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France Culture: New radio adaptation of "Cigars of the Pharaoh" under way!

jock123
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#1 · Posted: 9 Feb 2016 10:45
The new French-language adaptation of The Cigars of the Pharaoh (which was first mentioned here last July) began last night (Monday 8th February 2016) on radio station France Culture.

Featuring the stellar acting talents of the world-renowned theatre company la Comédie-Française, and with music performed by l'Orchestre National de France, this co-production by France Culture and Moulinsart is a very prestigious event (a British comparison would be the BBC getting the Royal Shakespeare Company and the London Symphony Orchestra to do radio Tintin), and is just the first in a proposed series of adaptations of the works of Hergé.

Scripted by Katell Guillou, a respect playwright in her own right, and who previously adapted Joan Sfar's Le Chat du Rabbi (The Rabbi's Cat) for the radio in 2013, the story has been serialized as a five-part adventure. Episodes will be broadcast every night this week.

Noam Morgensztern plays Tintin, with Jérémy Lopez as Snowy (played in much the same way as he was by Andrew Sachs in the BBC series, as a voice with "doggy" characteristics).

The production is the first of a series, which will include adaptations of The Blue Lotus, The Seven Crystal Balls, Prisoners of the Sun, The Calculus Affair and The Castafiore Emerald.

You can listen (in French, of course!) to the episodes online (I don't know for how long they will be available).

Les Cigares du Pharaon
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5

They are running a supporting documentary series, presented by Renaud Nattiez, about the lasting appeal of the Boy Reporter under the title Tintin, encore et toujours. You can listen to that by using te following links.

Tintin, encore et toujours
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5

You can also listen to an episode of the discussion programme Le Rendez-vous du médiateur, in which the director Benjamin Abitan talks about the production, and how they went about bringing the serial to the airwaves.

Le Rendez-vous du médiateur
Tintin sur France Culture avec la Comédie Française et l'ONF
illustration inc
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#2 · Posted: 12 Feb 2016 10:27
Excellent @jock123 A perfect way to brush up on my rubbish French!

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