Interviews

Lib Dem MEP and staunch Remainer Catherine Bearder is taking part in a Q&A session after a showing of the film Postcards from the 48% at the Dinard Film Festival on Saturday. Connexion has interviewed her.

Banksy – the secretive England-based street art superstar – was partly inspired by Blek le Rat, real name Xavier Prou, 68. The Frenchman, who Connexion has interviewed, developed a stencilling style and adopted the rat as a “trademark” image in his art. Images of Blek's work in this article are by Sybille Prou, or supplied by Le MUR de Rennes.

Jean Yves Fauste explains how a convivial chat between two friends prompted the launch of an award-winning artisanal beer business

Artist Pascal Convert is known for works that reveal shocking aspects of modern history – but, he tells The Connexion, he does not set out to upset

The Mirazur in Menton on the French Riviera came top in this year’s The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, a respected listing based on an international poll of chefs and critics. Connexion interviewed its chef Mauro Colagreco.

Forty-five years ago, a 3.2million-year-old skeleton was found in southern Ethiopia that changed our understanding of human evolution forever. Paleontologist Yves Coppens was one of the team that found her. Here, he tells The Connexion about his career

Farmer Robert Rogers tells Connexion his is a tough line of work, not helped by regular ‘farmer bashing’ in the media

Record-breaking French freediving champion Guillaume Néry discusses multiple threats to the world’s oceans – and how we can save them – with Jane Hanks

Karine Loiseau, owner of France’s oldest dry pastel-making company explains what goes into making the paint sticks by hand in 2019

Englishwoman Linda Jackson is helping Citroën celebrate its centenary from a position of power. The Connexion talks cars with the former accounts department worker