English Talk Radio – June 27

June 24th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Features, Interviews

In the final English Talk Radio before the summer break, guests include Kristine Minski, talking about global currency markets and Bertrand Tappaz, talking about the history of 90.8 Radio Campus Grenoble.

English Talk Radio meets GGSB

June 22nd, 2010  |  by  |  published in Features, Interviews

The June 13 English Talk Radio took place at Grenoble Graduate School of Business. The guests are: Thierry Grange, Dean of Grenoble Ecole de Management; Elizabeth Gorilla, Marketing and Admissions Manager; Michelle Mielly, Marketing Programme Director; graduates Beatriz Diez and Denis Coupe; students Ben Pawson, Jay Anandou and Timothée Bardet; and Pat Brans, writer, consultant and time-management guru.

English Talk Radio meets ABC Anglais at Les Petits Bilingues

May 27th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Features, Interviews

The May 21 English Talk Radio show features Helen McEwan of ABC Anglais, and took place at Les Petits Bilingues, Grenoble.

English Talk Radio meets Le Créarc

May 13th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Features, Interviews

The May 7 English Talk Radio show features Anne-Laure Dubois and Marco Andrello of Le Créarc – Centre de Création de Recherche et des Cultures – talking about international theatre in Grenoble.

Starting your own business in France

May 11th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Comment, Features, Info & Advice, Work & Study

Patrick Owen shares his experience starting an English teaching business, becoming an Auto-entrepreneur and dealing with France’s particular administrative complexity and love of acronyms.

French education: more IS better … for a while

May 7th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Comment, Features

In response to criticism of the education system on Grenoble Life and from the Anglophone community in France, Iain Smears mounts a passionate defence of French schooling.

The history of Grenoble in two short blogs (part II)

May 6th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Features, Life & Culture

In the second part of John Lubbock’s brief history of Grenoble he finds himself scratching beneath the surface of the city and discovering a “post-apocalyptic 19th century parallel universe,” among other things.

In safe hands: crèches in Grenoble

May 4th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Comment, Features, Life & Culture

Grenoble Life editor James Dalrymple blogs on his experience with French childcare in Grenoble and the difficulties getting that all-important place at a crèche.

The history of Grenoble in two short blogs (part I)

April 30th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Features, Life & Culture

Want to impress your friends with your knowledge of Grenoble’s past? John Lubbock has condensed the history of the city into two short blogs so that you can show off about how much you know.

English Talk Radio – April 11

April 19th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Features, Interviews

The April 11 English Talk Radio show features Trudi Penkler, a psychologist, psychotherapist and ‘Intercultural Consultant’ with her own practice, Active Adaptation Counselling, in downtown Grenoble. The discussion is about third culture kids, particularly teenagers …