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You can go with the French people's fascination with their President's wife, a former model turned singer. She is in every issue of Paris Match.

There's sooo much about France that you could choose to focus on:

French cuisine,

French history (steer clear of the Revolution though, that's a bit hard for a 3-min podcast),

Carla Bruni (as the first answerer has said),

French films,

Le Festival de Cannes (Cannes Film Festival)

These are just a few ideas, but that's only the tip of the iceberg!

Have fun with whatever you choose.

Carla Bruni? French cuisine and eating habits?

Carla Bruni is not french culture.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_fran%C3%A7ais...

try tele-francais its like a french version of seseme street. I don't particularly know any newscasts but tele francais is quite cool. we 've watched it in my french class since freshman year.