Club 9516/The Sound Kitchen 10 January 2010

Article published on the 2010-01-10 Latest update 2010-01-29 10:39 TU

This week's guest on the Club 9516 Sound Kitchen is singer Madeleine Peyroux. You'll hear music from her new album plus her favorite songs ... and of course, the news quiz.

Hello everyone, and happy 2010 from your new Club 9516/The Sound Kitchen host, Susan Owensby, and all of us here in the RFI English language service.

Here’s this week’s quiz question: 

On 30 December the first Indonesian President to be elected after the fall of General Suharto died. He also headed the Nahdlatul Ulama, the country's largest Muslim organisation, which defended a traditional, tolerant form of Islam. This man was admired for his broad-minded approach to religion and politics … but his presidency ended amid unproved charges of corruption. Afterwards support for the party he founded, the National Awakening Party (PKB), declined to only five per cent in the 2009 general election.

Who was Indonesia’s first president - after Suharto, that is - and by what nickname was he known?

Send your answers by Monday 8 February  to:

Susan Owensby

Club 9516 The Sound Kitchen

BP 9516

75016 Paris, FRANCE

Or via e-mail:

[e-mail]

The answer will be read on the 14 February show.

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On the Club 9516 Sound Kitchen, we’ll be trying out some new recipes … let’s cook up some essay contests!  Don’t let the word “essay” scare you off – I’m not grading them, after all – I just want to hear your thoughts on:

• ·2010 New Year’s Resolutions – have you EVER kept a New Year’s Resolution?
• ·What would you put in a 2009 time capsule – what would you seal up in a box to be opened in 100 years, which would epitomise the past year?
• Your favourite bad joke;
• Your favourite recipe (but it has to be simple enough to read on the air);
• Your favourite proverb.

For your essays, write me at [e-mail]  or, of course via “real” mail at

Susan Owensby

Club 9516 The Sound Kitchen

B.P. 9516

75016 Paris

FRANCE

Be sure you include your address and a phone number if you can. I’d like to call you – and maybe put you on the air!

I look forward to hearing from you!  Susan Owensby