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Born in France, J.S. Cartier emigrated to the USA in the Fifties. After serving in the US Army, he studied painting at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford on the GI Bill, then returned to New York to pursue a painting career until about 1970, when photography became his primary medium. From 1971 to 1977, he curated shows of many young French photographers for the French Cultural Services in New York . Cartier has since carried out several projects: "Natural Landscapes of New York City" (1980-84); "New York - Visual Chaos" (1984-90). During the same period, he undertook a photographic survey of the traces of the First World War still remaining in France and Belgium, which several grants enabled him to carry out full-time from 1990 to 1993. In 1997, he began a new photography project, supported in part by the French Ministry of Culture, on the Laroche-Migennes railyards. In 1998-99, he photographed the old city of Auxerre and sought in Brussels, Belgium (1999) to integrate examples of Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture with their modern surroundings. In 2001 Cartier photographed the interface between the countryside and the city of Auxerre, France. In 2005, he undertook a project on the traces of World War II in Russia. In 2010, after a hiatus devoted to writing and cataloguing his prints, he resumed a photography project on the town of Brienon, near his home.
Cartier usually works in the 4"X5" format but has used the 35mm camera for selected projects.
EXHIBITIONS : (Partial Listing)
(* One-person shows)
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Midtown Y Gallery
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New York, NY, USA
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1976
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ICP (student gallery)
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New York, NY, USA
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1976
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PhotUnivers (US & USSR Show)
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Bièvres, France
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1976
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Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery
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New York, NY, USA
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1977
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Foto, Ltd.*
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New York, NY, USA
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1978
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Olivier Messiaen Festival *
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Parowan, UT, USA
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1978
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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New York, NY, USA
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1978
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| Port Washington
Mediacenter *
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Pt Washington, NY,USA
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1978
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| Lockport Museum
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Lockport, NY, USA
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1978
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| Cooper-Hewitt Museum
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New York, NY, USA
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1978
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| Daniel Wolf Gallery
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New York, NY, USA
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1981
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| Midtown Y Gallery
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New
York, NY, USA
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1981
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| Pittsburgh Fimmakers
Gallery *
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Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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1982
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| Palais des Beaux-Arts
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Charleroi, Belgium
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1982
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| The Arsenal Gallery *
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New York, NY, USA
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1982
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| The Photography Place
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Philadelphia, PA, USA
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1983
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| Witkin Gallery
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New
York, NY, USA
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1984
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| The Urban Center *
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New
York, NY, USA
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1984
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| Berner Photogalerie
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Bern, Switzerland
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1984
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| Limited Art Editions
Gallery * |
New York, NY,
USA |
1984 |
| Focus Gallery
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San
Francisco, CA, USA
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1985
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| The Urban Center
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New
York,
NY, USA
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1985
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| The Arsenal Gallery
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New York,
NY, USA
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1985
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| Bronx Museum of the
Arts
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New York,
NY, USA
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1988
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| Palais du Tau (Mai de
la Photo)
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Reims, France
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1989
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| Espace AGF
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Reims, France
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1990
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| Galerie le Réverbère
2
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Lyon, France
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1991
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| Historial de la Grande
Guerre
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Péronne, France
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1993
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| Centre Saint-Exupéry
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Reims, France
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1993
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Imperial War Museum
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London, UK
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1993
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| Musée de l'Ardenne
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Charleville, France
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1994
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| Musée Rimbaud *
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Charleville, France
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1994
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| Galerie Opera *
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Ostrava, Czech R
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1995
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| Musée Saint-Germain *
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Auxerre, France
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1996
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| Médiathèque *
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Epernay, France
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1995
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| Espace Camille Claudel
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Saint Dizier, France
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1995
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| Mois de la Photo
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Auxerre, France
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1996
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| Centre culturel
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Villefranche sur Saône, France
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1996
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| Galerie Abélard
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Sens, France
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1996
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| Musée Saint-Germain *
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Auxerre, France
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2000
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| Maison des
Photographes
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Paris, France
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2000
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| The Gallery of
Photography
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Dublin, Ireland
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2000
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| The Ulster Museum
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Belfast, N. Ireland
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2000
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| Espace Van Gogh
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Arles, France
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2000
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| Musée Saint-Germain
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Auxerre, France
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2001
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| Centre de la
Photographie
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Lectoure, France
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2001
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| Museo de Arte Moderno Tertulia |
Cali, Colombia |
2001 |
| Urbi & Orbi Biennal 0 |
Sedan, France |
2001 |
| Urbi & Orbi Biennal I |
Sedan, France |
2002 |
| Galerie Philippe Gelot |
Paris |
2002 |
Museum Raversijde
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Ostend, Belgium |
2004
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| Transphotographiques
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Lille, France |
2011
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COLLECTIONS
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Brooklyn
Museum, New York City; Museum of the City of New York, New York City; Museum of Modern Art Lending
Library, New York City; New York City Department of Parks &
Recreation; The Free Library, Philadelphia; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Musée français de la Photographie, Bièvres, France; Musée
Saint-Germain, Auxerre, France; Centre culturel, Villefranche, France; City
Library, Talant, France; BDIC/Musée d’Histoire contemporaine, Paris; private collections.
