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This is where I'm going to list the sites that I find useful/essential to follow each day. In the first section are  links all of which are accompanied by text, ranging from the Journal en français facile to the not at all easy La politique ce matin of Pierre Le Marc on Inter.
 
Note that these references are taken from the winter timetable - September to end June. During the summer French radio snoozes...
 
Site
Link
Comment
RFI Langue francais Journal en francais facile
  Le fait du jour Exercises on an item of news
  Mots de l'actu Excellent little series on words
France-Info Chroniques Some text.
RTL Chroniques Some text
France-Inter Chroniques Three/four per day with text
France-Culture Revue de presse European. With text
Europe-1 Chroniques With text
 
The following are the essential daily chroniques, for me:-

Blogs à part

France Inter
La politique ce matin               France Inter - hard!
La revue de presse  France Inter - hard!
Géopolitique     France Inter
C' est dans le journal  RTL
Le fait politique  RTL
RTL étranger  RTL
The above can (usually) be relied on to offer the text
 

I've been using Podcasts for a few weeks now, so here are the daily favourites:-

Europe 1 Best-of-Chroniques A compilation of about twenty minutes
France-Culture Le portrait du jour Marc Kravetz
France-Culture La chronique Olivier Duhamel
France-Culture La chronique Alain-Gerard Slama
Copy the links to your Ipodder software
 
And now the sites that do not update daily, but contain interesting material with text, or where the text is available.
Site Link Comment
Archivox Archivox French literature extracts & texts
Telerama LecturesClassique French literature extracts & texts
 
Daily Exercises in idiomatic French
I am suggesting the Donjon de Naheulbek for this. Yes, it's a sort of Bande Dessinée in audio, with dwarves and goblins, but the French is very, very argotique, but also very clear. And you get the texts. There are twenty episodes available, and each one will last you a few days.
 

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