Hello everyone! Welcome to weekly podcast, published every Saturday – here on our website, or wherever you get your podcasts. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you’ve grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music ..
. so be sure and listen every week. Erwan and I are busy cooking up special shows with your music requests, so get them in! Send your music requests to Tell us why you like the piece of music, too – it makes it more interesting for us all! Responding to this week’s bonus question “Whom do you consider more important – family, or friends?”, RFI Listeners Club member Helmut Matt from Herbolzheim, Germany sent a poem.
Helmut wrote: “I have written a poem about what friendship and friends really are. It's in German and I can't translate the verses - but I can translate the meaning: People come, people go. People's actions move being.
Nothing that exists can exist forever, Big worries become small. We hope for the new year. That everything will be better.
Secret wishes will come true. Peace is coming to earth. Faith in the power of love.
It alone will be eternal. How it creates hope in the heart. Only its power will set us free.
Friendship will only be revealed, When the world leaves you alone. It holds in distress and in danger, And is firm in all times. Life in the world is short.
So let the false friends.
