Interviews

Jane Hanks talks to author Carol Drinkwater about the joys of living in France

The government is dedicating €100 million a year to ‘transform’ healthcare. Oliver Rowland spoke to Dr Jean-Paul Hamon, leader of the Fédération des Médecins de France, who doubts it will make a difference. His members are médecins libéraux, that is GPs and specialist doctors in independent private practice

Popular scientist and environmental lobbyist Hubert Reeves is a key public face of ecology in France. Jane Hanks spoke exclusively to him on a wide range of subjects, from astrophysics to airports

Samantha David talks to Zahia Ziouani about being in charge of an orchestra and taking classical music into prisons

Tracy Chevalier is one of the most popular contemporary novelists in both France and the UK. On one of her frequent visits across the Channel, she told Jane Hanks about her French roots and writing

Samantha David talks to actress/singer Sarah Tullamore about her one-woman show and how to please Anglo/French audiences

Samantha David meets British stand-up comedian Paul Taylor, fast becoming well known in France for his hilarious commentaries on life in Paris

Natural history lovers seeking a day of animal magic should visit Deyrolle in Paris. The owner talks taxidermy and tomatoes with Samantha David

The far-left Trotskyist party Lutte Ouvrière (Workers’ Struggle) has had a candidate in every presidential election since 1974, gaining 5.8% of the vote in the first round in 2002 with the iconic Arlette Laguiller (the first woman presidential candidate for France). Last year it gained just 0.65% at the same point. Connexion asked its 2017 candidate Nathalie Arthaud if the party has a future...

War photography means living with monotony and fatigue as well as a real possibility of death; two photographers tell writer Gary Lee Kraut why their images are worth so much