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This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about the song Siempre lo Mismo. There’s On This Day, the listener mailbag, great music, and of course, the new quiz question. So click on that little “Listen” arrow above, and join in!

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Hello everyone!

Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday, at 6:15, 6:45, 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.

Fabulous news! We have a shortwave frequency again! It’s 13725 kHz on the 22m band, and you can hear us between 6.00 and 7.00 UT every day. We’ve had reception reports from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Japan, Latvia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US, and although the frequency is “aimed” (or however that works) towards the African continent, give it a try. You never know … and be sure and send us your reception reports. Maybe we can get more time, which would be wonderful.

This week’s quiz: On 4 July, I asked you a question about Alison Hird’s program World Music Matters. On her 25 June show, she talked to Bruno Garcia, also known as Sergent Garcia, about his brand new album Contre Vents et Marées. Alison asked him what themes he explores on the album and Sergent Garcia told her what a couple of the songs are about. One of the songs he talked about was Siempre lo Mismo and I asked you what Garcia said about it.

The answer is: Garcia said the song is about the earth. He told Alison that at the end, the woman you hear speaking is talking about the humanity of rivers.

The winners this week are: RFI Listeners Club member Eyamin Hossain, from Murshidabad, West Bengal, India; Mogire Machuki, the president of the RFI Listeners Club in Kisii, Kenya; Jahangir Alam Manto, the president of the Kaptai RFI Fan Club – the club which won Most Active RFI Club for 2014 – 2015; Sadia Gulshan, a member of the Pak France International Listeners Club – soon to become an official RFI Listeners Club – in Sahiwal, Pakistan, and RFI Listeners Club member Ralf Urbanczyk, from Eisleben, Germany.

Congratulations winners!

This week’s question ... you'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 23 September to enter this week's quiz. The winners will be announced on the 3 October 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:

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Susan Owensby
RFI – The Sound Kitchen
80, rue Camille Desmoulins
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux
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By text … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile 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