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Another Challenge.  Six minutes of a very difficult sketch. Email your transcriptions to me at admin@sonsenfrancais.org

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21  June    A short clip where the difficulty is the content, and to some extent, the voice of an old gentleman, Albert Jacquard.

23  June    Here's a nice clip on Michel Serrault, with a good range of voices.

25  June    Thanks to my faithful Canadian visitor for SOS, Terrien en détresse

27  June    For a hot June Sunday afternoon, a clip from a gardening programme, Silence ça pousse.

29  June    Earthy humour from Jean-Marie Bigard

01  July     Let's have an easy start to July with a German film about an Italian policeman dubbed into French Commissaire Brunetti

03  July     Here is the third clip from Pierre Palmade's wonderful television play Le grand restaurant with the beautiful Michèle Laroque

05  July     French sports commentators and American Wrestling. Whatever next ?

07  July     A professor of Sciences Po gets all angry about taking political rumours seriously, on a show which exists to talk about political rumours C'est dans l'air.

09  July     Three more of the old audio exercises brought up to date. This time I managed to decipher more of Laurent Gerra Football gagnant.And we also have Albert Dupontel withLa Pause, as well as the start of Maupassant's Boule de suif

                   I've updated the text of The Challenge from the emails you sent in

11  July     TF1 has started a new series of Secret Story.

13  July     France Gall was one of the 4 idoles dans le vent of this nostalgia documentary

15  July     A hard exercise here. Extract from a French comedy film Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie ?

17  July     France 5 retransmitted a documentary on Françoise Hardy. Pure pleasure...

19  July     I've started a new page Too Hard ! The title is pretty self explanatory. The first post, the Fernand Raynaud sketch Restons Français  I've also put on the humour page here, but without the text

21  July     Another in our French films series - from France 2 Le bonheur est dans le crime. And of course, difficult

22  July     Just a quickie - The version of La Drague performed by Joe Dassin and Guy Bedos.

23  July     An update to the Audio page. Here's Laurent Gerra with Mon Mari René.

25  July     A new page to celebrate a wonderful production of Richard II from Avignon

27  July     Here's a real pleasure. The long interview with Patrick Sébastien, including the Jean-Marie Le Pen sketch

29  July     The popular science programme E=M6 told us how to talk to our children about sex.

 David Archer