Interested in France? Let us be your ears and eyes on the ground. Hosts Sarah Elzas and Alison Hird take you beyond the baguette, to hear from the people who make France what it is, and who want to change it - to give you a fuller picture of this country at the heart of Europe. Spotlight on France is a weekly podcast, in English, from Radio France International, out Thursdays.
Podcast: the tweeting diplomat, eco-friendly pigs, remembering Algerians massacred in Paris
Podcast: Migrants settle into rural life, local French politics on screen and Montgolfière's maiden flight
Podcast: France's gig economy, menstruation taboos and 130 years of the Moulin Rouge
Podcast: Notre Dame fallout, bears in the Pyrenees, and when France colonised New Caledonia
Podcast: Scorched grapes, paying family caregivers, and France's love affair with McDonald's
Podcast: French Communism is not dead, making a baby in Spain, and the dog who discovered Lascaux
Podcast: sheep-shearing, spanking ban and France's obsession with spelling