A short feature from Radio France International’s English service. It went out in August, just after Barack Obama’s nomination. We learn that French people think of Barack Obama (correctly) as mixed-race and not black. But we also learn that as they’ve got to know Obama they’ve started to call him ‘black’ in response to his presentation in the US media (MP3).
bookmarks by: delicious.comA blog of Radio 4. Not about Radio 4 but of it. We point to the bits we like, the bits you might have missed, the bits that someone might have sneakily recorded. Other speech radio from around the world will no doubt find its way here too.
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