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CURATORSHIPS |
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"Kertész"; "Demachy";
"The Viva Group"; "Younger French Photographers" (New York 1971-77); "American Photographers and the European Landscape" (David Avison, Paul Caponigro, Lynn Geesaman, Marilyn Bridges, Brian Rose, Stephen Shore), Museum of Fine Arts, Reims, France, 1994.
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GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS |
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New York State Council on the Arts, 1977-78; International Center of
Photography, NY, 1977; Committee for the Visual Arts, NY, 1982; Ansel Adams Workshop, 1983; Robert Rauschenberg Change Grant, 1984; Lee Krasner-Jackson Pollock Foundation Grant, 1986; Leverhulme Trust Grant 1991; several U.S., French and Canadian public and private grants 1991-1999.
Senior Research Fellow, King's College, London U., 1992-93
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PUBLICATIONS |
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New York Times; American Photographer; Art in America; Zoom; PhotoRevue; London Times; The
European; L'Express; Le Monde; LIFE; American Heritage; ArtPress; Photographies Magazine; Contretype; Nouveau Quotidien; Libération, The Irish Times, etc.
Books: "TRACES OF THE GREAT WAR" (hb & sb bilingual
editions)
Marval, Paris (1994). French Academy award (1995).
"LES ÉTOILES À L’ENVERS – NEW YORK PHOTOROMAN" (Actes Sud 2006).
A photo-novel with French text by Pierrette Fleutiaux.
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LECTURES, SYMPOSIA, ROUNDTABLES |
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Nikon House, New York, 1980; New York
University, 1990; Historial de Péronne, France, 1995; 30X40 Club, Paris, 1995; Carcassonne/Toulouse
University, France, 1996; Landscape Project, Auxerre, France, 1999; "Archaelogy & Armed Conflicts" Symposium, Caen Memorial, France, 2009.
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MEDIA COVERAGE |
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TELEVISION (FRANCE) :
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FR3 Reims/Boudet
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1989
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FR3 Nancy/Dominique Petitcolas
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1991
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FR3 Amiens/Stéphane Lippert
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1991
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FR3 Reims/Michel Barthen
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1991
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FR-3 TV (Reims)
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1994
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TELEVISION (GERMANY) :
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SUDWESTFUNK (Baden-Baden)"Ebbes"/Elisabeth
Weber
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1991
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TELEVISION (IRELAND) :
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Breakfast Television (Dublin)
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2000
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GMTV (Belfast)
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2000
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TELEVISION (UNITED KINGDOM) :
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BBC Choice (Digital)
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2000
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RADIO :
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FRANCE-CULTURE; WFLN (Philadelphia, USA); RADIO-FRANCE Alsace; RADIO-FRANCE Nancy; RADIO-FRANCE Picardie;
RADIO-FRANCE Champagne/Ardenne; WHYY "Fresh Air" (Philadelphia,USA); FUN RADIO
(Reims, France); RADIO-FOURVIERE (Lyon, France); EUROPE 2 (Forbach,
France); RADIO-CALADE; (Villefranche s/Saône, France); RADIO-FRANCE (Auxerre,
France); BBC WORLD SERVICE;
RADIO ULSTER (Belfast, N. Ireland); RADIO BLEU (Auxerre, France)...
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