Collection:LPB

Genre: French, Interview

Place Covered: Dakar, Senegal, Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 1988-02-07

Duration: 00:25:30

Subjects: French language | French-speaking countries | Educational television programs | Louisiana Public Broadcasting | Senegal

Contributors:

• Fontenot, James Host
• Martin, Kay Interviewee

This episode of the series “En Francais” from February 7, 1988, features James Fontenot’s interview with Dr. Kay Martin, a French professor at LSU and the chairwoman of the board for the Louisiana Educational Television Authority. She discusses: her recent trip to an International Francophone seminar on educational television in Dakar, Senegal, on behalf of Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) and the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana (CODOFIL); the programs of the Agence de Cooperation Culturelle et Technique, the Francophone agency that sponsored the seminar; and her experience of the Senegalese culture and landscape.