Birdsong from east Africa

Beauty and birdsong on the border between Rwanda and Uganda are delivered to The Sound Kitchen this week in the luggage of RFI’s Sarah Elzas. 

David Franklin/Getty Images/A Terrade

Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday, at our new times: 6:10, 14:45 and 16:45 universal time. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, On This Day, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and tune in every Saturday.

This week’s quiz answer: In March, Susan Owensby asked which three parties came out on top in the first round of local (departmental) elections held on 21 March here in France.

The answer is: The UMP, the Front National (or National Front) and the Socialist Party.

The winners this week are: Ms Rehsa Prakash, Kathmandu, Nepal; Kinkoh Ignatius Nfon from Bamenda, Cameroon; Mozifur Rahman, from Sylhet, Bangladesh; Subhankar Basak, from Burdwan, West Bengal, India and Shahzad Shabbir from Sahiwal, Pakistan.
 

Congratulations, winners!

This week’s question... you'll have to listen to the show to take part! You have until 25 May to enter this week's quiz. The winners will be announced on the 30 May program. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer … and, if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

Send your answers to:

[e-mail]

or

To our new mailing address:
Susan Owensby
RFI – The Sound Kitchen
80, rue Camille Desmoulins
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux
France

or

By text message … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen cell phone !!!!
Dial your country’s international access code, or “ +”, then 33 6 31 12 96 82. Don’t forget to include your mailing address in your text – and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

To find out how you can win an RFI Radio, wireless computer mouse, or Mp3 player, click here:

http://www.english.rfi.fr/culture/20141218-sound-kitchen-essay-contests

To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club, click here:

http://www.english.rfi.fr/culture/20141218-how-form-official-rfi-listeners-club