Would you like to travel on the steam trains that still circulated in Paris in the 1930s? Inaugurated in 1852, the railway line of the small belt which circled Paris was closed to passenger traffic in 1934, then to freight trains in the early 1990s. “.
The sounds of diesel trains were recorded in the 1960s by Guy Villette, these are part of Olivier Villette’s archives. All other sounds recorded by contributorslisten to the world : Michel Créïs, sound engineer and Irène Berelowitch, journalist and radio author. This episode is a rerun from 05/30/2015.
Both a radio program broadcast every Sunday in RFI’s news bulletin and a participatory platform, Listening to the World lets people hear the cultures of the world through everyday sounds. Hundreds of programs can be listened to as podcasts on this page, while the evolving platform www.ecouterlemonde.net offers sound postcards and recordings. To date, 245 sound recordings are available for free access.