France Dispatch: Stories from the Mountains

11/07/2022 41 min Temporada 3 Episodio 2

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Episode Synopsis

Broadcasting from the French Pyrenees, in this episode I interview local journalists, bakers, fishers, and hoteliers. All of them have one thing in common: human stories. 
This is the second episode as part of the Hello Sonoma Global series in which I am traveling to 3 of Sonoma's sister cities to hear stories and broadcast them at home. While we don't have a sister city in the south of France, this is a new storytelling experience with new voices. Here are a few of them:
Lydia owns and runs the Hotel Vignemale in Gavarnie, France. She grew up in the village nearby and, until she was 18, hadn't spent time abroad. When she did leave, she went to University in the United States and ended up managing facilities for a Fortune 500 company in all of Western Europe. But then, she came back. In this episode, we discuss each of those transitions, as well as the historic village of Gavarnie itself. If you're especially interested, you'll like this video that explains a bit more about its geology as well. 
Sandrine is a journalist at Frequency Luz, a local radio station in Luz, France. Originally from Quebec, she studied journalism and has taken on various roles at the station including interviewer, researcher, and producer. In this episode, we talk about what Frequency Luz does and about the role of radio in the future and beyond.
Special thanks to Sharing Skies for the music in this episode.
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