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International Human Rights Day, effigy burning, and your letters

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This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about Guy Fawkes Day. There’s the listener mailbag, some great music, and of course … the quiz. Just click on the arrow in the photo and enjoy!

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This week’s quiz: On 5 November, it was Guy Fawkes Day in Britain. I asked you to write in and tell me who Guy Fawkes was, and how Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated in Britain.

The answer is: Guy Fawkes was a member of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, a failed conspiracy by a group of English Roman Catholics to assassinate the Protestant King James I and replace him with a Roman Catholic head of state. They planned on blowing up the House of Lords while King James was inside. Guy Fawkes’ job was to guard the explosives beneath the House of Lords, but the plot was discovered and Guy Fawkes was caught and arrested. And executed.

To celebrate the failure of the plot, people lit bonfires around London. And it soon became an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot’s failure – and became, as you may have guessed, a focus for anti-Catholic sentiment.

Today the anti-Catholic sentiment is pretty much gone. The bonfires are still there, but the effigies that are burned tend to be today’s political leaders. This year, at one of Britain’s biggest Guy Fawkes celebrations in Lewes, effigies were burned of British Prime Minister Teresa May and US President – elect Donald Trump.

The winners are: RFI Listeners Club members Solomon Fessahazion from Asmara, Eritrea, Ferhat Bezazel from Ain Kechera, Algeria, and Hans Verner Lollike from Hedehusene, Denmark. From the Kumi Central RFI Listeners Club in Kampala, Uganda, Mark Okurut Ongole is a winner this week, as is Mrs Sabina, from the RFI Friends Radio Club in Naogaon, Bangladesh.

Congratulations winners!

This week’s question ... you'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 9 January to enter this week's quiz. The winners will be announced on the 14 January 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:

english.service@rfi.fr

or

Susan Owensby
RFI – The Sound Kitchen
80, rue Camille Desmoulins
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux
France

or

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.

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