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The Orsay Museum is well known for its extensive collection of turn-of-the-century art, also called la Belle Epoque, around 1900, among which is Impressionnism. A number of those impressionists actually started making a few francs by working in … advertising !

The museum’s current temporary exhibition focusses on the billboards and newspaper ads produced by Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec and many others in Paris between 1850 and 1910, and how they changed the city’s landscape. Whether they advertised a political party or a cabaret show, the whole city was covered in them.

The fact that they were all painted by hand make them real pieces of art, and are treated as such by the curators. They also reveal much about the era, good or bad, such as the open racism and antisemitism that were existing back then in the French society.

Of course they are written in French, but the translations and explainations provided make this exhibition fascinating and accessible. Well worth a visit.

Dear volunteers, here are the current available positions at WRP. You can be a candidate for one or several of these. Positions must be retained for 6 months after the training. Please email me using contact @ worldradio . fr to schedule a training session.

Volunteer Coordinator : This position is crucial within WRP. It involves welcoming, training, but also motivating new volunteers, assigning them to teams and assessing work and respect of deadlines. You report to David

Show Host/Producer : Creation of content in the form of a 25 minute show. Weekly, bi-weekly or Monthly.

Feature Host/Producer : Creation of content in the form of a 2-5 minute feature. Ideally Weekly.

Community News Producer/Host: Collection, editing and recording of one minute long ads helping not-for-profit organizations advertise their actions or events (ex. SOS Helpline, Cancer Support France, Wise, American Church of Paris, English in Nice, etc…)

The French Sports Dispatch Producer/Host: The volunteer will produce a weekly sports update column (audio and written) to be broadcast / published online on Friday night (aired several times on Saturday and Sunday each week).

Website Editor : This is an editorial position at the heart of our team. Your job is to collect written articles, either linked to a show or not, to be published on our Journal. We can also ask you to update a show’s page with information sent to you by the show’s producer so that listeners can find information mentioned during the show (links, names, locations…)

Podcast Editor : This is a position specific to our RSS platform. Your job is to select shows produced by our volunteers and upload them along with written descriptions and graphics to RSS.com. This way, listeners who have subscribed to our “Best of WRP” Podcast channel will receive a sample of our shows to their devices. It’s a way for our shows to be discovered by people who don’t always listen to the radio from the airwaves. Our most popular shows also have their dedicated podcast channels (Lost in Frenchlation, Parentalité, Cups and Dishes…), which you will also be asked to update.

Event coordinator : Someone who is willing to organise events for WRP, which could be for its staff (anniversary parties…) or for shows (public recordings) or for fundraising purposes.

Social Media Manager : someone who will promote our shows and events on instagram.

The RER B train is expected to go under track renovation on a number of weeknights and weekends this Spring. There will be replacement bus services from Aulnay to CDG and the RER B will depart from ground level platforms at Gare du Nord on certain weekends.

If you don’t want to go through this bus hassle, then hop on other transportation options, such as the CDG Bus from Opera Garnier. Remember there is a fixed flat rate to the airport on regular taxis, which is around 60 euros. The 2€50 RER B + Bus option is obviously much more economical, particularly now that regular RER B price to CDG is 13€.

So on which days should you be allowing more time to the airport. Here is the full list.

WEEKNIGHTS: Service is suspended shortly after 10pm, until end of April, except most weekends.

WEEKENDS: All day on March 29 (trains go to the airport, but fewer and from the upper platforms at Gare du Nord). Not train at all all day on April 19, 20, 21, May 3 and May 4.

You can also use RER D to Goussainville and use a bus or Uber/Bolt/Heetch to reach the nearby airport.

If you head to the Orly Airport on line 14, you will also face closures on most nights after 10pm, and all day on April 5 & 6, May 30 & 31, June 15 & 29, and August 4 to 8.

World Radio Paris has joined the acclaimed radio distribution platform RADIOPLAYER France. This cross media service allows listeners to tune in on phones, TVs, and cars through RadioPlayer apps.

One of the most useful feature offered by RadioPlayer is the continuous playback in cars combining DAB+ reception from the airwaves and the IP internet streaming. This means that listeners never loose the signal, even when driving in a tunnel or underground carpark. This technology is called Hybrid Radio.

You can download the RadioPlayer app from the AppStore and PlayStore.

Each year we ask our listeners to contribute to our budget for next year. To operate, WRP needs about 30,000 euros each year. We receive a government grant to operate, like all community radio stations in France, covering about a third of that budget. We need our listeners to send financial contributions to cover the rest of the funding needs.

We are asking you to please click on the paypal link (at the bottom of this page) and donate whatever you can to our community station. With each donation over 60 euros we will send you a tax deduction form (you can deduct 60% of your donation from your 2025 income tax in France).

This year, WRP particularly needs your help. We are having a hard time reaching our donation goals and really count on you. We are about 2,000 euros short and need to raise this much before Dec 31st.

Many thanks !

From now on, all of our science oriented radio shows are broadcast on Sundays, from 6 to 10pm.

Radio Lab, Quirks & Quarks, Explorations, and Big Picture Science will satisfy your scientific curiosity each week.

Quirks & Quarks is the award-winning radio science program of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The program is heard by a national audience in Canada of nearly 800,000 people, and by thousands more around the world on our weekly podcast.

For the past 40 years, Quirks & Quarks has brought its listeners to the cutting edge of scientific inquiry. Every week, the program presents the people behind the latest discoveries in the physical and natural sciences, from the smallest sub-atomic particle to the largest objects in the sky and everything in between. The program also examines the political, social, environmental and ethical implications of new developments in science and technology. Quirks & Quarks is a program for people fascinated by the world above, below and around them. And you don’t need a PhD to enjoy it.

Join host Bob McDonald each week to find out the latest in science, technology, medicine and the environment. We cover every aspect of science, from the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom … and everything in between. Sundays at 7pm on WRP.