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Sophie Ouimet
The Press

Portray Riopelle

Journalist and host Stéphane Leclair followed in the footsteps of painter Jean Paul Riopelle, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday next year. And when we say he followed in his footsteps, that’s no exaggeration. To record his podcast, the journalist went to the very places where the painter lived: from Montreal, where he grew up during the Great Darkness, to France, where he spent 25 years, via Nunavik then the Ile aux Oies, where he ended his life. Throughout these peregrinations, we meet implicitly people who knew or admired Riopelle: his last companion, Huguette Vachon, his daughter Yseult, the painter Marc Séguin… We feel Stéphane Leclair’s passion for his subject, a passion he manages to transmit to us brilliantly over the seven episodes of this OHdio podcast.

On my voicemail

Five leading women, one voicemail. This is the concept of this podcast presented on the Radio-Canada OHdio broadcasting platform since the beginning of September. In each episode, fansrelatives, friends or former colleagues leave messages to five women who have marked the showbiz Quebecers: Julie Snyder, Mariana Mazza, Mitsou Gélinas, Anne Dorval and Chantal Machabée. Beyond the reactions that these messages arouse – sometimes funny, often touching –, we learn a lot about the career and the life of each one. An original way to look back on their feats of arms, but also to discover them as the women, mothers and friends they are in real life.

I made a human

There are as many babies as there are ways to deliver them! And that’s exactly the subject of comedian Gabrielle Caron’s podcast, which receives women who talk about their childbirth. The series has just been enhanced with a season, where the host notably receives Valérie Roberts, who talks about her planned cesarean — and her bittersweet experience with pregnancy —, Julie Ringuette, who tells why she absolutely wanted to give birth at home, in her bath, while Marina Orsini reveals her thoughts on her role as a mother. It also addresses more delicate subjects, such as perinatal bereavement. These new episodes are in addition to those of the two previous seasons, as well as the book – of the same title as the podcast – published by Gabrielle Caron, which reports on her own experience of motherhood. A QUB radio podcast.

Archetypes

The “archetypes” put us in a box, from which it is sometimes difficult to extricate ourselves, deplores Meghan Markle in her podcast of the same name, which caused a stir when it was released in August. In each episode, she talks to someone who has managed to free themselves from the label that has been put on them. And it’s not just anyone that the former actress, who recently broke her ties with the royal family, invites to her microphone: first there is the tennis player Serena Williams (also her friend, let’s underline -le), who talks of ambition; Paris Hilton, who talks about her role as babe ; without forgetting an interesting episode with Mindy Kaling, who had two children alone and who defends the role of the eternal bachelor. A series with more depth than one might think, but which is primarily aimed at fans by Meghan Markle.

Elizabeth the First

Would Elizabeth Taylor have been the first influencer, many years before the term was coined? This is the premise of the podcast narrated by Katy Perry and dedicated to the famous actress. Over each of the episodes, which will be ten in number, we trace the biography of the purple-eyed icon. Married eight times, Elizabeth Taylor was notably the first to negotiate the salary of 1 million dollars for a film (Cleopatra). She has also dedicated part of her life to the fight against HIV. However, the parallel with today’s influencers seems a little forced to us, and above all not necessary to pique our curiosity, already well satisfied by the tumultuous life of the actress who died in 2011 at the age of 79. year.