Perspective

Mar 13 2025 24 ep. 8 mins 58

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Every morning, FRANCE 24 speaks to a key business, social or cultural player, or a leading voice in the field of humanitarian action, sport or science. From Monday to Thursday at 9:35am Paris time.

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Saying goodbye to Brazil through the lenses of journalist Carolina Sá

Mar 13 2025 10 mins

It is a film that really pulls at your heartstrings, showing the life of an incredible woman, with a fascinating history as she struggles to leave her home in Brazil to head to a new life in Portugal. The film, shot and produced by her granddaughter – Carolina Sá, a Portuguese-Brazilian journalist and podcast director. The film, her first, translates in English as “To Say Good

Author Charlie English on the best-kept secret of the cold war

Mar 11 2025 8 mins

It's a book that tells the astonishing story of the books that were smuggled across the Iron curtain during and after the Second World War. Described by the Observer as a “gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment”, "The CIA book Club – the best kept secret of the cold war" recounts the tale of how millions of books made it across the longest and most

Paris-based artist Jessie Kanelos Weiner on the 'art of seeing'

Mar 10 2025 7 mins

A Parisian artist has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how artists need to use their art as a form of self-expression. Jessie Kanelos Weiner encourages people in her new book – “Thinking in Watercolor: A Daily Practice to Unlock Your Creativity & Discover Your Inner Artist” – to adapt their techniques to share their personal experiences. Weiner says that anyone can take up art, ad

‘See what she sees’: Women's rights, gender equality and rethinking masculinity

Mar 06 2025 8 mins

This weekend sees International Women’s Day with messages on women's rights, equality and empowerment. On March 8, women are encouraged to shout out “women’s rights are human rights!” But what roles can men play on all this? In Perspective, we spoke to Daniel Guinness, co-founder and managing director of Beyond Equality, an organisation based in London that aims to engage m

Activist and survivor Fatou Baldeh on fighting to eradicate female genital mutilation

Mar 05 2025 8 mins

A leading women's rights campaigner has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how she was subjected to female genital mutilation at the age of just seven in her home country of The Gambia. Fatou Baldeh explained that although the procedure was a horrific personal experience, it was seen as the norm when she was growing up. But later, when studying in Scotland, she became more aware of what had

'Deviants': Author Santanu Bhattacharya explores attitudes towards homosexuality in India

Mar 04 2025 7 mins

The author of a new book that explores the lives of three gay men through different generations in India has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how attitudes to homosexuality have changed in his home country. Santanu Bhattacharya is the author of "Deviants", which follows the lives of the men from the same family as they grow up in the mid-1970s, 1990s and today, and how gay men are perceiv

'From Ground Zero': Filmmaker Rashid Masharawi on bringing Palestinian stories to life

Feb 27 2025 9 mins

A celebrated Palestinian filmmaker who was born and brought up in Gaza has told FRANCE 24 that he and his colleagues just want to share their stories through art. Rashid Masharawi has put together a film made up of 22 individual short projects filmed and put together in Gaza amid the Israeli bombings since the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023. "From Ground Zero" tells the stori

American stand-up comedian Sarah Donnelly on making light of her life in Paris

Feb 26 2025 9 mins

As an American living in Paris, "the jokes are writing themselves". That's the sentiment from stand-up comedian Sarah Donnelly, whose act is taking the Anglophone comedy circuit by storm in Paris. She has lived in Paris for 12 years and has a French husband and children. Her comedy takes the mickey out of all the obstacles she has come up against during her life in France. Her firs

Humanitarian crisis in Haiti: 'Population is on the brink of starvation,' charity says

Feb 25 2025 9 mins

The situation in Haiti is now an "unprecedented humanitarian crisis" with the "population on the brink of starvation". That's according to the charity ActionAid, which says that nine out of 10 people there now go all day without eating. It also says that 99 percent of all families in Haiti go without meals, sometimes for days at a time. In Perspective, we spoke to ActionAid's Haiti

Three years on: The impact of war on Ukraine's children

Feb 24 2025 6 mins

On the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, an expert has spoken to us from Kyiv about the impact of the war on children. In the spring of last year, UNICEF reported that nearly 2,000 children had been killed or injured in the conflict. That figure does not take into account those who have lost family members or friends. Mykola Kuleba, founder of the NGO Sa