The Francophone Public Media celebrate Francophonie Day

Radio-Canada :

With his show tell me what you read, Karyne Lefebvre proposes each week to dive into the heart of the literary universe of an author. Here, it is with Rodney Saint-Eloy that she talks. He is publisher and holds literature in esteem, a means for him to transform reality, to embellish it. He affirms that he owes this love of the verb to his grandmother Tida, who made him read Psalm 23 of the Bible.

In this program, he also returns to his first guides: Corneille, Aeschyle and Racine, but also to his influences: Gaston Miron, whom he calls his ” haitian brother », and Aimé Césaire. Author Kevin Lambert and poet Louise Dupré make a surprise appearance, much to the delight of this member of the Académie des lettres du Québec.

At the end of last year, during They made 2022the formidable host Marie-Louise Arsenault offered five major interviews with personalities who distinguished themselves during 2022. Gallimard’s Poésie collection, thus becoming the first woman to be published there, and on the prestigious Apollinaire Prize, considered the Goncourt prize for poetry, which she received in 2022. This “poetry rockstar” also talks about her inspirations youth, talks about his love for Anne Hébert and Saint-Denys Garneau and answers the end-of-year questionnaire.

RTBF :

In their evening show, last February, Julie Morelle and Himad Messoudi debated around the theme: “ Orthographic fossa: is it serious? They had invited Dan Van Raemdonck, professor of linguistics at ULB and VUB, Anne Dister, professor of linguistics at Saint-Louis University and Arnaud Hoedt, actor and former professor of French.

H-hour, it’s the crucial hour: the one that changes your destiny and plunges you into adventure and the unknown. Jean-Louis Lahaye has, among other things, studied the found manuscripts of Céline. It is 3:15 p.m. on a summer day in 2021 in Nanterre. A man, white shirt and sneakers, walks painfully in front of a soulless modern building where only the sign on the facade ” Ministry of Interior » sets it apart from the other buildings on the street. It is not easy to access the building when you take 3 big bags with you. Outside, passers-by pay no attention to this man. Nobody recognizes him. In Paris, however, certain circles have only been talking about him for a few months. He is at the center of a case which all the newspapers have made their headlines. Let’s relive this H-hour with him…

RTBF has also devoted a series of podcasts unpublished at Franquinone of the greatest figures in comics, the father of Spirou, Gaston Lagaffe and the Marsupilami.

RTS The 1st:

How to defend French and the freedom of the press throughout the world, this is what Anne-Cécile Robert, international president of the Union de la Presse explains.

Francophone (UPF) and director of publishing and international relations of the journal The diplomatic world at the microphone Antoine Droux in his program Médialogues. She describes the renewed objectives of the NGO, namely the defense of French and the freedom of the press. With the participation of Jean-Philippe Jutzi, president of the Swiss section and international vice-president Europe of the UPF.

Every week with Say why ?, Lucas Thorens seizes on a theme and dissects it thanks to one or morexperte to finally answer the question “ Why “. So: why the French language. With Mathieu Avanzi, professor at the Center for Dialectology and the Study of Regional French at the University of Neuchâtel.

In the French language, whether it is rolled at the end of the tongue, whether it is scraped at the back of the throat or erased, the sound “R” is a strong marker of the evolution of our language. Pauline Seiterle met Andrès Kristol, former professor of French language history and Gallo-Romance dialectology at the University of Neuchâtel, now retired from his summer show The great outdoors.

Overseas The 1st :

With his album Island and the concerts that follow, the Martinican pianist and composer Maher Beauroy diffuses a jazz at the crossroads of the sounds of his native country and Algeria. With the high point, a tribute to the writer Frantz Fanon who also bridges the gap between the two cultures. Meeting with an inspired musician, in the hollow of The Ear is bold presented by Patrice Elie dit Cossaque.

Author of Rain and wind in Télumée Miracle, Simone Schwarz-Bart lived with André her husband, Prix Goncourt 1959, who died in 2006, a literary adventure that still continues. They each wrote seminal novels about slavery and the Holocaust. A series of interviews in three episodes at the microphone of Cécile Baquey.

Radio France International (RFI)

► In person(s) : “There is no rainbow in paradise”, the slave trade in a griot language​​​​​​

In this book, Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry explores the past and present of Chad, his native country. Slave trade, colonization, world conflicts and coups d’etat which will disrupt the democratic aims of independent Chad, until the rise of the jihadists of Boko Haram, 200 years of history are highlighted by the Chadian-Swiss author .

Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry is a Chadian-Swiss author. He recounts the slave trade inThere’s no rainbow in heaven, published by Hélice Hélas.

Presentation: Pascal Paradou

Directed by: Guillaume Ploquin

► In G major : from Camille Saint-Saëns to Hanoi with François Bibonne

To evoke Vietnam is often to summon war or to wake up the rice fields. If so, too often. Even here, Vietnam regularly oscillates between the tourist brochure and the Story of Uncle Ho.

In G Major has just discovered a marvel of documentary titled Once upon a bridge in Vietnam, translated as Once upon a time there was a bridge in Vietnam. And that is a nice start to the score. Once upon a time there was a young man on this bridge, with his love for classical music in his right hand and his love for his Vietnamese grandmother in his left hand. There’s a desk in the air. For when he animates his arms, Francois Bibonne becomes the conductor of a different look on this land. The idea being to build a bridge between French-speaking Vietnam and a Camille Saint-Saëns who has his museum in Saigon…

Presentation: Yasmine Chouaki

Directed by: Laura Pinto