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This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the winners of the New York City marathon. There’s a listener essay from Mustapha Hassan from Abuja, Nigeria, some great music, and of course - the new quiz question. Just click on the arrow in the photo and enjoy!

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Hello everyone!

Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday at 6:15, 7:15, 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.

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You can also hear our programs on WRMI and WRN. These broadcasters diffuse our programs out of the goodness of their hearts, but unless you tell us how you heard us, we have no way of knowing … so do write and tell us how you listen to us.

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Congratulations to RFI English reporter Laura Angela Bagnetto! Laura Angela just won an incredibly prestigious international journalism award: the United Nations Correspondents Association Bronze Prize for her coverage of Humanitarian and Development activities of the United Nations. She won for her series of reports in Chad in the south with Central African refugees and in Lake Chad (on the Chad side) with Chadian Internally Displaced Persons and Nigerian refugees. Laura Angela is not only a top professional, she’s a woman with a big heart, and we are all so proud of her! Do send a little congratulatory note to her at english.service@rfi.fr – she will so appreciate it! 

Welcome to our new RFI Listeners Club members!Joseph Babatunde Oduntan from Osunstate, Nigeria; Mamadou Alimu Jallow from Serekunda, The Gambia and Haruna Iddrisu from Kumasi in Ghana. So glad you have joined us!

You too can be a member of the RFI Listeners Club – just write me at english.service@rfi.fr and tell me you want to join, and I’ll send you a membership number. It’s that easy.

A hearty welcome to three new official RFI Listeners Clubs! All three are in Murshidibad, India: the United RFI Listeners Club with Debakamal Hararika as president; the RFI Fan Club with Naved Raiyan as president and the RFI World Radio Club with Biswanath Mandal as its president. Welcome!

If you would like to create an official RFI club, or transform your existing listeners club into an RFI club, scroll down for more information.

A warm welcome to Audrey Iattoni (audrey.iattoni@rfi.fr), who is your new contact person for all RFI Club business. Remember to copy me (thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr) when you write her, so that I stay in the loop too!

RFI Clubs, take note: As most of you know, Chrystelle in the Listener Relations department has gone off to pursue new adventures, but before she left she urged Sebastien and I to challenge you to a Club Contest. We decided on a humorous photography competition. This is what you have to do: take a photo of your entire club membership with the RFI banner, doing something in the kitchen, or something to do with cooking … and … make us laugh! So put on your silly thinking caps, get out your pots and pans or whatever you choose, and get all your club members in the photo with the RFI banner … and take a funny picture! The “new Chrystelle” – Audrey Iattoni – has set the contest opening date for 15 January 2018, and she already has the very good camera which will go to the winning club, so start thinking about it now.

The RFI Listener Relations department is asking all you football playing radio fans to send in photos for the “Ma RFI” web page (it’s in French). They want action photographs, not posed team photos. It’s a cool idea – players and playing fields from around the world. Send your action football photos to english.service@rfi.fr, and I’ll send you the link to see the page with other football playing RFI radio fans. Don’t be shy!

It’s time to get your New Year Resolution(s) in!  I’ll put all your letters in a box, and draw them out blindfolded. Well, maybe just with my eyes closed, but you get the point. If your resolution is chosen, you’ll receive a special RFI prize, so start thinking of all the good things you want to do (or be) in 2018.

This week’s quiz: On 11 November, I asked you a sports question: that past Sunday over 50,000 people ran in the 42 kilometre New York City Marathon – the largest marathon in the world! I asked you to send in the names, the nationalities, and the finishing times of the winners in both the men’s and the women’s races.

The answer is: Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya won the men’s race. His time was 2:10:53.

For the women, it was American Shalane Flanagan, at 2:36:53. It’s the first time an American woman has won in 40 years!

The winners are: A countryman of the men’s race winner: Benson Mutoko from Nairobi. There’s Charles Ongole John, the president of the RFI Kumi Central Listeners Club in Kampala, Uganda; Naved Raiyan, the president of the RFI Fan Club in Murshidabad, India; RFI Listeners Club member Mr Riaz Hussain from Chiniot, Pakistan and Shahriar Rahman Sojib from Sirajganj, Bangladesh.

Congratulations winners!

Here’s the music you heard on this week’s program: Francis Poulenc: Waltz for piano in C major performed by Gabriel Tacchino; Rimsky-Korsakov: “The Flight of the Bumblebee”; Johnny Halliday: “On a tous quelque chose en nous de Tennessee”

Have a musical request? Write me and let me know! thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr

This week’s question: You'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 8 January to enter this week's quiz. The winners will be announced on the 13 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.

Here's Mustapha Hassan's essay:

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

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