	Le certificat d'études from Céline's great novel Mort à crédit Read by Arletty	Tizenfants A Swiftian satire on Nicolas Sarkozy from when he was Minister of the Interior	Tout va bien, Madame la Marquise The famous patter song
A scene from the great film with Jacques Villeret and Thierry Lhermitte	One of Martin Winckler's best short stories le Camion de Noël	A scene from the play La leçon, read by Ionesco himself	A favourite this. A naughty number from Laurent Gerra	Alphonse Daudet's lovely prose-poem Le sous-prefet. Sadly, the very last word is missing from the audio
From Arte Radio Lettre d'un proviseur	The companion piece Lettre d'un proprio - very funny	Tout sur Sarkozy, and un pleasant little song about my hero	Baffie répondeur Another sketch from Laurent Baffie - on telephone sales	La folle de Chaillot From the play by Jean Giraudoux
Le remplacant If Martin Winckler is as good a doctor as he is a short story writer ...	Vol de nuit The novel of Saint-Exupery	This is a favourite CD of mine. L'Etranger, read by Camus himself	I can no longer remember where La maison Periglioni came from. I think it is Elie Semoun. Very, very funny	Here is the second part of Chapter 1 of the novel
The great, great Raymond Devos gives us a lesson in French grammar as he conjugates the verb ouïr	This short sketch of Laurent Gerra, a parody of Qui veut gagner des millions ? is one of my all-time favourites	The third part of L'étranger. After listening to this you will always hear the voice of Camus when you read the book !	About five years ago I found this on a site called Les accents des Français. The picture is of Sylvie Joly, whose personage Christine is exactly this sort of lady	About the same time I was watching Drucker's Vivement Dimanche when he announced that Richard Bohringer would recite a poem. I pressed the Record button, and to my amazement captured an extract from the Ballad of Reading Gaol - in French ! Here is the English
Here is Laurent Baffie again with a vulgar but funny sketch The Greasy Spoon	And the next installment of L'étranger: A beautiful passage, this	From Les Pensées de Pascal. I include this to demonstrate how, even if the voice is clear, the content can make comprehension difficult	This is an extract from a lovely audio book based on Tristan et Iseut de Chrétien sz Troyes, one of the earliest of French writers.	Here is the beginning of Boule de suif, the short story of Guy de Maupassant
Albert Dupontel is what the Americans call a 'dead-pan' comedian. Here he is with La Pause (He is also the guy straining to hear on our logo)	In the year of the World Cup and the scandals which beset the French team, we can't do better than revisit Laurent Gerra and Football gagnant.	Here is Laurent Gerra again with Mon Mari René, a vicious imitation of Céline Dion. I was able to add a bit more to this transcription - but still some holes and inaccuracies. One day...	The last of our audio extracts - and a classic, here is a radio broadcast of Pierre Dac, delivering a lecture - in beautiful French mixed with nonsense words - on the astonishing invention that was the Schmilblick. Enjoy!

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